The TJX Companies, Inc., the leading off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in the U.S. and worldwide, is ranked 80 among Fortune 500 companies. TJX operates TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Sierra Trading Post and Homesense, as well as tjmaxx.com and sierratradingpost.com in the U.S.; Winners, HomeSense and Marshalls in Canada; TK Maxx in the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Poland, Austria, and the Netherlands and tkmaxx.com in the U.K., Homesense in the U.K. and Ireland, as well as TK Maxx in Australia. With more than 5,000 stores in nine countries and four e-commerce sites, we are a global, off-price retailer delivering great value to our customers through the combination of brand, fashion, price, and quality.
Overview:
Works within the Logistics & Trade Compliance Team mainly focusing on vendors and logistics support for TJX division within the Hong Kong Buying Office. The role includes communication with vendors to ensure accurate understanding of TJX best practices related to the direct importation of merchandise into U.S., Canadian and U.K./EU markets. Creates reports to analyze and identify problematic vendors. Supports correction actions on problematic vendors. Establishes strong working relationships with corporate divisions' logistics groups to ensure mutual understanding and efficient management of vendor community.
Job Responsibilities:
- Work with existing vendors on TJX policies and procedures and government agency requirements of all TJX divisions importing countries, as it relates to international buys
- Proper understanding of purchase order, pre-ticketing standards, packing requirements, carton labelling, freight and shipping processes, and all required imports documentation and regulatory product requirements
- Ensures completeness and accuracy of all TJX required logistics data and information
- Maintains and updates contact information for all vendors services
- Communicate of company logistics guides and import processes to various vendors
- Support training on programmes and answers questions
- Communicate instruction to vendors on new government regulations that may impede the importing process
- Travels to vendor communities, training as the business deems necessary
- Develops individual action plans, implements and monitors progress with vendor to promote improvement in noncompliant areas. Provides feedback on noncompliant merchant instruction
- Forms working relationships with all TJX corporate logistics divisions, be familiar with TJX standards and initiatives as well as industry practices
- Acts as a key contact for new vendors, and provides support on TJX logistics procedures and service providers
- Responsible for ad-hoc projects as required by the business
Job Impact:
- Collaborates and supports to a designated vendor base and ensure timely and accurate execution of all related PO’s
Decision Making:
- Able to communicate vendor noncompliance activities and make appropriate recommendations for change and improvement
- Ability to execute beneficial changes to TJX logistics policies and procedures and make best practice recommendations to improve supply chain flow
- Ability to understand and communicate government agency requirements as directed by business
- Partner with Manager and Senior Specialists to provide solutions to current pending on-orders to enable goods to ship timely and accurately, to not impede supply chain flow
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 1 -3 Years Experience working with vendor community and retail logistics
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, great organisation, initiative, and analytical skills, Self-starter, able to work independently
- Ability to communicate across organisational groups and levels internally and externally
- High level of understanding of Excel and PowerPoint
- Good follow through skills and ability to prioritise tasks to meet corporate goals
Benefits:
- Salary ranges above industry average
- Harmony Fridays - 4.5 Day Work Week
- Flexible Working Hours - 2 Days Work-From-Home Flexibility
- Clear Career Progression to Sourcing or become a Buyer
- Spacious Working Environment
- Year-round Social Events
- Dental & Medical Insurance include spouse and children
We are an equal opportunity employer. Personal data collected will be treated with strict confidence and be used exclusively for recruitment purpose. Applicants who are not contacted for an interview within 8 weeks may consider their applications unsuccessful.
