Brand Merchandise Manager ( BMM )
Purpose/Key Responsibilities:
• Responsible for setting strategic direction of suppliers to support brand business objectives and product expectations, including support of material selection of high quality fabrics commercialized into garments.
• Establishes and manages productive supplier relationships, including the timely resolution of capacity and production issues, final price negotiations and long-term sourcing objectives.
• Creates and maintains a portfolio of suppliers able to manage a wide variety of product types. Actively investigates new sources where needs are not met and is able to oversee the successful start-up of new suppliers.
• Responsible for key communications of critical information regarding product and development status to appropriate home office developers, project managers and Country Manager
• Keeps abreast of trends and customers needs while supporting the development of brands / products to meet expectations and measurable goals.
• Ensures internal and external teams are trained on necessary processes, procedures and techniques to achieve on time buy ready/product commercialization and delivery of all samples, strategic management of capacity, and on time delivery.
• Oversees the entire process from product development to customer satisfaction, including quality claims, documentation (export docs, ledger claims, invoicing) and resolution of vendor issues such as payments.
• Contributes to setting country strategies including overall capacity and capabilities by providing accurate data regarding factory capacity, capabilities, lead time, ex-factory dates or other data as required, to analyze factory performance, assess supplier-product match, and make allocation recommendations.
• Identifies product needs not met by source base, investigates new sources and starts-up new factories as needed.
• Provides direction and support for all product developments to assure proper execution of all prototypes, SMS samples and confirmation samples managed by merchandising team; accountable for all development KPI’s.
• Responsible for all styles meeting finalization timelines, including material development completion and material/garment testing and color approvals.
• Work with team and factories to identify issues upfront that may prevent product objectives from being met, including cost targets, quality standards in construction and materials, ease of manufacture, etc.
• Ensures prototypes address desired function, cosmetics, cost, market appeal and manufacturability, including checking for quality, size, fit and adherence to standards.
• Provides direction and support for capacity planning and order management to ensure production performance. Proactively addresses potential delivery problems with supplier management, both factories and T2 suppliers. Drives for effective problem solving and continuous improvement.
• Works closely with Technical Services to ensure smooth and timely transitions from development to production start to shipment.
Knowledge skills and abilities :
• Degree in Business, Manufacturing, or Clothing Technology, or equivalent combination of education and related work experience in the Apparel/Textiles field.
• At least ten years progressive work experience in related field, preferable in multinational company.
• Polished communication and interpersonal skills, and able to give professional presentations.
• Excellent negotiation skills and knowledge of textile business.
• Fluent English (verbal and written), other languages are welcome.
• Good IT including Excel and Word. Comfortable with learning internal Product Data Management systems
Should this position interest you, kindly mail your complete CV by putting BMM as your email subject with PDF file within two weeks to :
recruitment_indo@adidas-Group.com
Your application will be treated in strictly confidential. Only short-listed candidates will be notified
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