Title: Senior Merchandiser
Company Name: A Reputed Multinational Apparel Sourcing Office
Vacancy: 1
Age: Na
Job Location: Dhaka (Uttara Sector 3)
Salary: Negotiable
Experience:
Fluency in English.
Should have knowledge about ERP/SAP system (internal costing tool).
Development - Monitoring development sample status and assessing factory suitability to make an individual product
Price negotiation - Expertise in "cost to make" and diligent completion of cost sheets; leveraging component dynamics to obtain best price for PG and our customers; ensuring CMs and consumption are both reflective of product type.
Sales contract issuance - Ensuring sales contracts are only after approval of cost sheet, but within 14 days of Purchase Order; upload orders into SAP within 14 days of receipt.
Production Management - Ensuring suitable capacity is booked and the production plan is in place to achieve delivery; ensure PPM includes a full understanding of technical standards, that materials and trims are ready, and Technical Risk Assessment has been completed
Delivery Management - Monitoring production allocated to our factories and closely managing the critical path and the achievement of milestones (approvals, testing, fabric in house, inspection); coordinating activity with Fabric, Technical and QA to ensure OTD and resolving any issue at pace
Trims Management - Ensure trims are sourced from nominated sources where they exist; ensuring trim costs are benchmarked through our Central Procurement Team
Letters of Credit - Monitoring the opening of B2B LCS by the factory and following up with shipping documents and liaising with the bank; mark pro-forma invoice for obtaining the master LC and maintain records of export and order quantities for every order
Supply Chain Management - Ensure our factories have made bookings in line with our customers' forwarders SLAs. Ensure container status and vessel schedule are on track and ensure timely collection of shipping documents (BoL, packing list etc)
Reporting Maintain - an up to date Critical Path tracker for all delivers and manage critical path meetings with customers and buyers. Maintain an accurate and timely report of on time booking and on time delivery.
Team Management - Coordinate activity across Merchandising, Technical, QA and Fabric and guide my Assistant Merchandiser with meaningful and clear tasks
Capacity Management - I track running capacity in my factories and book accordingly; we negotiate lead times with our suppliers on a season to season basis and aim to reduce RO lead times for our customers.
Prepare initial pricing in Internal costing tool/ERP /SAP
Prepare pre-costing in ERP/SAP, including accessories pricing and consumption details
Generate price quotations in ERP/SAP
As per policy.