We have an exciting opportunity for a Buying Department Assistant who will have an opportunity to join the Fashion Fabric Buying department team on a full-time, permanent basis.

Salary: From $21 per hour

This position will focus on the production aspects of the Buying department.

Duties include but are not limited to:

Administration of Visio (software) Files

• The master document for purchasing for each season, in which all prints, POs, and pre-production notes are kept.
• Sharing this file with other territories, buyers, and administrators on a consistent basis.
• Upkeep of stock info, regular goods, and merchandising notes.
• Inputting prints and solids.

Production and Purchasing

• Upkeep of quality samples, notes from administrators, changes in qualities.
• Writing POs based on buyers notes and Visio Merchandising charts and communicating to various territories, buyers, and administrators.
• Revising POs and re-distributing to territories/buyers/administrators
• Breaking apart stocks into preliminary groups during the purchasing process.
• Checking PO’s created with the Master Fabric List at the start of the season.
• Participating in in-house production meetings.
• Preparing Pre-season meetings for marketing and different territories Seasonally; Preparing samples to match store merchandising
• Preparing PowerPoints for seminar presentations and productions, coordinating with photography and studio for samples.
• Posters: Picking sewing patterns to go with various fabric groups for mapping, getting numbers organized of poster per territory to print. Aid in rolling posters to send to stores.

Qualifications:

• Excellent knowledge of Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Excellent note taking skills, ability to take direction.
• Knowledge of textiles, and especially our line of textiles in Fabricland.

Expected hours: 40 per week.

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Disability Insurance
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• 8 hour shift

Experience:

• Microsoft Excel: 3 years (required)
• Microsoft Word: 3 years (required)
• Microsoft Powerpoint: 2 years (required)
• Visio: 1 year (required)

Fabricland’s Head Office – Toronto, Ontario