潮州招聘

Job Purpose:

The Senior Merchandiser is responsible for executing Category directives in their focus country. They are the liaison between the San Francisco based team and the factories, managing seasonal developments, vendor relations, T&A and key communications. They work in conjunction with WSI China QA to support the US based team and factory needs.

Job Content and Duties:

1. Product Development:

- Work with Merchandise Manager on category strategy to ensure right product, right vendor

- Fully versed on T&A master calendar and all key dates. Alert Sourcing team when falling off calendar.

- Manage Testing of products with factories and protocol adherence

- Communicate target costs and sample ETD’s to vendors, and follow up on weekly progress

- Communicate program approval to vendors and ensure that the factory has the correct approved sample before they go into production

- Troubleshoot any issues that come up in production and work with factory to ensure on-time delivery and notify Sourcing team if there are any major delays.

2. Negotiate costs and MOQs

- Negotiate with factories to achieve target costs for seasonal developments

- Obtain agreement on initial and reorder MOQs

- Address factory up-charges as they arise and work with the brand to drive agreements

3. Vendor relations and capacity management

- Facilitate On-boarding of new vendors

- Create strong relationships with all of our key vendors

- Plan and create strategic vendor development to establish long term business growth

- Stay on top of factory issues (strikes, holidays, etc) and communicate as needed to the SF team

4. Sourcing

- source new products /factories via trade shows and market contacts

- Understand where our competitors are producing their product and the capabilities of all of our factories

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5. Development Trips

- Coordinate development trips with corporate sourcing team

- prepare all documents and samples for team’s visit

6. Liaise with QA team

- Prioritize and maintain inspection schedule across factories

Job Competencies & Experience

Knowledge

The incumbent must have proficient knowledge in the following areas:

- Minimum 6 years of practical experience in Dec Acc products

- Knowledge of sourcing and product development

- Basic knowledge of manufacturing process in the Dec Acc / Tabletop area

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Skills

The incumbent must demonstrate the following skills:

- Good interpersonal skills

- analytical and problem solving skills

- effective verbal and listening communications skills

- attention to detail and high level of accuracy

- very effective organizational skills

- effective written communications skills

computer skills including the spreadsheet and word-processing programs, and e-mail at a highly proficient level

Founded in 1956, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is the premier specialty retailer of home furnishings in the United States and Canada. Our brands are among the best known and most respected in the industry; and we successfully market them through all three major channels — retail stores, catalogs, and the Internet.
We also provide home furnishing categories, including furniture, textiles, decorative accessories, lighting, and tabletop items under the West Elm brand name; bed and bath products under the Pottery Barn brand name; and children's furnishings and accessories under the Pottery Barn Kids brand name.
We operate nearly 600 stores located in 44 states of the United States; Washington, D.C.; Canada; and Puerto Rico.

We established our China branch in 2011, locate in Dongguan and Hangzhou. We are now looking for more talents to join us.