Production Coordinator

People Marketing Fashion Recruitment; Oldham; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

People Marketing Fashion Recruitment is assisting a small, friendly fashion business in Manchester to recruit a Production Merchandiser. You will bridge between customers and factories to ensure goods are delivered on time and at the right price across Baby, Childrens and Nightwear.

The role is hybrid—3 days in the office following probation—with a focus on driving process improvements and coordinating with internal teams.

Qualifications

• Proactive mindset and readiness to drive change.
• Ability to streamline production processes and improve productivity.
• Strong attention to detail and adherence to standards.
• Commitment to developing junior merchandisers.
• Excellent relationship-building with customers and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee production from order to delivery.
• Manage key customer accounts, ensuring orders meet specs and timelines.
• Maintain knowledge of fabrics, print techniques and production processes.
• Manage critical path and update customer portals.
• Lead weekly critical path meetings with factories.
• Build strong supplier and customer relationships across functions.
• Collaborate with production, design and sales teams.

Skills

Proactive

Process improvement

Attention to detail

Mentoring

Relationship building

Highly organised

Job description

A small, friendly fashion business is looking for a Production Merchandiser to join their team in their Manchester offices. Working across Baby, Childrens and Nightwear, you will be the middleman between the customer and the factory to ensure that good are delivered on time and within price.

They are wanting someone who is a positive force at driving change for the better, to streamline and improve processes for the business and the product they produce.

This role is Hybrid-3 days office based following successful completion of your probation period.

Production Merchandiser- The Role

• Oversee the production process from order to manufacture and delivery of our products.
• Management of key customer accounts, ensuring all orders are fulfilled to the right spec and within the agreed timeframes.
• Extensive knowledge of fabrications, print techniques and production process.
• Critical path management ensuring deadlines are met / customer portals are updated.
• Arrange and manage Weekly critical path meetings with Factories.
• Build and maintain strong supplier and customer relationships.
• Work cross functionally with internal teams communicating relevant information.
• Attend internal handover meetings with production, design, and sales teams.
• Review contracts to ensure VCP’s quantity price is correct and is agreed with the sales team.
• Liaise and gain confirmation from the factories to ensure they can meet the customer order requirements.
• Working alongside technical in regards packaging information so that factories can order the correct packaging on time from nominated suppliers or to source locally.
• Ensure fabric qualities/ strike offs / lab dips / bulk fabric / bulk trims are all submitted and approved within the critical path timeline.
• Working with the production team to ensure sampling, sealing procedures and testing requirements are met according to the critical path.
• Authorise factories to ship goods and update systems once gold seal and AQL is approved.
• Request packing lists, factory invoices ensuring that all relevant documentation is received and is correct to customer contract.
• Ensure that the system is kept up to date to ensure that reporting is accurate for the group.
• Accountable for the management of the merchandise team where you are responsible for the coaching, training and development of merchandisers and junior merchandisers

Production Merchandiser- The Person

• Pro-active and self-starting
• Seeks opportunities to improve processes and productivity
• Demonstrates attention to detail and standards of excellence
• Committed to the achievement of your Junior team members
• Able to successfully build relationships with customers and internally
• Highly organised

We regret that due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our vacancies, if you do not hear from one of our consultants within 5 days then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for this role.

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