Experience

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  Canada Goose

  • Canada
  • Retail Apparel and Fashion
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Senior Sourcing Manager

    • Apr 2021 - Present

  • Sourcing manager

    • Nov 2017 - Apr 2021

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  Joe Fresh / Loblaw Company Ltd

  • Sourcing and Production Manager

    • Apr 2015 - Nov 2017

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  alphabroder/ Ash City

  • GTA

  • Sourcing and Compliance Manager

    • 2014 - 2014
    • GTA

    Promotional garment and uniform in all commodities including functional outerwear, active wear, sweater, woven shirt and knit polo, etc. (Womens and Mens)- Enhance sourcing and purchasing in outerwear and sweater commodity with compliant suppliers with initial mark-up over 67% in average.- Update and enhance Ethical Sourcing Policy and Supplier Manual.- Expand vendor base with duty free countries for US and Canada.- Review and approve factory evaluation report and social compliances reports.- Negotiation on new payment terms and vendor agreement to the advantage of the company.- Reorganize and update all related sourcing and costing reports for executive management.- Project leader on duty free and potential duty free country sourcing and research. - Leader of 3 people team (2 in sourcing and 1 in compliances).

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  Sears Canada Inc.

  • Toronto

  • Sourcing Manager

    • 2000 - 2013
    • Toronto

    2011 - 2013 Sourcing Manager of Outerwear, Footwear and Accessories all genders.20006 - 2010 Sourcing Manager of Men's Apparel and Footwear all genders.2003 - 2005 Associate Sourcing Manager of kids wear.2000 -2002 Sourcing Coordinator of Men's/Kid's Outerwear/woven bottoms.- Leader of 4 people team with on hand training. - For each commodity, to set up the goal for each season in terms of volume and margin and implement.- Identify the commodity gap and supplier gap by working with buying team closely to source and negotiate new and better supplier base to meet corporate requirement.- Develop and source fabrics/print/performance material to finished garment. - Negotiating on private brand programs and make sure final prices and suppliers to meet corporate target and requirement.- Multiple bidding on each program in order to get best cost and initial mark-up.- Negotiation on new payment terms with existing and new suppliers to the corporate advantage.- Implement new packing and shipping method with each supplier to streamline the inbound and warehouse workload.- Set up time and action plan, production schedule so goods will be delivered as per timeline for team and suppliers to follow up.- Supplier management and Life Cycle Management to ensure on time delivery and quality standard.- Liaison with buying team, social compliance team, logistic team, quality team, product development team and technical team as well as overseas team and suppliers daily to ensure all communication and timeline are clear and on time.- Escalate and Problem resolve on deliveries, quality issues and claims with suppliers.- Set up Supplier Matrix to monitor supplier KPI and service level to decide next season strategy.- Review with suppliers twice a year of their performance and our sourcing strategies.- Established footwear lab test protocol and requirement for private brand.- Enhanced apparel lab test protocol and requirement for private brand.

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  Stylekraft

  • Toronto

  • Merchandiser - mens and womens outerwear and sportswear

    • 1998 - 2000
    • Toronto

    - Liaison to retailers and suppliers to follow up production status, approval from design to final shipment in house.- Implement of salesmen samples at the start of each season, order entry and follow up, coordination of warehouse staff to ensure of enough inventory to pick and pack to customers accurately and on time.- In season product monitoring to ensure fast selling styles are replenished or slow moving stock is reduced, quick sales and handling customer service.

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  Edison Brothers Inc. (USA) China office

  • Dalian/Shanghai/Wuxi

  • Merchandise Manager

    • 1991 - 1997
    • Dalian/Shanghai/Wuxi

    1994 - 1997 Merchandise Manager and QC manager; 1991 - 1994 Quality Controller and Co-rdinator.Edison Brothers was a public retail company in the United States with more than 2,700 stores across the country. Their brands were J.Riggings, Jeans West, Webster, etc. The company filed Chapter 11 in 1994 and sold their stores to others. Our China buying office was buying the tailored clothings in suits, dress pants and dress shirt, as well as outerwear and casual pants. Major task is from the Quota sourcing, to fabric sourcing, to factory sourcing, to sampling based on proposals, to buying trip and negotiation on prices/deliveries, to provide the technical support to the factories, to follow up the whole production, to liason with the import and export corp, to inspection from initial to final til goods are shipped.

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  China Dalian No.2 Woolen Garment Factory

  • Associate Engineer

    • 1989 - 1991

    This factory was major in wool or wool blend tailored clothing to export to Japan, USA and Europe. Working in the department of Technical and Quality Control. Responsibility from designing apparel to attend contest, to editing the procedure of bulk production of tailor clothing, to inspection from initial to intermedium and final, to product development in terms of new fabric and new style/technical skills to improve efficiency. During the 2 years in factory, I was also working with Technicians and technical consultants from various foreign companies in USA and British as interpreter.