Merchandiser, Sourcing & POM (Shipping)

Job Description

Title: Merchandiser, Sourcing & POM (Shipping)

Company Name: Polyconcept SG Global Buying Services B. V. (South Asia)

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master or University graduate in a reputable institution

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): Costing, Experience in apparel merchandising, Experience working for an international buyer

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Provide inputs to BUs on price, quantity and lead time decisions.
∎ Responsible of all samples (Follow up, quality checking and approvals).
∎ Responsible for full order follow up starting from PO until goods shipped.
∎ Conduct ongoing trend research and identify hot products from vendors for the category, give inputs to PD merchandisers on preferred vendors for new product development.
∎ Negotiate price/quantity/ETD by exception when vendors disagree with the initial POs issued from BUs. Validate with sourcing controller and category manager on price discrepancy and validate with BU logistics teams on quantity and ETD discrepancy.
∎ Liaise with BU sourcing controllers to identify potential to improve margins (e.g. price negotiation, changing existing vendors, changing specifications, etc.), When changing vendors for existing products, manage the process to decide on new vendors as well as validating vendor compliance with QA team.
∎ Lead vendor relationship management, identifying the preferred vendor by SKU and consistently tracking their performance based on pre-defined KPI and vendor scorecard.
∎ Coordinate with category managers, vendors, Sourcing, and Operations teams to ensure product development schedules are maintained.
∎ Provide input to build up product specifications and provide a cost engineering recommendation to category director/managers.
∎ Participate in fairs to find new and appropriate vendors and frequently have traveling to visit vendors.
∎ Follow up compliance audit program, inform the vendor about the necessary test, arrange QC Inspectors to pick up compliance test auditing samples according to QE's auditing plan, and counter check the compliance record before QC inspection (RoHS/Cadmium/REACH DoC...etc.).
∎ Negotiate with vendors for better delivery time when necessary. Inform and co-work with other Operations teams for related PO management issues when necessary.
∎ Coordinate the availability of inspection references (PO, Approved samples, checklists, etc.) for use during inspections.
∎ Follow up skip inspection program, update timely with vendor and GIP, follow up vendor's self-inspection result.
∎ Maintain/update GIP /QC Database properly to ensure the data input correctly and timely.
∎ Manage Goods Ready Date according to the PO EFD data in GIP to achieve the best delivery on time ratio, provide PO management training to vendor when necessary, push vendors to book inspection and shipment on time, in case of exception, contact and push vendor and coordinate with BU and shipping forwarder timely.
∎ Manage vendor claims, update timely with BU/GIP.
∎ Accepting/rejecting an order in term of quality in a system for the final QC decision.
∎ Visit factories when necessary for business meeting and capacity audit.
∎ Run Capacity audit at factories.
∎ Track vendor Delivery performance to anticipate delivery issues.
∎ Communicate KPI to vendors on a monthly basis and follow up CAPs from a vendor in order to hit KPI target.
∎ other task assigned by superior.

Additional Requirements:
∎ University Degree or above on Textile engineering or Garment merchandising and related categories on business
∎ English fluent both oral & writing
∎ Confident to speak in front of a large audience
∎ Expert in Excel & PPT
∎ Strong analytical skills
∎ Ability to work independently as well as in a Team/ self-starter
∎ Strong negotiation skills
∎ Customer service minded
∎ Result/deadline oriented
∎ Quick learner and passionate
∎ Able to handle multiple tasks

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 30 Nov 2021

Company Information:
∎ 9 Nov 2021
∎ Polyconcept SG Global Buying Services B. V. (South Asia)
∎ Business : Polyconcept is the world’s largest supplier of promotional products, operating on five continents and selling to over 100 countries around the globe. With main offices in the US, Europe, Hong Kong, Canada and China, the company supplies a wide range of promotional, lifestyle and gift products to several hundred thousand companies ranging from small enterprises to global corporations, through a network of advertising specialty distributors. Promotional apparel is one of the biggest product categories within the group.

Category: Garments/Textile

: For those who are interested to apply, please email your CV to [email protected]