Product Assistant

Description

We are looking for an established, highly motivated and passionate Product Assistant to join our in-house “Own Brand” Design Centre team at Footasylum. We are home to multiple brands across men’s, women’s, kid’s and accessories.

This Role gives great opportunity to the right candidate to work on Footasylum’s “own brands” such as Zavetti Canada, KWD, Alessandro Zavetti and many more. This role has excellent progression opportunities.

About You

The successful candidate should have at least 2 years in apparel/fabric sourcing & development experience on both woven and knitwear. You should have knowledge of apparel critical path in terms of lead time and costing awareness and be proficient in Excel. Experience working with EU and South Asia offshore suppliers is preferable.

The Team

We are a rapidly growing team of diverse talented individuals with a passion for all things fashion. Our aim is to help create an environment where you can achieve, progress and develop. You will be supported in your journey, and we will celebrate your progression with you.

The Team functions as a part of the larger Design Centre and we work extremely closely with Apparel Design, Buying and Merchandising.

Responsibilities

• Support Product and Sourcing manager on liaising with all suppliers across certain own brand products groups and ranges to negotiating cost prices, meeting target costs prices and ensuring required margin maintained.
• Responsible for Product line file maintenance to ensure all styles, costing, PO status are most updated.
• Support Product and Sourcing manager for creating internal planners for certain brands and responsible to ensure all POs with the cost price, retail price and ex-factory dates are correctly issued and tracked
• Support factory critical paths maintenance on data collection

• Managing and tracking own brand purchase orders, amending where necessary
• To liaise closely with Suppliers to monitor the development proto sample status for the brands/projects
• Attend Trade Meetings for the business when necessary
• Engage to build strong relationships and work collaboratively with a broad range of business functions including IT, eCommerce, Design, studio, Marketing and Analytics, as well as third parties
• Self-motivated and have good time management with the ability to adapt and work to tight deadlines and delivers results within specified time frames. Ability to react quickly to changing demands and priorities

• Supporting the team in day-to-day admin and ad-hoc duties
• Supporting on the garment factory and fabric sourcing with new supplier and factories in Far East, Asia and Europe according to the brand sourcing strategy – this will require travel
• Control the material master summary and cross costing exercise & material approval.
• Attending U.K and overseas Fabric trade shows to source new fabrics and suppliers alongside the Design Team - this will require travel

Diversity

We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building products and services. We know that this will help us build useful and accessible things which our customers will love. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences.

Recruitment Process

We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit we’ll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role, and to see if we’re a good fit for you.

We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel that this is the opportunity for you.

Please note this is a Head Office based role and the expectation is that you will be able to work from our Head Office based in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.