Castlery is looking for a Merchandiser to join our Purchasing Department!
The Merchandiser will have significant influence over the supplier relationship and product development strategies. The candidate will play a crucial role in building strong relationships with vendors through their communication and negotiation skills and drive vendor performance that directly contributes to the company’s overall performance. The candidate also will be tasked to coordinate cross-department collaboration on product development.
If making an impact gives you a reason to roll out of bed in the mornings, come join us!
What you’ll be doing
- Involved in vendor sourcing and information gathering.
- Build strong relationships with suppliers to ensure excellent performance.
- Act as the primary point of contact for communication and negotiation with vendors and working with vendors to ensure on time bulk order delivery.
- Engage in the entire product development process from sample making, product costing to product launch, adhering to critical dates and performance standards.
- Collaborate with multi department to effectively execute product development goals and deliverables.
- Oversee the completion of bulk orders by monitoring manual instruction, shipping labels, hangtags, and other documents and coordinate daily bulk order operations with overseas vendors.
- Ensure complete documentation including product specification, costing, and technical specifications.
- Manage spare parts and replacement follow ups with vendors.
- Track and analyze supplier’s KPI.
What you’ll need
- Minimum 3 years working experience in a buying merchandiser / sourcing / purchasing role and well-versed in working with overseas vendors.
- Analytical and data driven approach for decision making.
- Highly adaptable to rapid changes.
- Strong communicator and negotiator.
- Holds strong project management and problem-solving skills.
- A willingness to learn and keen interest in furniture supply chain.
- Travelling within the South-East Asia region is required.
- Fluent in both written and spoken English.
What we promise
Our first promise - the ride of a lifetime
You’ll be joining a company in its most exciting phase; we’ve proven our product market fit, and with the growing online penetration of furniture, we’re now focused on hypergrowth. You’ll have a front-row seat in witnessing the growth of our customer-base and organisation at a global-level.
Our second promise – a place to thrive
We’re building a company that has people as one of the company’s core pillars for success. It’s our mandate to help every employee perform to their highest potential so that they can do the very best work of their lives here, at Castlery.
We’re committed to our employees’ growth, and continuously strive to ensure our employees are set up for success through their journey, starting with an excellent onboarding experience, and carrying over into emphasis on personal and professional development.
Castlery strives to maintain a psychologically safe, transparent, and flexible work environment to enable our people can perform at their best level and believes in partnering our employees to raise that level as they grow with us.
