Fabric Buyer

7 months ago


Cape Town, South Africa Traut Personnel Full time

**My client has an exciting opportunity available within their Clothing Design Centre for an experienced Apparel Fabric Buyer who is keen to work within a dynamic team, where innovation is the key to success.**
- **Job Description**_

Receive fabric briefs from Buyers/Merchandisers:

- Brief and forward fabric swatches to suppliers to source quote and develop accordingly.
- Follow up on supplier quotes/comparative quotes within a range of fabric specifications.
- Confirm fabric prices and proposed shipment dates with merchandisers.

Create fabric orders once price and shipment dates are confirmed:

- Follow up on confirmation of order and indent.
- Capture and continually update the ERP system in line with the fabric critical path.
- Follow up with suppliers re the critical path ensuring buying divisions’ timeous sign off on handlooms/lab dips/strike-offs.
- Follow up of shipment dates (ETD) and ETA’s.
- Ensure timeous communication to production department/merchandisers of all ETD and ETA changes and maintain fabric schedules accordingly.
- Maintain records of fabric orders with corresponding swatches and signed approvals.
- Fabric delivery management and control:

- Maintain all record keeping of all fabric arrivals.
- Internal and external communication of actual fabric arrival.

Invoice/payment management
- Collate and follow up all paperwork in order to process payment (Invoice, Packing list, etc).
- Invoice capturing on the required payment systems.
- Initiate fabric claims and follow up.

Fabric Stock
- Maintain fabric stock file.
- **Key Requirements**_
- Diploma in Clothing beneficial.
- Minimum 3 years fabric buying in Clothing Manufacturing environment.
- Strong administration and clerical experience.
- Computer literate (Excel, Word, Outlook, etc).
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Good communication skills (written and verbal).

Position located in Cape Town. Call Gabi Traut on 083 274 5193.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent


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