3.1 Phillip Lim is looking for a Materials Coordinator to join our team. This is a dynamic role that collaborates closely internally with Design, Product Development and Production teams, and externally with domestic and international suppliers across our global supply chain. Strong communication and organizational skills will be pivotal to this individual's success in sourcing and coordinating trims and materials for our sampling and production processes on core and seasonal products.
What you'll do:
Material and Order Management
- Source, process, and track material and trim orders
- Attend vendor meetings and track sample trims selected
- Request and review trim detail sheets, and enter relevant data in RLM
- Understand testing and quality standards as well as costing structures for materials and components
- Create and maintain seasonal and seasonless trim boards
- Establish and enforce color and quality standards based on design requests, and identify and pursue opportunities for consistency within and across seasons
- Manage physical and digital seasonal trim logs
- Process invoices and monitor the AP schedule to make sure terms are maintained without delay to materials being released
Maintain Calendar
- Managing schedules and deliveries, and communicating lead times to other teams based on detail sheets and supplier communication
- Understand best practices for shipping to ensure materials are not delayed in transit
What you have:
Strong Organizational skills:
- Maintain organization of both physical and digital items accurately and reliably
- Demonstrate excellent time-management and understanding of priorities from leadership
Team Player + Communicator:
- Must have strong communication skills, both oral and written
- Able to stay calm and level-headed under tight timelines and challenging situations
- Passionate/motivated – equally loves the product, process, and execution
- Proactive – anticipates needs & issues and works proactively to find solutions
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree, with 1-2 years of related work experience
- Experience with ERP systems, RLM is a plus
- Strong proficiency in Excel
