Product And Buying Manager
İstanbul, Türkiye
Managing the buying processes at the collection and manufacturing stages of all ready to wear products and accessories produced domestically and abroad. For this purpose, leading the sourcing, buying, merchandising, fitting and quality assurance teams and managers.• Preparing annual and seasonal product purchase budgets for men's (Hemington) and women's (Knitss) brands and monitoring budget discipline.• To research and evaluate new suppliers and capacities at home and abroad (especially at Portugal) and to keep the supplier list updated according to the conjuncture. • Creating a time table for seasonal collection, ordering, production and sales processes and ensuring that the process progresses accordingly.• Creating a range plan to be followed for collection and production processes with relevant departments• Working with the design department according to the range plan during the collection process, directing the design in supplier selection• Managing the fitting and risk analysis studies on collection samples• Writing orders within the budget of the relevant group at the beginning of each season, and carrying out cost, pricing and sales period studies with the relevant departments.• Managing order placement processes within target price, quality, delivery and social compliance criteria and supplier capacities. • Coordinating order placement, product purchasing, loading and payment procedures, especially for overseas suppliers• Management of size set fittings, pps approval, gold seal samples and test approvals during the production stage• Managing inline and final control processes and finding solutions to problems that may arise• Preparing detailed sales performance reports and directing the next season's collections according to the analysis on these reports.• Conducting regular market analyzes in order to compare raw materials, products, workmanship and prices with competitors.• Visiting textile and ready to wear fashion fairs