Job Responsibilities: 

• Manages strategic fabric development for their area of business
• Support fabric pricing guidelines for lineplan
• Approves final quotation closure of Strategic fabrics
• Establish Fabric development KPIs
• Collaborates with buyer management to align vendor and mill strategies
• Partner with buyer Management, QA and technical teams to resolve fabric or quality issues
• Responsible for managing the costing of Seasonal fabrics
• Support the category fabric platforming opportunities 
• Works with vertical production in their location to ensure proper systems documentation of RDs and prices
• Ensure buyer empowered to approve development, labdips of their area of responsibility
• Manage fabric counter process
• Negotiate fabric costing
• Manage and own risk assessment communication with cross functional teams
• Travel to China factory locations to resolve production issues
• Be sensitive and alert proactively on high risk potential order problem to ensure production on track through regular production meeting and cc mail.
• Negotiate with factories on major/critical order/production details, such as delivery date.
• Track & manage embargo alert to ensure timely delivery with quality products
• Work with Technical, QA and Mill management team to ensure all commercial decision and standards are met

Requirements: 

• Additional Degree / Diploma in merchandising, business administration, supply chain management, or related discipline preferred 
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in buyer communication with at least 2 years in leading a team
• Experience in working with regional Mills 
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross functional leaders and peers to achieve business results 
• Ability to effectively manage and plan resources to achieve goals and support unplanned work
• Demonstrated ability to deal head-on with issues and challenging situations 
• Excellent verbal, presentation, and written skills
• Proficient in MS Office Suite 
• Ability to travel as required
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in Mandarin, Cantonese, English
• Good written & spoken English, Mandarin, Cantonese