Category Assistant Clothing

Ambitious for a challenging job in the dynamic and international world of the product media? Have you gained already a few years of experience at a category department, product environment (or similar) an do you want to develop yourself further at the European market leader in our industry? Then we have a great job for you

An interesting phase to join, because PF Concept started in 2023 with the launch of a new positioning and Go-to-Market strategy. This also means that we have organized our product categories in a different way, in order to strengthen our position in the market and to serve our B2B customers even better.

Reporting to the category manager, you are the administrative rock that they will lean on. You will connect with our buying office in Shanghai on behalf of the BU’s for new product data and item validation. You will work closely with the category manager, GBS team, compliance team and Decoration team in Poland to make sure all relevant product data is available at the time of launch.

**What are you going to do?**:
Your colleague, who is a category manager, wants to add a new item to the range of clothing products for which he or she is responsible. In their quest for and the development of the new fashion trends in the field of clothing products, he/she needs support from the category assistant. You are their support and rock in all things administrative

You collect and send samples for deco testing to our branch PF Logo Express in Poland: they take care of the decoration of all products; you support in making competitive analyses and you coordinate various courier shipments to be send to our headquarter/deco facility. Because we need a photo of each product, you send samples for photoshoots. All in all, you will be working with a lot of different departments to make sure our products can be launched correctly on time.

And when the new product is finally approved and will be included in the range, you ensure that the new item with the corresponding product information is entered into our systems. And of course, you also immediately arrange for the price lists to be updated in Excel.

This job has 2 main responsibilities, 2/3 of your time you will support the category manager on clothing. The other 1/3 of your time, you will be supporting the entire soft goods (clothing, bags, home têxtiles, umbrellas) categories on admin related tasks.

Responsibilities on clothing:

- Take responsibility for translating new products from product brief into PO ready.
- Assist the category manager in fittings, including sample validation.
- Provide input to category manager to build up technical specifications.
- Coordinate with category manager to ensure product development schedules are maintained.
- Support the category manager in competition analysis.
- Support category manager in sales analyses.
- Support in various marketing related tasks.

Responsibilities on soft goods:

- Send samples for decoration testing.
- Work with quality/compliance teams on product compliance and ensure new products meet legal requirements.
- Handle all product questions from sales and back offices.
- Coordinate all sustainability admin tasks related to several certifications such as GRS,GOTS, BCI, BSCI.
- The other task assigned by superior.

**Who are you?**:

- Degree in têxtiles such as AMFI or TMO.
- You have at least 1-2 years of experience in category management in a têxtile company.
- Your English communication and presentation skills are outstanding.
- You have a problem-solving mentality.
- Proven capability to adapt to new systems and willingness to learn.
- Strong administrative skills.
- Attention to detail.

**Our offer to you**:
Besides a pleasant working atmosphere, a place to grow your talents, a flat organization with an open culture, where one’s own input and initiative is rewarded, we offer you:

- Good salary that matches with the knowledge and experience you bring;
- Annual bonus to celebrate our success, when we achieved our results;
- Laptop and the option to work partially from home fully equipped and with extra budget for a good working place;
- 25 (or more) holidays, a premium-free pension, money to celebrate your birthday, travel allowance for every kilometer you travel and more;
- Extensive learning and (personal) development possibilities, including a wide range of online courses via Goodhabitz;
- Allowances to keep you fit and healthy, free fruit and every day different lunch options available at rock bottom prices;
- A dynamic and inspiring world of product media products and gifts which you can buy in our own shop;
- Never a dull moment

**Who we are?**:
We are bringing people a smile every day Ever received a Moleskine notebook with your employer's logo on it, bought a T-Shirt or worn a bracelet at famous pop or dance festivals, received a coffee mug with an inspirational text or other printed gift? Big chance it came from PF Concept. In fact. Every day you probably come acr