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Merchandiser

Holds the order together from enquiry to shipment: costing, consumption, approvals, trims, dates and buyer communication.

Level
Entry level
Works in
Merchandising office, with the buyer and the floor
Department
Merchandising & costing
Hiring regions
Bangladesh, Hong Kong SAR (plants in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Jordan), India
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The daily work

  • Cost the enquiry: fabric and trim consumption, CM, freight, and the negotiation position.
  • Book fabric and trims and chase them until they are in store on the required date.
  • Drive the approval chain — lab dips, fabric, trims, fit and pre-production samples.
  • Maintain the time and action calendar and escalate before a date slips, not after.
  • Answer the buyer clearly, in writing, with numbers.

Skills employers screen for

  • Consumption and costing maths you can defend line by line
  • Time and action planning discipline
  • Clear written English with buyers
  • Enough technical knowledge to argue with a mill and a factory on equal terms

Qualification

Apparel management, textile or business qualification. Merchandising is the most common office entry route for garment graduates.

How to get in

  1. 1.Learn open costing properly — the free costing toolkit exists for exactly this interview.
  2. 2.Practise building a time and action calendar for a fictional 30,000-piece order.
  3. 3.Apply as Trainee Merchandiser / Assistant Merchandiser in a factory or a buying house.

Employers who hire this role

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