Sample Manager Duties and Responsibilities

Sample Manager Duties and Responsibilities – Studying working sketch, specifications, and construction details of the garment to be made. Material selection and making the first pattern. Sewing the first sample garment or prototype – proto sample to see if a design is successful; sending sample to the buyer. Solving construction problems according to buyer’s comments; fabric changing if needed… (Assignment)

• Planning the allocation of the sample room’s staff within the section.
• Ensuring that fabrics, thread and trimmings are available to produce a sample garment.
• Making a daily sample production plan.
• Setting daily production targets for each sample operator.
• Having technical knowledge’s of making sample garments in realistic and functional way.
• Recording daily output of each sample man and total sample room’s output.
• Understanding of manufacturing process and experience in the use of industrial equipment.
• Identifying and applying the most suitable processes to solve manufacturing problems.
• Ensuring that good working practice is applied when using cutting, making and pressing equipment and a safe working environment is maintained.
• Communicating with merchandiser and production personnel.
•  Maintaining records of pattern sets.
• Maintaining buyer’s supplier’s and manufacturer’s directories.
• Monitor and mange a sample room of sewing workers, garment technicians to ensure all samples are made under customers’ requirements and meet the schedule.
• Responsible to evaluate and approve all samples from development, fitting, adjustment and approval.
• Provide technical advice in the whole merchandising and production cycle, deliver customers’ requirements to production parties on pre-production meeting.
• Able to handle paper pattern and adjustment.
• Deal with foreign buyers and designers for new sample development.
• Experienced to handle large quantities of new style sample, able to serve multi-customers’ on different standard.
• Good command of English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
• Technical, design, pattern or equivalent qualification in all kind of fashions.
• Provide technical advice and support to R&D and Production Department on the industrialization of new design & fitting approval for newly developed styles & during bulk production (to co-operate with R&D team & Factory).
• Provide technical advice and support in pattern making, fitting and garment construction before sample delivery (perform sample inspection).
• Establish and apply the standard of fit and construction from concept through to bulk production.
• Ensure pre-production sample are developed according to the established fit & quality standards as well as complying with cost specification.
• Communicate & elaborate technical spec requirement to internal team & contractors.
• Check all products for Photo shoots and Trade shows and have necessary polishing done. Make sure a repair technician checks the high end goods for scratches and any missing stones before shipping and after return.
• Receive into inventory any returns and QC before reshipment of Sample room product.
• Maintain accurate inventory in sample room.
• Make any necessary courier arrangements to and from account for high end product
• Create a stock transfer and ship any product being sent back to Dallas.
• Pack up shipments and create all shipping documents.
• Quo Vadis all writing instruments and watches shipping out of the sample room and reset when received back.
• Receive and process any Free Goods requests: validating of warranty and gift wrapping if requested.
• Receive and process any Sample requests.
• Coordinate with Sales Department to maintain their Sample inventory and process the receipt of sample documents for foreign country.
• Receive and process any Consignment orders. Create invoices for product not returned.