Senior Merchandiser

Talented Recruitment Specialists · Durban, KwaZulu-Natal

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  • An exciting opportunity awaits an experienced Senior Merchandiser to join a leading supplier in the fashion industry!
  • This is your chance to take the lead in product execution, drive strategic planning, manage teams, and ensure seamless delivery to global buyers.
  • If you're a strong decision-maker with a passion for fashion, production, and delivering results, this could be the perfect next step in your career!

Duties and Responsibilities: Buyer Management & Strategic Communication:

  • Owning complete communication with buyers
  • Understanding buyer expectations, pricing targets, and compliance needs
  • Leading PD meetings, costing discussions, and risk assessment
  • Presenting solutions proactively to buyers for any deviation

Advanced Costing & Price Negotiation

  • Reviewing costing sheets prepared by junior merchandisers
  • Finalizing fabric, and margin structures
  • Leading negotiations with suppliers and buyers to achieve profi table costing
  • Approving bulk bookings within cost targets

T&A Planning & Critical Path Control

  • Creating detailed T&A and ensuring strict adherence
  • Risk-mapping processes fabric, trims, approvals, production
  • Driving cross-functional coordination with factory, production, QA & logistics
  • Escalating delays early with corrective action plans

Production & Quality Oversight

  • Monitoring knitting, dyeing, printing, cutting, sewing, and finishing
  • Reviewing inline quality reports and addressing root-cause issues
  • Ensuring compliance to buyer standards AQL, physical testing
  • Approving pre-production samples and production start-ups

Team Leadership & Training

  • Guiding junior team member
  • Allocating tasks, reviewing work accuracy, and ensuring skill growth
  • Conducting weekly performance reviews and workload planning
  • Building strong communication channels across departments

Supplier & Factory Coordination

  • Maintaining strong relationships with factory , suppliers and customers
  • Evaluating supplier capability, lead time, and performance
  • Identifying new suppliers for cost efficiency and innovation

Shipment, Documentation & Post-Delivery

  • Ensuring on-time shipment with 100% document accuracy
  • Coordinating fi nal inspection, packing, labeling & compliance checks
  • Managing claims, reworks, short shipments & buyer feedback
  • Closing orders with margin analysis and learnings

The Senior Merchandiser ensures

  • Profitability
  • On-time delivery
  • Zero communication gaps
  • Quality assurance
  • Strong team performance
  • Smooth buyer relations
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