Assistant Merchandiser

The Company:

An exciting opportunity for an Assistant Merchandiser to join large supplier & manufacturer of fashion clothing.

The ideal candidate will be a fashion and merchandising graduate and enjoy working in a fast paced environment, managing products, buyer relationships and critical path.

Excellent training and prospects

The Role:

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• Raising purchase orders with factories
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• Maintaining critical paths to ensure orders are on time
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• Daily communication with assigned customers
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• Raising label orders (care labels, brand labels, price labelling)
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• Working with in house design team
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• Working with buyers to receive packs in time for making sure critical deadline dates are met.
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• Monitoring progress of samples, adhering to design pack requirements
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• Ensure availability of all required samples for buyer’s selection meetings on time.
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• Ensure internal PO is correctly issued, checking garment components & delivery dates.
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• Ensure technologist team fit comments to be able to handover style to garment tech.
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• Managing the critical path, ensuring orders are running on time.
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• To ensure a timely review of account performance with the account manager in which attitude, performance and business projections is evaluated.
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• Other duties as required.
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Skills Required:

Fashion Buying and Merchandise Graduate

Strong attention to detail.

Strong communication skills.

Ability to work alone and as part of a team.

IT Literate, ideally with Microsoft Excel knowledge.

Passionate about working in the Fashion industry