Role Purpose:
To work with the production merchandising team and wider business to assist them on planning, delivering and trading product ranges, tailored to the target customer, establishing and maintaining a clear brand positioning that sets to achieve and exceed sales plans and expectation. Supporting the production merchandiser to manage the critical path and product life cycle, working effectively and efficiently, to ensure a smooth and consistent running of the brands.
Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate the ability to develop good cross-functional relationships at Laurelle; with design, logistics, accounts, warehouse and sales teams.
- Support production merchandiser by helping to develop product which is inline with the customer profile, brand identity and requirements. Assisting on following product development through from initial concept to completion & delivery.
- Responsibility of the management of the critical path, updating and chasing daily to ensure orders run to schedule, anticipating and managing risks and providing the production merchandiser with weekly updates.
- Monitoring of shipment schedules.
- Responsible for raising and maintaining purchase orders and sales orders on Sage & MANU.
- Completing customer contracts when orders are agreed.
- Requesting fragrance documents & maintaining the PIFF for all products on customer portals or on our own system.
- Action and manage customer samples making sure that they arrive in good time and are to the correct specifications.
- Chasing, checking and submitting samples for testing as well as managing the sealing process according to customer requirements.
- Monitoring of sales and production planning on core lines and chasing for repeats.
- Update spreadsheets and databases with the critical order information.
- Monitor the delivery dates and bookings for deliveries to customers.
- Creating and updating the business and necessary departments on internal production requirements.
- Liaising with all necessary departments to ensure clear and accurate sharing of information.
- Prepare information required for internal and external meetings. Take responsibility and accountability for making sure all information is accurate & follow up with implementation and tracking of relevant actions.
- Work with own initiative and as part of the wider team.
Skills, qualifications and experience:
- Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent, in academic or fashion subject and or relevant experience.
- Competent numerical skills.
- Good working ability with relevant IT systems (Microsoft Office).
- An understanding of the retail market, fashion trends and brand positioning, both UK and internationally.
- Strong interpersonal skills, a good assertive influencer with the ability to communicate and present, competently and clearly.
- Strong organisational and task management skills, with the ability to manage own workload.