Responsibilities

• Responsible for fabric development and counter sourcing of Denim, Woven and jersey knit fabrics

• Maintain effective communication with NY Head office – Fabric procurement and Design team  

• Share company’s seasonal trend deck and fabric wish list by brands to fabric mills and come up with potential new materials, innovations that can align with company’s sourcing strategies, Price and Quality requirements

• Work closely with fabric suppliers to understand their expertise, strength and weaknesses, improving their capabilities and build strong working relationships

• Implement, monitor and review the internal work processes in accordance with the company’s sourcing policies (e.g. BCI, GRS, MMCF),  Oeko-tex,  PLM record

• Collect and review FDS to ensure of correct and complete information, and callout at earliest stage of any quality concerns failing to meet company requirements

• Follow up critical process of sample yardage ordering to ensure readiness for making proto /SMS samples timely

• Assist the colorist and fabric mills in exceptions of color approval – making commercial decision

• Work closely with internal Testing and QA team to solve any fabric issues

• Able to identify risk and provide solutions for potential fabric issues

• Assist in new mill on boarding processes - review mill profile, guide/train mills for fabric SOP

• Attend fabric fairs and regular visit to fabric mills to bring in newness and market intelligence

• Maintain the fabric library with important fabric specs and details. 

• Process knowledge of Spectrophotometer, Sustainability, Material Traceability

 
Requirements

• DSE / Form 5 or above

• For Managerial position, 8 years solid experiences in fabric field or trading company, at least 3 years at supervisory level is required. 

• Sound textile knowledge of fabric construction, production processes (weaving, knitting, dyeing, printing & finishing)

• Well versed with US market and testing requirements  

• Good knowledge & working experiences of Denim is preferred

• Good command of both written and spoken English, Chinese and Putonghua

• Microsoft Office, Outlook are basic, preferable knowing PLM 

• Must be multi-tasking, detail oriented, and have excellent follow up skills, good judgement & decision making (with ability to get to the root cause analysis), communicate effectively with different counterparts   

• Good team player with positive mindset

• Willing to travel

• Less experience will be considered as Merchandiser

Interested parties, please send your resume with expected salary to [email protected]. You can also click on the website www.easyjobhk.com for more details about the company