Merchandiser Entry level
Holds the order together from enquiry to shipment: costing, consumption, approvals, trims, dates and buyer communication.
Merchandiser — what the job really is
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Works in: Merchandising office, with the buyer and the floor
What you actually do
- 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 & experience
Apparel management, textile or business qualification. Merchandising is the most common office entry route for garment graduates.
How to get in — the realistic route
- 1. Learn open costing properly — the free costing toolkit exists for exactly this interview.
- 2. Practise building a time and action calendar for a fictional 30,000-piece order.
- 3. Apply as Trainee Merchandiser / Assistant Merchandiser in a factory or a buying house.
Free study to finish first
Organisations that employ this role
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Shahi Exports Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru · India
India's largest apparel exporter — knits, wovens and fabric processing
- Address
- Bellandur Gate, Sarjapur Main Road, Bangalore 560 102, Karnataka, India
Epic Group
Hong Kong · Hong Kong SAR (plants in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Jordan)
Multi-country apparel manufacturer and sourcing group
Beximco Textiles & Apparel (BexTex)
Dhaka · Bangladesh
Composite woven and denim fabric, spinning, dyeing, finishing and garments
Square Fashions Limited
Dhaka · Bangladesh
Knit garment manufacturing within the Square textile group
- Address
- Square Centre, 48 Mohakhali C/A, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
- Phone
- +880 2 883 3047
- info@squaregroup.com
Team Group (Team Sourcing Company Ltd)
Dhaka · Bangladesh
Apparel manufacturing and sourcing for knit and woven garments
- Address
- ABC Heritage (5th Floor), Plot 2 & 4, Jashimuddin Avenue, Sector 3, Uttara C/A, Dhaka 1230, Bangladesh
- Phone
- +880 2 7911156
AEPC — Apparel Export Promotion Council
New Delhi · India
Official apparel export promotion body of India
- Address
- A-223, Okhla Industrial Area, Phase-1, New Delhi 110020
- Phone
- +91 11 40501798
TEXPROCIL — The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council
Mumbai · India
Cotton yarn, fabric and made-ups export promotion
- Address
- Engineering Centre, 5th Floor, 9 Shrimad Rajchandraji Marg, Charni Road, Mumbai 400 004, India
- Phone
- +91 22 4944 4000
- info@texprocil.org
Free explainers that teach this role
Photo and diagram walk-throughs covering the fabric, pattern, machinery and quality knowledge this job is built on — free, no sign-up.
How it works · Free
Order to shipment: how a garment order really flows
Every stage from tech pack to final inspection, what each stage owns, and the handovers where orders usually slip.
Patterns · Free
Marker efficiency: where fabric cost is really decided
How marker planning, spreading and ply management move consumption by several percent — and what that means per order.
Fabrics · Free
Woven vs knit: how fabric construction changes everything
Warp and weft versus loops and courses — why the same fibre behaves completely differently once it is woven or knitted.