Job Description
Focusing on jewellery and stationary for the children's market you will be working with a close team of Production Merchandisers, you will liaise daily with factories in China and Thailand as well as UK Department stores and online clients ensuring a smooth and efficient production process.
This is an outstanding role for a hard working confident communicator with an engaging personality and excellent organisational talents.
Main responsibilities will include:
- Manage multiple lines of product, ordering stock as required
- Maintain or develop critical path on all lines
- Costing multi-faceted products
- Negotiating and confirming final production costs
- Following up production samples with factories
- Checking samples for quality
- Arranging tags/labels - ordering and shipment
- Creating shipping documents
- Communicating with overseas offices to track development and production
- Co-ordinating with designers to ensure all production requirements are met
- Communicating with factories to ensure all documents (shipping/invoices etc) are accurate, complete and received on time
- Entering orders and products onto the software package and liaising with the Accounts Department
- Build strong relationships with customers to ensure a professional delivery process
Person specification:
- Experience working with factories in China and the Far East
- Strong IT skills including excellent Word and Excel (Intermediate/Advanced)
- Excellent communication, both spoken and written
- Knowledge of the production process and its challenges
- Excellent organisation talents
- 2+ years' production experience, preferably within jewellery, accessories or stationery
