Merchandiser, Product Development (6 Months' contract)

- Assess product construction based on fabrics, trims and treatments and to build the Smart product to achieve the aesthetics and margin goals

- Call out any risks on quality, capability and capacity at the early development stage and escalate to supervisor

- Assess risks early to pull in Cross Functional Teams and QA expertise and work on solutions

- Obtain and apply an understanding of fact-based costing - Knowledge in assessing material consumption (YY) and basic - understanding of operational break downs of a garment

- Come up with different cost options to achieve the business goals

- Support the coordination of design trip. E.g. Conference room booking before visitor in town, Sample tracking. Post trip follow up with vendors

- Manage tech pack in and out, work closely with vendors on meeting sample follow up.

- Follow up costing with vendors to ensure costing to counterpart is provided in a timely manner.

Coordinate sample tracking

- Update cost sheet per style

- Fill in compliance questionnaires for senior to review

- Work on reporting for senior per business requirement.

- Co-ordinate with cross functional team including fit approval and style duplication per Senior Merchandiser direction

- Learn and work on enterprise software (e.g. Salesforce, Centric)

- Build manufacturing and product knowledge by spending time at the development centers and manufacturing sites

- 3+ years related experience in following up time and actions

- Proficient in Word, Excel and Powerpoint; Power Query/ Slicer is an advantage

- Certificate/Diploma or equivalent

- Good command of written and spoken English