Sourcing Manager - Apparel (EU buying office) (AGFG-268107) Hong Kong
Sourcing Manager (Apparel)
This is an excellent opportunity to join one of top European retailers as a Sourcing Manager for their sourcing office in Hong Kong. The company has a strong presence all-over Europe and a successful sourcing business for a number of years in Asia. Reporting directly into the Sourcing Director, you will be leading a number of staffs to strategically plan and execute various sourcing operations.
As a senior member of the sourcing team, you will be responsible for:-
- Vendor management
- Analyse, evaluate and improve vendor’s capabilities and performance
- Capacity management
- Expand or consolidate vendor base when appropriate
- Price negotiation and create detailed cost saving plans and methods
- Lead-time negotiation along with regular trouble shooting issues such as deliveries and quality issues
- Communications with head office
- Build up strong communication platform and schedules with buyers and designers
- Constant interaction and consultation on vendor capacity, order allocation etc
- Observe and understand in detail the buyer’s needs and provide as much support as possible
- Lead and supervise the sampling and costing operations and strive for continuous improvement
- Communications with internal teams in off-shore countries
- Monitor capacity of each location carefully
- Analyse, evaluate and propose available capacity for order allocation
- Drive and execute certain projects and strategies together to achieve the common goal
- Communications with internal support teams
- Build trust with the quality and CSR teams in order to ensure all products sourced are done so ethically at the required quality standards
- Assist in certain quality or CSR driven initiatives
- Assist in any quality issues, claims or disputes between buyers/QA with vendors
- Monitor potential quality issues and execute relative solutions to ensure they can be avoided
- Merchandising Activities
- Supervise and lead the merchandising operations, including T&A follow ups
- Follow production plans and WIPs to ensure all orders are shipped on time
- Key Performance Indicator
- Your performance will be evaluated based on price margin, sampling and shipment deliveries, communications between key stakeholders and direct manager, along with quality ‘right first time’ initiative
Requirements:-
- Bachelor degree of above in Textiles / Fashion or related discipline (Masters / MBA an advantage)
- Minimum 12 years relevant sourcing experience from EU buying offices with at least 6 years management experience
- Excellent written and verbal Chinese and English
- Strong knowledge in mens/ladies apparel – must have good knowledge in woven/knit/denim items
- Proven managerial skills
- Ability to work in an extremely fast-paced environment
- Must have strong sourcing experience in China and SEA countries (e.g. Bangladesh, India)
- Experience working in large sized European retailers is a must
- Travelling will be frequent
Interested parties please send your CV in word format to Angela Tsui () for more information.
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