Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with fabric designation in France headquarters to maintain fabric library with up-to-date material.
- Support and evolve mill strategy to bring positive impact to KIABI business.
- Develop, maintain and upgrade quality mill base to ensure fabric cost efficiency, quality performance and capacity are available to meet s production needs.
- Build direct contact to mill and develop the relationship, promote Raw Material strategy
- Establish and gather KPI to analyze supplier performance, issue score cards
- Collaborate with headquarters to establish procedure/process to ensure development timeline and fabric performance
- Responsible for seasonal Nominated fabric prices/lead time negotiations taking into consideration internal and external dynamics to ensure the best and most stable terms are achieved for Procurement needs
- Maintain a contemporary awareness of industry trends/ activities and provide input to stakeholders relating to sourcing.
- Manage fabric research & development processes to meet customers' expectations and optimize price opportunity by leveraging resources and bargaining power across departments
- Ensure timely, full and accurate communication with all relevant departments on any factors which impact on delivery dates, commitments to customers, quality etc
- Collaborate with all internal parties on raw material inputs for business needs. Identify and engage in all areas to increase efficiencies and reduce leadtimes
Requirements
- 10+ years relevant experience of which at least 2-3 years in Buying Office environment
- In-depth contemporary market knowledge of suppliers, production capacities and capabilities analysis
- Strong understanding of fabric and garment technical details
- Good command of written and spoken English
- A team player & adapt to work in multi-culture environment