MERCHANDISER DEVELOPMENT (RATHMALANA)
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Work together with Senior executive/s to meet customer expectations by catering to specific development requirements, supporting the process of commercialization whilst ensuring accurate and timely management of all critical path activities
- Effectively manage the customer development calendar to meet internal / external deadlines, requirements and work on New Development projects for business growth, whilst maintaining cordial relationship with all relevant stakeholders
- Ensure costing, cost re-engineering, BOM, PLM and salesforce updates are completed in a timely and accurate manner whilst ensuring internal earning aspirations are met to support the achievement of set objectives
- Work with the team to build and maintain effective relationships and clear communication channels to ensure timely coordination/ follow up is maintained to meet customer expectations (including visit preparations) is achieved within the stipulated timeframes
- Initiate sourcing of raw materials with the respective Fabric Technologists and negotiate terms such as price, delivery, MOQ/MCQ and greige availability to find the most suited raw material suppliers in order to optimize benefits in line with customer expectations, to secure the order
- Establish strong connectivity between development and bulk especially focusing on the time taken to conduct risk mitigation activities at each stage which is required to ensure product feasibility and due diligence is performed to ensure seamless handover to production
- Coordinate the sample development process, participate in development meetings, whilst following up on Raw material requirements based on the customer request, in order to ensure samples / prototypes are completed and delivered in a timely manner
- Support the colour sample process by updating all relevant information into the system and following up on multiple stages within the process to facilitate timely, accurate and effective completion of samples
- Actively work in collaboration with the team to deliver on lean initiatives and kaizen activities to achieve departmental strategies
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- Degree or Management qualification in a relevant field Professional – Fully Qualified
- 1 – 2 years of relevant work experience
- Prior knowledge in bulk order execution is highly advantageous
- Mathematics background Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Detail oriented and attention to detail
Closing Date: 2023/10/10