Indonesia Job Vacancy

Headhunter: Indonesia the brainchild of Haryo Utomo Suryosumarto, a professional headhunter and strategic recruitment consultant based in Jakarta, Indonesia. This dynamic startup company provides recruitment solutions to hire middle and senior level positions on behalf of various clients in several major industries (consumer, industrial, natural resources, healthcare, and technology).

Since its establishment in May 2009, Headhunter: Indonesia is rapidly becoming one of the most sought-after recruitment consulting firms in Indonesia, and currently working on behalf of various corporations based in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, USA, and India.

With the ability to run the entire business operation efficiently, we are able to provide better recruitment consulting service, but with much more affordable and reasonable fee.

At the moment, Headhunter: Indonesia is working on behalf of a very well known international sportswear and sports equipment manufacturer. With a strong global brand that sponsors some of the world's best sports athletes, working for this dynamic company could provide you with pride and various new challenging opportunities as well.

To support their representative office operation in Jakarta, they are urgently looking to hire a young and bright talent in the apparel business as the new...

Material Manager (Apparel)

Key Responsibilities:

• Has ownership to ensure all Tier-two (T2) suppliers achieve development, delivery, standards, and costing targets established by senior management; accountable for key performance indicators.
  
• In alignment with global materials strategy, responsible for supplier strategic direction to support brand business objectives and product expectations, including support of material selection and commercialization.
  
• Ensure accuracy and timeliness through high-level communication and coordination with the company HQ departments, regional centers and suppliers from tech pack receipt to shipment.
  
• Proactive leadership to identify, approve, and develop new vendors with the support of SEA, technical team leaders, and other departments supporting the vendor base.
  
• Work with management and suppliers to implement supply chain initiatives as introduced by GSP, Continuous Improvement, Logistics, Sourcing and others.
  
• Partner with T2 supply base to manage and provide solutions on Materials Quality issues in development and bulk production.
  
• Monitor apparel material and colour quality management performance of all T2s to ensure compliance with the company's standards.
  
• Oversee implementation of quality management and certification programs to ensure compliance by supply base.
  
• Keep up to date on new technologies and business practices so that plans can be developed and implemented to improve supplier performance.
  
• Work with suppliers’ technical team to ensure that bulk production mirrors the expectations set down in Range Management System.
  
• Provide technical assessments of current and/or proposed material suppliers to determine manufacturing capability and ability to deliver the appropriate quality on-time (with detailed recommendations for changes).
  
• Supervise the execution of Laboratory accreditation scheme between official accreditor and supplier in conjunction with Technical Services.

Job Requirements:

• Proven success in apparel operations environment.
  
• Good negotiation skills and knowledge of textile business.
  
• Fluent English (verbally and in writing).
  
• Good IT-/EDP-skills including Excel and Word. Comfortable with learning internal Product Data Management systems.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A University degree in Business, Manufacturing, or Clothing Technology, or equivalent combination of education and related work experience in the Apparel/Textiles field.
  
• At least 7-8 years progressive work experience in related field.

Work Location: Jakarta (Sudirman area).

Remuneration Negotiable.

Qualified candidates feel free to submit your job application by clicking this link. Qualifed candidates are encouraged to apply before September 15, 2009.

All applications will be treated with strict confidentiality in mind, and we regret that only short listed applicants would be notified for a preliminary interview.