General Merchandise Manager
• Over 20 Years of Supply Chain experience with direct experience working in the apparel Finish Goods sector • Over 15 Years sourcing experience with garments and raw materials. • Extensive experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to establish common/ shared goals • Extensive knowledge of Multi category Finish Good Vendors, Production, Capabilities and Costing as well as Quality Assurance in both sportswear and outerwear • Strong leadership, coaching and mentor-ship skills to cultivate a high performing team that meets or exceeds goals • Responsible, ethical, process oriented with strong technical analytical and problem solving, integrity and management skills • Exceptional experience in vendor management, negotiation skills, people management, communication skill, product development, costing, negotiation all gender and fabrication • Leading TNF Sportswear team and urban exploration team in The North Face, Responsible the sourcing for sportswear (Life style and performance active-wear) and outerwear (Urban Exploration) in year 2015 – 2021. • Coordinate with U.S Product team to enhance the business for the collaboration with other brand (Gucci, KAWS, Supreme) across The North Face in Year 2020 • Building sourcing strategy – 1- 3 year sourcing souring plan to fulfill the requirement from the brand, It is including the vendor strategy, vendor capability, transforming, regional diversification – risk mitigation and duty saving opportunities t...etc. • work with vendor for lead-time and capacity planning as well as vendor capacity negotiation • Global travelling including development and production trip in Asia and operation meeting in headquarter • Manage vendor KPI report in terms of region, development capability, capacity, price, product skill, country of orgin, on time performance, quality and compliance...etc
