Development and Cost Merchandiser

Who We Are:
Kontoor Brands, Inc. (KTB) is the parent company of Wrangler®, Lee® and Rock & Republic®, with owned manufacturing facilities in Mexico and Nicaragua. Kontoor also owns and operates over 140 retail stores across the globe. Our global company employs more than 15,000 people in 65 countries, with world headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina, and regional headquarters in Geneva and Hong Kong.

Job Posting:
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

- Include but not limited to:

- _
- Works collaboratively with Merchandising Team in partnership to achieve the goals.
- Creates, drives and sustains highly effective and influential key relationships with internal and external partners that deliver the business objectives.
- Acts as a problem solver for the team and a business partner with the counterparts for all strategic fabric and garment sourcing projects.
- Identifies opportunities and works closely with Merchandising Team to negotiate better prices.
- Promotes and implements best practice on costing analysis to the brands.
- Consolidates and understands Cost Breakdown Sheets and builds strategies to mitigate unnecessary costs.
- Ensures that the local, regional, and Hong Kong Sourcing merchandising teams are aware of market developments, resource capabilities, competitors’ activities, and price movements.
- Manages RFI, clean sheet and RFQ launch processes.
- Conducts data analysis, builds up baselines per season, provides and updates base spending analysis.
- Identifies styles and areas to negotiate FOB prices with vendors directly.
- Ensures timely and accurate KPI and score card updates.
- Works closely with vendors and laundries to ensure costs are submitted accurately and on time.
- Establishes effective communication and collaboration with Merchandising, Engineering and Fabric Teams on solving all costing discrepancies.
- Ensures the accuracy of information that is passed on to the concerned parties on time.
- Schedules and conducts effective and timely regular meetings with the brands to communicate and align on the current and future sourcing initiatives.
- WHAT WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR IN YOU_:_
- Include but not limited to_
- Skills:_
- _ Language Proficiency: English and local language fluency in both oral and writing._
- Communication: Manages and resolves conflict. Negotiates tense situations successfully.
- Results orientation: Achievement motivated. Thinks in terms of progress toward goals. Feels pressure to achieve timely results. Self-motivated and well organized.
- Working relationships: Being able to work closely with partners and subordinates to maintain healthy working relationships to attain the set goals and objectives.
- Organization awareness: Perceptive. Maintains a level of flexibility under changing circumstances.
- Strategic and analytical skills: Thinks logically, systematically and detail minded. Experience in manipulating data (the process of changing data to make it easier, more organized to read and analyze)
- Others: Strong empathy for Jeanswear. Confident. Outgoing. Well organized. Ability to work in a multicultural environment. Team player.
- 2 years experience in apparel industry_._
- ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS_
- Graduation from any reputed University_
- Textile education will be plus_
- SPECIFIC WORKING CONDITIONS _（_ if any_）_
- Include but not limited to_
- _ Frequency of travel: 30%_
- _ External communication required: 70%_
- Major Challenges for this role:_
- Follow up the production flow and to make sure goods are ready on time._
- to mitigate unnecessary costs.
- Ensures that the local, regional, and Hong Kong Sourcing merchandising teams are aware of market developments, resource capabilities, competitors’ activities, and price movements.
- Manages RFI, clean sheet and RFQ launch processes.
- Conducts data analysis, builds up baselines per season, provides and updates base spending analysis.
- Identifies styles and areas to negotiate FOB prices with vendors directly.
- Ensures timely and accurate KPI and score card updates.
- Works closely with vendors and laundries to ensure costs are submitted accurately and on time.
- Establishes effective communication and collaboration with Merchandising, Engineering and Fabric Teams on solving all costing discrepancies.
- Ensures the accuracy of information that is passed on to the concerned parties on time.
- Schedules and conducts effective and timely regular meetings with the brands to communicate and align on the current and future sourcing initiatives.

Why Kontoor Brands?

At Kontoor, we offer a comprehensive benefit package to fit your lifestyle and our benefits are crafted with the same care as our products.

When our employees are healthy, secure and well, they bring their best selves to work. Kontoor Brands supports you with a competitive benefits program that provides choice and flexibility to meet your and your family’s needs - now and in the future. We offer resources to support your phys