Merchandiser / Senior Merchandiser – Capacity (Apparel)
Responsibilities:
- This role reports to the Regional Capacity Assurance Manager – India office
- Responsible to source new suppliers for apparel
- Manage quarterly supplier scorecard process across all suppliers in the region
- Conduct annual supplier relationship meetings along with stakeholders
- Interact with other stakeholders like merchandisers, quality team, suppliers for periodic sourcing gaps
- Understand supply gaps and prioritize search for suppliers within need categories
- Build database of manufacturers with product categories for every country
- Perform trail costings and sampling with suppliers to evaluate price and execution level
- Facilitate collection of capacity data from suppliers to understand available capacity and efficiency levels
- Support the evaluation of supplier performance with existing sourcing team to understand the risk within supplier base
Requirements:
- 5-10 years of work experience in merchandising of different product categories
- Strong pricing and analytical skills
- Strong product knowledge
- Experience in dealing with different product categories will be an added advantage
- Experience of understanding the macro factors effecting costing is an added advantage
- Demonstrate leadership and assertive in nature
- Proven experience of analyzing different price point of suppliers and ability to coach them to be competitive
- Proven record of vendor development
Interested Bangladeshi candidates are requested to send their updated CV along with passport size photograph to KmartHRMGBD@kasasia.com latest by 07 May 2018. The name of the post applied for should be clearly mentioned in the subject line. Only shortlisted candidates will be called for interview. |