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.