TFG (The Foschini Group) is a South African fashion lifestyle retailer & comprises of 22 fashion forward brands.
Our range includes some of the leading fashion, home wear, sportswear, cellular and jewellery brands in the country, as well as a host of innovative financial services. TFG comprises of the following 22 exciting retail brands; @home, @homelivi...
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Dealing directly with both buyers and planners within the retail team.
Dealing with both Fabric and Trims suppliers.
Managing the workflow within the team to ensure that product is delivered on time to the Retailer.
Managing cost centres and budgets to insure best use of company funds.
Constantly improving costs and efficiencies to insure the best possible service to the Retailer.
Qualifications and Experience:
The successful candidate must have at least 5 years’ experience in the Design and Manufacturing of High Fashion apparel.
They need to have had experience in managing a Team across various job functions.
They must have dealt directly with major fashion retailers within the South African market.
They need to have had direct dealing with Buyers, Planners, Fabric Suppliers and CMT factories.
Design/Trend background is essential as the candidate needs a clear understanding of trends to influence product development and insure good rate of sale.
Experience in dealing with performance management, timekeeping and general conduct within a team is required.
Worked with a manufacturing system, centric preferable