Product Specialist at Jonsson Workwear

• The Product Specialists plays an integral role in the Operations Team, managing portfolios of products within the Jonsson Workwear product range, by investigating key data obtained to ensure informed marketing, production and replenishment as well as product development strategic decisions

The key requirements of the role include:

• Having full responsibility for a specific allocated garment product category.
• Ensuring correct garment stock levels (manufactured & buy-ins) by tracking sales to ensure continuous customer supply demands are met.
• Taking great pride in having all forecasts and admin up to date, completely accurate and under control.
• Working very closely with, and providing efficient service to procurement, planning, Account Coordinators and the Product Development Teams.
• Involvement in the tracking and managing of new product development within their allocated product categories.
• Responsible for product cost control, including preparing and maintaining allocated category cost sheets, maintaining BOM’s and product variance analysis.
• Extracting data from different sources, identifying variances and proposing corrective action measures.
• A mainly office bound position working within a very important team of driven, likeminded people.
• Using your initiative, having your finger on the pulse, being pro-active in pre-empting customer needs.
• Asking the how and why; generating logical ways to improve the forecasting / demand planning processes.
• Involvement with ad-hoc varied projects to meet changing needs within the business.
• Making occasional short visits to our Lesotho factories.
• Being a right-hand person to the Operations Leader and a “go-to” person who people rely on.

The qualifications and experience we’re looking for:

• University degree (eg. B.Com with Economics, Accounts, Supply Chain or Logistics Management) with outstanding academic achievements.
• Extensive forecasting / demand planning experience.
• Some cost and management accounting experience would be a plus.
• Clothing or textiles’ sector experience preferable.
• Highly computer literate in MS Office with ADVANCED spreadsheet skills essential.
• Experience on Fast React and/or Syspro advantageous.
• Valid passport (or must be obtained if appointed).

The type of personality that will excel:

• A superb analyst, systems driven with a real head for, and loves to work with, figures and schedules.
• Understands the importance of deadlines and can work accurately and efficiently under pressure and with a sense of urgency.
• Understands the critical importance of accurate stock levels and replenishment requirements to fully meet customer order time frames.
• Gets to the root causes of problems when they occur and devises proactive workable solutions.
• Is organised, systematic, works to a plan and gets “stuck in” to get the job done on time.
• Is fluent in spoken and written English with excellent communication and interpersonal skills