Noortje van Hooijdonk: Assistant Buyer in Amsterdam

- Working closely with the suppliers, the design team and the technical team to create, develop and complete product specifications. - Directing design - Price negotiations with suppliers - Final decision on products - Sourcing new materials. - Managing the critical path effectively through all key stages of product development - Conducted regular market and competitor analysis through shopping and the Internet in order to produce a comprehensive report - Manage and delegate to a buying administrative assistant and intern

- Checking labdips and bulk submissions - Communicating with factories - Creating production orders in SAP - Checking and managing Critial paths - Managing all incoming samples

- Measuring all samples - Fit meetings - Assisting sampling process - Preparing and adjusting line plans - Communication with factories and suppliers - Checking production and quality at factories in China - Support production process - Creating production orders

- Creating production orders - Control of orders and samples - Measuring all samples - Support the buyer in production follow up, taking part of fitting sessions, prepare production sample comments and communicate with suppliers -Prepare weekly Top-Flop presentation