Assistant Merchandising Manager (Garment)

•Fabric sourcing and development
•Coordinate and arrange proto yardage and salesman yardage
•Follow up lab dip and test reports
•Develop fabric trend boards
•Follow up directly with customer's Fabric team
•Monitor and maintain the Fabric Library records
•Set up and run a central fabrics library
•Based on seasonal concepts and theme to recommend fabrics collection to designers/customers
•Manage the sourcing business of the US based customer
•Understand the customer needs and requirements, develop an effective sourcing strategy
•Communicate and coordinate production follow up with the offshores offices
•Build up an extensive network of potential vendors and broaden the product categories
•Assess and evaluate existing and potential vendors; enrich the vendor database in men’s fashion/beauty accessories
•Monitor the whole projects with regular status updates, reporting, system administration, etc
•Build and maintain a strong vendor network for product development and production
•Maintain ongoing and regular communication with vendor contacts including resolution of delivery issues with vendor base
•Review delivery and production issues/options with the merchants/designers as they arise
•Perform other duties as assigned by Management