Hong Kong SAR
Orchestrate all development activities for a premium men's business bag brand, ensuring technical feasibility from initial tech pack to bulk production. Analyze new materials and market innovations to provide strategic design input to the brand owner. Onboarded 5 new vendors, effectively doubling production capacity within one year. Manage Open-To-Buy planning, sales forecasting and stock management. Reduced product quality complaints by 20% through rigorous standard enhancement. Execute detailed Cost Breakdown (CBD) analysis to ensure quotations meet strict company profit margins.
Managed cosmetic bags, luxury packaging items and GPW product trading for LVMH Group luxury beauty brands. Sourced new manufacturing partners and conducted rigorous audits to ensure compliance and innovation. Provided material innovation insights and technical design advice to meet demanding customer requirements.
Managed merchandising for an Italian e-commerce brand specializing in mastery over FSC-certified paper, biodegradable materials, and sustainable supply chains for handbags, premium paperboards packaging, pop-up store display material, and GWP program. Coordinated with Italian designers and global factories to ensure on-time delivery for the fast-paced online market. Provided material innovation insights and technical design advice to meet demanding designer requirements.
As a merchandising manager for the small leather goods company that follow up with Branded customers, mainly for Europe market, this job required me to have fully understand for and handle a lot of various tasks of my customer requirements, follow up as customer tight time schedule and also required me supervising all activities within the merchandising in achieving business objectives, which including:- Lead a team (12 ppl) to ensure all development including but not limited to market samples, salesmen samples, advertising, rigging, marketing, and special projects. Ensure sample delivery are delivered on time and in accordance with tight schedule as pre requirements from the customers Provide input in product development, assist and provide advice on design, and produce sample to meet customer’s designer requirement Provide newness and innovation material information to customer material team base on designer team coming new season design information Ensure new development material can be achieved customer design team requirement Perform costing analysis and cost breakdown details (CBD) analyze for customer, also assure all the quotation can meet company profit margin requirement Work closely with purchase team and factory production to ensure bulk production can be achieve the schedule to meet customer order delivery. Ensure QA and QC team work under customer requirement and products quality can be achieve customer requirements Perform data analysis, prepare expense budget, cash flow projection for management review and produce analysis reports to Merchandising Director Maintain good and long-term business relationship with customers and vendors Oversee and assist in supervise all merchandising activities of the team
Led a team of 12 merchandisers handling high-profile accounts for Burberry, Prada, and Coach. Follow-up whole product and production for Burberry’s upcycling program and developed Thomas Bear whole collection. Collaborated with production teams across China and Myanmar (1,400+ staff) to maintain manufacturability and schedules. Ensured QA and QC teams met customer requirements, structured problem-solving and root-cause analysis to resolve issues, prevent recurrence, and maintain high standards in fast-paced, complex environments.