Graduate 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:

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

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