Merchandiser

**Function**:
Sample Department

**Designation**:
Sample Manager

**Reporting to**:
Sales Manager

**Direct Reportees**:

- Merchandisers
- Patternists
- Sample tailors
- Helpers

**Role Description**:To obtain information with respect to new product development, ensure that the style is developed for production, the sample is prepared for buyer approval, prepare the optimum bill of material and ensure that the appropriate sample of finished product are handed over to the production team and approved items for production are handed over to the relevant departments for production.

**Responsibilities**:

- Realises patterns as per specifications given by customer or sales manager
- Prepares Bill of material and raises requisitions to stores
- Ensures that the sample product is prepared by the designing team, keeping in mind the product and presents within the required time to the buyer team for approval.
- Follows up customer comments and amendments until final approval of size sets
- Maintains trim cards for all approved trims by customers,
- Records and issues master patterns marked approved dated signed by patternist
- Issues ready patterns to the production team across units
- Issues approved measurement chart to production
- Issues approved sample with all above information to production
- Ensures that all items of production are handed over to the relevant department with appropriate instructions wrt. Style specifications (eg. Zipper lengths, poly & carton dimensions etc.)
- Holds pre-production meeting for each style, for all units handling that style, to discuss critical issues for production (master/ stores/ production/ QC) and maintains minutes
- Maintains styles file for each style with all relevant information from inception to production approval and hand over to production for future audits
- Maintains style files with specifications for all items even if they do not get picked up for production
- Documents the finishing process for the leather quality for each product
- Works along with the stores team to ensure that leather and accessories are procured as per approved specifications given in the trim card
- Works along with the production team to train the operating teams to ensure that the design is understood by all members of the cutting, stitching and finishing teams and the finished product matches the approved design.
- Checks quality of materials and availability before finalizing design
- Ensures proper storage of materials during work-in-progress.
- Ensures all standard operating processes are adhered to at all times
- Ensures safety, health and hygiene standards are maintained in the department at all times.
- Maintains accuracy of BOM to ensure minimum wastage and prevent extra purchase of material during production
- Ensures prompt response to internal customers from self and team at all times to ensure that production is never delayed on account of delay in the design process and all deadlines can be met.
- Ensures regularity, punctuality and discipline of team members.
- Reviews and monitors performance of team members
- Enables training and development of team members
- Keeps self, updated of latest trends, norms and best practices and implements continuous improvement.
- Imparts training with respect to critical points during launch and monitoring implementation upto 1stoutput

**External Interface**:
**Internal interface**:

- Customer representatives
- Contractors
- Directors and other management
- Employees
- Contractual staff

**Preferred Competencies of Incumbent**

**Competencies required**
- **Functional Competencies**:

- Domain knowledge
- Understanding of products and their specifications
- Knowledge of market practices and vendor base
- **Leadership Competencies**:

- Innovation
- Keen to experiment with new ways of working to improve efficiencies of self and team and optimise resource utilization
- Always tries to find creative solutions to problems
- Change Orientation
- Is open to learning new ways of working
- Enables team to migrate to new workflows
- Process Orientation
- Follows processes and ensures team to do the same
- Conforms to standards and policies and ensures team does the same
- Actively practices and promotes the core values and guiding principles
- Teamwork
- Collaborates with others within own team and across functions
- Shares information with seniors, juniors and peers
- Achievement Orientation
- Understands deliverables and goals proactively
- Strives for excellence
- Completes assignments within deadlines
- Demonstrates good communication skills including written skills
- Demonstrates attention to details

Prepared by **Yellow Hat Consultants Pvt. Ltd.** operating under the brand name **PEOPLExcellence**

**Salary**: ₹20,000.00 - ₹25,000.00 per month

**Benefits**:

- Commuter assistance
- Provident Fund
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Kolkata - 700017, West Bengal: Reliably commute or plan