Senior Footwear Merchandiser

An opportunity has become available in our company for a resilient, innovative, and resourceful merchandiser with specialised experience in footwear. This role involves managing and growing the department, as well as contributing value to our business through effective trend analysis, sourcing, and merchandise procurement.

Qualification and Experience:

· Degree in Fashion

· 5 years’ buying/sourcing experience in footwear

· Must have specialist knowledge on materials and construction of footwear

· Ability to build and present a full style offering during customer range showings

· Computer literacy and proficient use of Microsoft Office programs

· Excellent communication, management, and organisational skills

· Ability to design will be considered advantageous

Duties and Responsibilities:

· Working with an existing supply base as well as sourcing and onboarding of additional factories as needed.

· Ensuring that factories understand and comply with customers’ technical standards

· Understanding the customer/brand handwriting as well as have a commercial eye

· Continual product development, trend research and identifying relevant fashion products that can be customised to fit into the customer handwriting

· Be able to re-engineer and provide adjustment suggestions to help align a style with the customer's target cost.

· Leading the sample development process and compiling ranges together in time to meet customer buying deadlines

· Managing the critical path at a style level: from customer brief through to delivery and ensuring that deadlines are met

· Quality control of all samples. This will apply to developments, QA, fit & bulk production samples.

· Ensuring any testing and compliance requirements are fulfilled

· Manage workload in an organised and timely manner

· Handle quality queries with factories and customers

Detail:

· Remuneration: Negotiable

· Province: Western Cape

· Education level: Tertiary education

· Job level: Senior

· Own transport required: Yes

Email Curriculum vitae to nicola@nicolabouch.com

Pay: R35 000,00 - R55 000,00 per month

Work Location: In person