Assistant Merchandiser

The Company:

An established clothing supplier are seeking an Assistant Merchandiser to join their growing team. You will be working in the Merchandising team with day-to-day admin including ensuring that products meet the required deliver dates, margins & standards. The ideal candidate will have 2-3 years experience in a similar role with strong IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel.

Benefits:

Good Progression opportunities

Annual reviews

The Role:

To raise orders on the internal system and notify country offices / factories as required.

Input data into the internal shipping spreadsheet for the production and warehousing departments.

Manage Customer and Licensor approvals to meet critical path.

Update critical path and send to the customer as required.

Complete customer work books.

Complete customer packaging requirements and send to factory.

Check licensor approvals and upload onto the system.

Order photographic samples with factories & advise Account Manager of agreed dates for delivery.

Liaise with the Licensing co-ordinator regarding the development and approval of licensor packaging.

Check gold seal samples and packaging.

Attend Handover meetings.

Send approved design pack to customer and supplier for their reference.

Check lab dips/strike offs and bulk fabric submissions and send to the customer for approval.

Agree delivery date with customer.

Arrange and lead customer pre-production meetings

Responsible, along with Technical, for Gold Seal checking procedure & authorising shipments.

Ensure available stock is ‘called off’ against agreed time frames.

To ensure all paperwork is kept up to date and filed accordingly.

Skills Required:

Have at least 2 years experience in a similar role.

Have strong IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel.

Educated to Degree level or equivalent.

Has good experience of dealing with High Street customers & Far East factories.

Have a clean driving license & be willing to travel to client meetings.

Good communication, planning & organising skills.

Can work on own initiative and is focused on achieving results.

Can build relationships easily.

Meticulous/pays attention to detail.