Location: Vietnam
State/Province/City: Ho Chi Minh
City: Ho Chi Minh
Business Unit: Store Support Centre (SSC)
Time Type: Full-time
Senior Merchandiser
Description & Requirements
The lululemon Liaison Office (LLO) team is dedicated to ensuring our products are produced of the highest quality, delivered when we need them, and manufactured with partners who share our commitment to elevating the world. Not only do we manage the production of great products, we also build great relationships.
Our merchandising teams work closely with vendor partners and internal teams to drive product excellence, manage costs, and build positive relationships cross-functionally.
- Support the Vancouver development and sourcing teams by managing the critical path from tech pack handoff through to buy release
- Understand style details and can communicate comments to vendors
- Core tasks include costing analysis, costing engineering and validating cost breakdown and negotiating cost as needed; excellent at costing – striving for vendor’s costing Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) adherence.
- Costing Data input and managing costing report
- Product reports based on data collected from vendors.
- Be the point of contact in the region for the vendors during the development process
- Visit factories for costing analysis on sample reviews based on like-to-like styles
- Frequently visit the factory and observe end-to-end production processes related to the products
- Work closely with our local Quality teams on costing-related quality issues
- Arrange and attend the quarterly vendors’ review meetings and any other duties and tasks that are assigned
- Your ideal background: Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Textiles or related fields
- 7+ years experience in a similar role within merchandising environment
- Strong knowledge of technical fabrics, garment construction and related machinery.
- Experience in working directly with vendors in Vietnam and ability to drive performance
- Experience in pre-costing and calculation
- Fluency in English (with local languages or Mandarin preferred)
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office programs, you possess amazing MS Excel skills! (V Lookup and Pivot Table knowledge essential)
- Experience working on PLM and PO systems like Flex PLM
- Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.
- Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.
- Communicates with honesty and kindness, and creates the space for others to do the same.
- Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
- Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
- Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take themselves too seriously.
additional notes
Authorization to work in Vietnam is required for this role.
beyond the paycheck (benefits & perks)
In-person collaboration and/or office-based work is necessary or important for the role. Work is mainly performed onsite, 4-5 days per week depending on role requirements.
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