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Shipping Coordinator – Join a Fast-Paced Imports Team Manchester Are you a detail-driven logistics professional with a passion for international trade? My client is looking for a proactive Shipping Coordinator to manage the smooth flow of goods from global suppliers to the UK warehouse. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and love keeping things moving, this could be your next big opportunity What You’ll Be Doing: Liaising with overseas suppliers and freight agents to ensure timely shipments. Checking purchase orders from merchandisers to keep freight on schedule. Managing bookings, tracking shipments, and negotiating freight rates. Logging shipping documents manually and in our in-house system. Ensuring styles ship on time and meet QC approval, resolving any issues. Coordinating deliveries via sea, road, and air into the warehouse. Preparing invoices, packing lists, and handling GSP Certificates, Letters of Credit, and Bills of Lading. Chasing suppliers in the Far East and Europe for updates on late shipments. Checking customs entries and preparing landed costings. What You’ll Bring: 3+ years of hands-on experience in imports/shipping. Background in manufacturing, wholesale, or import/export operations. Strong knowledge of international shipping documentation. Proactive mindset with a focus on meeting deadlines. Confident using import software and Excel. Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills. Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities. A collaborative team player who can also work independently under pressure.

Senior Menswear Designer Leeds/Hybrid A fantastic opportunity has become available for an experienced Senior Menswear Designer to join a well-established client based in Leeds. In return for your experience and excellence you will receive a fantastic salary, hybrid working, flexi hours and travel opportunities. In this role you will be a key member of the design team. You will work closely with the menswear buyer, head of design and founder, to continually grow and develop the offer. You will need to be a proactive team player, contributing new ideas, tailored to the brand’s DNA. The role requires a high level of graphic and print ability, with good knowledge of different application techniques and strong Photoshop and Illustrator skills. Wider product knowledge is also important, as you will be required to develop across all menswear areas. You will be working directly with suppliers to develop seasonal designs, creating a good rapport, providing detailed techpacks and working directly with them on development trips. The role also involves managing any given deadlines and attending relevant sign off meetings. Branding handwriting is a key part of the role, so previous experience of working with a lifestyle brand would be beneficial, but you will also need to be aware of current market and forecast trends. Requirements • Provide a high level of awareness and knowledge on current and future trends and to use this enhance the design quality of the department. • Creating season themes that reflect current trends while maintaining handwriting and protecting brand territories. • Working and developing closely with the buying team. • Understanding and sourcing of new fabrics. • Strong Illustrator and photoshop skulls. • Develop graphics, embroideries and prints. • Work with suppliers to develop your designs and provide detailed techpacks. • Going on research and development trips. Both local and international. • Work collaboratively with departments across the business to aligning on seasonal direction, timelines, styling and customer insights. • Build brand identity by delivering beautiful collections • Confidently present collections to the wider business • Attending sign off meetings Experience You will have extensive experience working as a menswear designer for no less than 5 years and knowledge of what makes a product on brand. You should have experience of graphic and print design, a good technical knowledge of garment construction, fit and fabrication as well as a good eye for colour, detail and styling. You will have excellent Illustrator and Photoshop skills and an enthusiastic and adaptable approach with a highly organised and collaborative approach. You should hold a BA(Hons) degree certification or higher. Skills • Communication • Self-Management • People management • Leadership skills • Critical thinking • Change agent Behaviours • Integrity; honesty, dependability, trustworthy, ethical, fair and inclusive • Passionate; engaged and enthusiastic in your role and advocate for the business • Customer and quality focused; outcome orientated; goal focused. • Collaborative; inclusive, team player, shares ideas and welcomes input • Self-development champion; active in own development, cognizant of own development needs, ambitious for self and the business • Supportive; recognise the achievements of the team whilst encouraging them to improve; adapting style to support team members • Emotionally Intelligent; empathetic, respectful, supportive, considerate, self-aware, resilient, positive and passionate, stress and ambiguity tolerant, calm under pressure • Consistency; delivery of promises; consistently high standard of output, clear words and actions. • Brand/ business ambassador; building internal and external community focus, role model for the brand and values of the business, displaying external integrity

Import Merchandiser Manchester A fantastic opportunity has become available for an experienced Merchandiser to join a well-established client based in Manchester. The role will manage the product development process from supply chain through to customer delivery. Working with key accounts and reporting to the Production Manager, you will be responsible for: Costing brand specific product ranges with suppliers (based in Bangladesh, Pakistan & China). Margin calculations maintaining the company directive. Raising detailed POs to suppliers. Maintaining & updating critical paths specific to the orders. Liaising with suppliers on submissions dates (lab dips, fit samples, labelling/trims, pre-production samples, production samples). Liaising with customers regarding delivery updates & sampling requests (submissions/photo samples). Arranging shipments with our nominated forwarder ensuring delivery is kept on time. Booking goods in with the end customer’s warehouse upon arrival. Informing the accounts team of details needed for invoicing. Analysing sales reports from your key account to identify any potential for re-sales or missing categories to boost trade. Reporting findings back to the MDs & design team. Skills required: Excellent time management Microsoft product experience (excel, word etc). Confidence in speaking with retailers and suppliers on both email & phone. A good understanding of the wholesale side order process from initial costing to delivery. Experience with footwear and accessories. Benefits: Excellent transport links to site. Work from home Fridays Auto enrolment into the workplace pension scheme after probation period (optional opt in/out available). Close knit team working together in an open plan environment giving insight into all aspects of the business. Growing company increasing turnover greatly year on year.

Buyers Admin Assistant Birmingham We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Buyers Admin Assistant to join a dynamic team. You will be responsible for providing administration support to the Buying team and ensuring that all aspects of the buying process are running smoothly and efficiently. This role is ideal for individuals who possess strong organisational skills and have a keen eye for detail. Duties Order Management • Use of internal software to Input and update weekly purchase orders. • Action any order amendments under direction of the B&M team. Critical Path Management • Managing critical path information with the suppliers (sending template and chasing updated information). • Using Critical path to ensure timely delivery of stock into the Warehouse, highlighting any possible risks and reasons for delays to the B&M team on outstanding samples/approvals. • Managing approval process, chasing suppliers for Buying samples/Outstanding approvals/fit samples, filing accordingly. Trading Information • Preparing weekly and seasonal analysis (Traffic light documents). • Ensuring preparation for Trade Meeting. • Creating and updating ‘New in’ competitive analysis. • Creating and updating Benchmarking information. • Creating and updating departmental trend and product research. • Monthly comp shop/store visits with report. Sample Management • Creating and chasing sample tracker from all suppliers. • Processing samples received (fits, development, shoots/meetings). • Labelling, logging organizing and filing samples including press and bought. • Collating and preparing meeting samples. • Preparing samples for fit meetings and recording fit notes. Administrative Support • Receiving, sending and logging in/out post accordingly. • Dealing with telephone, email queries. • Dealing with department queries, both internally and externally. • Supplier/Meetings minute taking and distributions. Key experience, skills and abilities; • Strong understanding of fashion trends and knowledge of the high street. • Excellent communication and team working skills with the ability to adapt. • Able to work under pressure to meet strict deadlines. • Good attention to detail and strong organizational skills. • Excellent working knowledge of Excel, word and Outlook.