We are looking for an established, highly motivated and passionate Product Assistant to join our in-house “Own Brand” Design Centre team at Footasylum. We are home to multiple brands across men’s, women’s, kid’s and accessories.

This Role gives great opportunity to the right candidate to work on Footasylum’s “own brands” such as Zavetti Canada, KWD, Alessandro Zavetti and many more. This role has excellent progression opportunities.

About You

The successful candidate should have at least 2 years' experience in apparel/fabric sourcing & development on both woven and knitwear. You should have knowledge of apparel critical path in terms of lead time and costing awareness and be proficient in Excel. Experience working with EU and South Asia offshore suppliers is preferable.

The Team

We are a rapidly growing team of diverse talented individuals with a passion for all things fashion. Our aim is to help create an environment where you can achieve, progress and develop. You will be supported in your journey, and we will celebrate your progression with you.

The Team functions as a part of the larger Design Centre and we work extremely closely with Apparel Design, Buying and Merchandising.

Responsibilities:

• Liaising with different stakeholders across apparel & accessories products negotiating cost prices, meeting target costs prices and ensuring required margin maintained
• Manage and maintain Master costing Files through weekly Factory file updates and comments
• Brand Price list management ensuring the team is updated with costs as we develop throughout the season
• Manage order placement from buying team consolidating volumes, feeding back final prices and factory agreed ex-factory dates
• Managing consolidation of Seasonal volume order internally and externally communicating with the vendors.
• Attend weekly Brand meetings sharing and receiving feedback across Brands and progress status across departments
• Control material master summary to support on all cross costing exercise & material approval
• Attend all fitting sessions of your allocated Brands support the team on costing visibility and provide suggestion on cost improvement.
• Monitor vendor performance, production capacity and lead time management

Diversity

We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building products and services. We know that this will help us build useful and accessible things which our customers will love. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences.

Recruitment Process

We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit we’ll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role, and to see if we’re a good fit for you.

We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel that this is the opportunity for you.

Please note this is a Head Office based role and the expectation is that you will be able to work from our Head Office based in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.