潮州招聘

ob Purpose:

The Merchandise Manager is the local sourcing arm for WSI and is responsible for executing Brand directives in their focus country. They are the primary liaison between the San Francisco based team and the factories, managing seasonal developments, vendor relations and key communications. They work in conjunction with WSI China QA and customer service teams to support Brand and factory needs.


Job Content and Duties:

1. Product Development:
- Work with SF team on seasonal placement strategy to ensure right product, right vendor
- Fully versed on master calendar and all key dates. Alert Sourcing team when falling off calendar.
- Manage spec packet hand off with factories and furniture technicians
- Communicate target costs and sample ETD’s to vendors, and follow up with customer service teams on weekly progress
- Communicate program approval to vendors and ensure that the factory has an MCS and approved color panel before they go into production
- Ensure vendors are staying on track for testing
- Troubleshoot any issues that come up in production and work with factory to ensure on-time delivery and notify sourcing if there are any major delays.

2. Negotiate costs and MOQs
- Partner with SF team and factories to achieve target retails and margins for seasonal developments
- Obtain agreement on initial and reorder MOQs
- Manage quarterly Master Cost/MOQ file with program updates
- Address factory upcharges as they arise and work with the brand to drive agreements

3. Vendor relations and capacity management
- Align with corporate sourcing teams on short and long term sourcing strategies
- Facilitate On-boarding of new vendors
- Create strong relationships with all of our key vendors
- Conduct monthly capacity forecast and scorecard discussions
- Stay on top of factory issues (strikes, holidays, etc) and communicate as needed to the SF team

4. Sourcing
- Consult with SF sourcing team to understand the material/product needs of approaching seasons
- Visit trade shows in Asia to source new factories as well as network within the furniture industry
- Understand where our competitors are producing their product in your country and understand the capabilities of all of our factories
- Provide quarterly updates on your market

5. Development Trips
- Coordinate development trips with corporate sourcing team
- prepare all documents and samples for team’s visit

6. Manage Furniture Technician
- Prioritize and maintain technician schedule across factories
- Monitor performance and develop goals/growth plan

Job Competencies & Experience
Knowledge
The incumbent must have proficient knowledge in the following areas:
- 8 years of practical experience including 5 years of additional management responsibility
- Knowledge of overseas sourcing and product development
- Knowledge of furniture manufacturing operations
- Preferred experience working with or for a Retailer

Skills
The incumbent must demonstrate the following skills:
- excellent interpersonal skills
- team building skills
- analytical and problem solving skills
- decision making 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
- stress management skills
- time management skills

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.