东莞招聘

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 and review the details with the factories

- Communicate target costs and sample ETD's to vendors, and follow up with merchandising team on weekly progress

- Communicate program approval to vendors and ensure that the factory has the correct approved sample 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

- Address factory up-charges 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

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

- 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 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. Liaise with QA team

- Prioritize and maintain inspection schedule across factories

- Monitor performance between Merchandising and QA team

Job Competencies & Experience

Knowledge

The incumbent must have proficient knowledge in the following areas:

- Minimum 8 years of practical experience including management responsibility

- Knowledge of overseas 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:

- 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.