ihab salem

General Manager Far East Full Time

• Job Details:• Company Overview: The company was established in 1998 to provide a sourcing service, and consultancy services for clients who wish to import and manufacture directly from China, Egypt and Bangladesh with the security of working with an international company that has its own offices, factories, technical staff and ability to export on its own Wright from China, Bangladesh, Egypt and India to all countries in the world. Job responsibilities • Full responsibility of all company departments including: o Design and Development department o Planning and follow up department o Merchandising and Production department. o Quality control department. o Logistics and distribution department • Attaining production efficiency improvements for our factories and our subcontractor suppliers. • Purchase and sourcing orders from China and Egypt (as our factories only can produce 35% from our orders.) • Planning for short and long terms targets (strategy) for the company. • Follow up all the samples required by the customer as my experience can help the engineers to reduce the time of the sampling and get the correct results for our customers. • Instruct the middle managers for the pre production study with the time study and how to avoid the mistakes during the production. And set up the check point for the quality system which helps to improve the quality and production optimization. • Train middle managers on costing and manufacturing best practices, train middle management on Standard Operating Procedures and quality system. • Responsible for the production optimization and building the outline planning for the factories and the outside suppliers. • Full responsibility for the production of our collections with our suppliers, including pricing, quality, and delivery • Further development of our existing supplier base to meet future collection requirements. • Ensuring that orders are placed with the right suppliers, based on my understanding of their strengths and weaknesses. • Ensuring continuous monitoring and evaluation of existing suppliers by preparing formal evaluation for our suppliers regularly. • Taking charge of fabric development, and build up independent business with fabric mills. • Plan process for express collection manufacturing. • Plan process for quick repeat production. • Coach merchandisers regarding each style: understanding of requirements, problem solving, order placement, price approval and quality approval. • Organising regular team meetings. • Arranging quarterly evaluation for all team members. • Arranging training for staff where necessary. • Recruiting new staff where necessary. • Assisting in fitting sessions.