-Minimum of 6 years solid merchandising experiences in knit & woven under a buying office/trading company or factory, can work independently with US Designers and merchants through product development and execution of order placement programs
- Good fashion sense and keen understanding of US market trends in knit & woven
- Good knowledge of vendors and factories
- Good communication skills with strong command of English and Chinese
- Strong ability to positively interact with people; detail-oriental, work well with teams
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Product Compliance Program Manager is responsible for managing Product Compliance, Chemical management program including RSL/MRSL management and wastewater management, leading company wastewater and product safety compliance standards throughout the global manufacturing base, with the goal to meet customer requirements, reduce/eliminate risk to workers and consumers, the environment, the company and brands.
【Product Compliance Program Development and Deployment 】
• Manage corporate Restricted Substance List (RSL) policy implementation and product compliance failure remediation with vendors partners and internal business partners, supplier product compliance tracking and reporting.
• Manage corporate Chemical Management Policy deployment, aligning with industrial practice and meet the requirement.
• Support research on sustainable chemistries or green chemistry alternative if require
• Develop branded fiber process to ensure the brands meet global labelling regulation and requirements
• Develop global labelling manual and work with internal stakeholders to create standard operation process
• Support claims validation for wholesale account requests
• Track Wastewater global regulation and industrial standard, meeting country regulation and align with industrial practices.
• Lead the remediation if any Wastewater compliance failure, find out the root cause by partnering with vendors, provide leadership and make recommendation to minimize the business impact.
• Assess international market program requirements and establish future process to support business growth
• Advance Global Product Compliance Team goals and objectives through additional projects and cross-functional support as needed
【Supply Chain Product Compliance and Wastewater Management Performance Assessment】
• Execute the Chemical and Wastewater Management assessment tools (Higg FEM) to supply chain, driving the completion and verification rate improvement to give visibility of supply chain performance.
• Manage and track factory KPI to measure compliance performance including wastewater discharge permit and support the integration with material sourcing system.
• Conduct onsite factory audits for chemical management, RSL and wastewater compliance when necessary.
【Supply Chain Engagement, Training and Improvement】
• Identify and analyse the performance gap of supply chain to develop required training program, collaborating with manufacturing partners including liaison office material team and production. Provide recommendation to solve vendor's challenge during the program implementation.
• Engage internal and external stakeholders building relationship with the company manufacturing partners and the industry including testing service providers, GIZ fabric and other brands
• Lead vendor meeting to communicate vendor performance and make recommendation of score card improvement.
• Communicate and deliver technical RSL and Wastewater training to internal and external stakeholders, acting as technical center to business partners for product compliance and wastewater requirement.
• On-boarding the new hire from liaison offices and new vendors, introducing of company compliance policy and process
• Manage capacity building programs by collaborating with business partner and service providers, including stakeholders' engagement, program status tracking, make recommendation of improvement, negotiate with vendors or manufacturing partners to adopt required change.
This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.
-Minimum of 3 years solid merchandising experiences in Knits/Woven apparel under a buying office/trading company or garment factory.
-Good knowledge of vendors and factories
-Good communication skills with strong command of English and Chinese
-Strong ability to positively interact with people; detail-oriented, work well with teams
Garment fabric sourcing & development
- inspiration and innovation of fabric trend
- sample management
- mill/factory communication
- fabric testing and compliance
- fabric spec sheets documentation & entry
- collaboration with merchandizing & design team
- color and quality control
Position Purpose:
Plan and manage fabric development thru production process to ensure merchandise meets client expectations regarding quality and delivery.
Measurable KPI’s
• On time Delivery
• Quality
• Fabric sourcing & development (meet client’s requirement & deadline).
Qualifications
• University Graduate with major in Textile and Apparel Preferred
Knowledge and Experience
• 3 years experience in Fabric Merchandising roles within the apparel industry in the US Market
• Knowledge of Fabric production processes is essential, with experience working in a factory preferred
Behavioural Competencies
• Achievement Drive
• Commercial Orientation and Sales Ability
• Customer Service Focus
• Flexible and able to work under pressure
• Interpersonal skills
• Product Acumen and colour sense
Technical Competencies
• Sound PC skills – Word Processing, Excel and Email
• Strong Influencing and communication skills
• Excellent written and oral English language skills.
• Lead associates in hitting sales targets and observing sales budgets, stock & expenses control
• Co-ordinate shop meetings/briefings to communicate and update information
• Motivate associates and enhance team value, uplift team morale and coaching to associates with negative thinking and behavior
• Arrange/conduct just-in-time product training/information sessions
• Strengthen customer loyalty
• Driving all company initiatives (i.e. impact plans)
• Manage retail store operations with company policy and procedures
• Deliver retail sales & profit according to company targets
• Liaise and coordinate among various supporting functions including merchandising, logistics, finance and IT
• Appraise and council team members as required
• Dealing with customer queries and complaints
• To maintain visual merchandising display
• To collect market information
• Delegate duties and responsibilities to assist team members
• Identify emerging high flyers
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Career Growth & Opportunities:
* Develop specialized expertise in Taiwan's retail environment, mastering high-volume operations and dynamic leadership
* Exceptional performers may qualify for expanded opportunities across our retail network, including potential consideration for full-price/outlet store leadership positions when business needs align