People Marketing's client, an established, leading key supplier of multi-licensed products to most major UK and European retailers, is looking for an experienced Product Developer / Merchandiser to join their Leicester office. 

This role requires maintaining strong customer and supplier relationships, attending customer meetings and ensuring a smooth handover between departments.  

Product Developer / Merchandiser - The Role:

• Negotiating prices with factories and customers
• From the customer brief, liaise with designers and factories
• Trend research
• Oversea factories sampling & execution of product
• Looking at new product techniques, fabric types and prints
• Ensuring approval process for concepts is approved from buying and licensing
• Managing product development trackers
• Raising orders
• Checking details on customer contracts
• Liaising with factories / in country merchandisers daily, on email & phone with regards to Critical Path order follow up
• Updating and analysing internal and customer critical paths
• Conducting weekly calls with In-country merchandisers, factories
• Managing sample approval – sending lab dips/strike offs/samples to customer
• Coordinating between licensing department and QA/Tech on sample approvals
• Liaising with logistics department to ensure goods are delivered on time
• Liaising with design department, send artworks to factories
• Checking label artworks and giving approvals to factory
• Identifying production issues and dealing with issues may arise
• Ability to read test reports & send production pieces to the lab
• Maintain strong customer, supplier relationship
• Attend customer meetings
• Ensuring a smooth handover between departments

 
Product Developer / Merchandiser - The Person:

• Experience working with Apparel in a similar role
• Experience in Children’s wear, Jersey / Knitted
• Experience in Garment Physical and Chemical testing
• Highly organised
• Ability to work under pressure & cope with tight deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Proactive approach
• Familiar with Microsoft Office packages and Outlook
• Experience in licensing would be a plus

We regret that due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our vacancies, if you do not hear from one of our consultants within 5 days, then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for this role.