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***2018–2021: Work at Sourcing team for Apparel pyramid. ***2022-now: Work at Sourcing team for Home & Hard Goods pyramid (Furniture/Storages/Decoration/Mirrors/Lightings/Toys/Candles) Position: Sourcing Manager ♦ Source and identify potential business partners by pre-screening their production capacity & capability; guide new business partners through on-boarding process. ♦ Actively engage in market intelligence by reaching out market resources in identifying new business opportunities and assessing/mitigating business risks. ♦ Ensure BPs to be on-time track of development and production timing to best serve the right purpose of product at the right time. ♦ Analyze product attributes; cost components and lead cost negotiation to land the most competitive price, continuous looking for cost saving options where possible, leverage factories’ capability to seek the improvement and efficiency opportunities. ♦ Maximize collaboration approach and utilize cross functional partnerships to ensure business partners' compliance with Target social compliance and quality assurance requirements and standards. ♦ Responsible for post-placement follow-up, ensure business partners’ timing and action is complete and accurate to meet quantity, quality, product specifications and delivery requirements. ♦ Maintaining close contact with CFT in HQ and global offices to ensure implementation of company’s strategies, goals and objectives. ♦ Driving business partners’ engagement and business decision by leveraging company’s systems/datas and pre-determined best practices by the company. ♦ Collaborate with CFT to assess business partners’ performance and potential. ♦ Quarterly meeting with BPs to understand their business investment plans and strategies. Share Target strategies and expectations for their appropriate plans to align with Target. Supporting them to address the existing issues and to improve their performance as well as to unclock their potential capabilities.

MAST Industries Limited in HCMC (A wholly-owned division of L-Brands Inc, our brands are “Victoria’s Secret, PINK, La Senza etc”). Position: Senior Merchandiser of product development ♦ Developing new samples. ♦ Discuss with Demand Planning team for the allocation of every style to vendors according to estimated order quantity and each vendor’s capacity for the best delivery date and costing. And do re-allocate (if necessary). ♦ Cost negotiation and provide cost options. ♦ Co-ordinate with Graphic team & Raw material team & Washing team for graphic cost/ fabric cost/ trim cost/ washing cost for complete garment cost. ♦ Attending weekly Cross-functional team (CFT) for potential issues and together solve the problems which happens during production. ♦ Working with vendors for the best production T&A. ♦ Coordinate with QA team and factory to address the potential risks and problems to ensure quality and original delivery plan. ♦ Quarterly meeting with vendors to discuss and support them for their improvement in their performance s.

♦ To develop samples with suppliers and present to headquarters at Global meeting in Spain every season. ♦ Sourcing new qualified suppliers. ♦ Sourcing fabric to present to designers and buyers, and source fabric as per their request. ♦ Train new suppliers to make sure they understand well our processes as well as the requirement of each brand. ♦ Negotiate garment FOB price with suppliers. ♦ Try to work and ask suppliers to produce in Cambodia/ Myanmar countries which have duty free policy to EU for even small quantity orders. ♦ Work closely with suppliers for their better price and developing samples to meet buying team’s requirement. ♦ Prepare well and accompany buying teams for their buying trip in Hong Kong and China. ♦ Key in/upload data on company systems. ♦ Once getting PO from buying team, prepare handover check-list and relevant documents & samples & trim to pass to in charge merchandisers, make sure it is clear to follow up the production. ♦ Coordinate well with merchandisers in charge of production to resolve the problem during bulk production.

Position: Senior Merchandiser (1.5yrs); Merchandise manager (3.5yrs)

Position: Merchandiser (PIC: PUMA brand) ♦ Receiving and checking BOM (tech pack) from headquarters in Taiwan – and following up. ♦ Checking trim card and samples (Proto samples, Sealing sample, Size set sample, Top samples…) with comments before sending to buyer. ♦ Checking with warehouse supervisor at factory and office in Taiwan to follow up fabric and trims status to make sure the quality and quantity are prepared well for bulk production. ♦ Coordinate with production team for bulk production status. ♦ Follow up production status and keep updating buyer. ♦ Randomly check quality of some finished garments and semi-finished garments on sewing lines: workmanship, measurement and other details and discuss with factory manager if there is any problem found and resolve of the problem issues with factory manager and technique supervisor. ♦ Attending PP-meeting/ Inline/ Pre-Final inspection/ Final inspection. ♦ Report to manager and buyer if there is any problem happened to production.