Department: Home Production
Location: Head Office, Chelsea House
Description
The Fabric Production Assistant at River Island plays a key role in managing the critical path process for RI Production fabric, managing cloth orders from order raising, production and to receipt. The role is integral to the RI Production team managing the fabric critical path and ensuring fabrics are fit for purpose, maintaining compliance and quality standards across fabrics.
Responsibilities:
- Manage fabric ordering process; Collate & review fabric spec & base test reports from mill, action lab-dips & strike off’s on new fabric bases. Highlight technical fabric risks with end product in mind
- Efficiently and accurately raise, amend and manage bulk orders, reviewing order confirmations.
- Manage bulk leadtimes and critical path through production process including testing and approvals. Liaise across multiple internal stakeholders such as shipping, supply chain, distribution centre, buying etc to ensure fabric requirements are met on time, and issues resolved.
- Manage the testing process on the River Island testing platform, creating materials and top sheets, liaising with the BI Garment Technologist to achieve approval of testing and confirmation of care instructions
- Manage & confidently negotiate solutions to bulk fabric issues such as:
Delays & shortages
Quality & fabric faults
Colour rejections
Fabric contamination
- Maintain monthly reporting on cloth finance and roll adhoc reporting on order numbers, meterage & fabric stock/ liability
- Monitor mill performance to highlight opportunities or flag risk in partner mills, advise CAP
Skills:
- Good relevant knowledge of fabric/materials/ components
- Confident in reading and interpreting Fabric testing reports – able to apply commercial understanding of testing requirements based on end product
- Good experience of working across multiple sourcing locations Supplier management experience
- Critical path management
- Collaborative and builds good relations with peers/ stakeholders
- Agility and ability to absorb change in line with business priorities
- Commercial awareness and application in day-to-day decision making.
- Strong Excel skills essential
About Us
We’re a much-loved brand with an exciting future. Our Islanders are a diverse bunch of bright, talented people who love working together – and are proud of the work they do. Progression here can take you in all kinds of directions. This is what a career at River Island is like. And this is where yours starts.
This role is based at our Head Office in West London. Check us out here on a map.
What we can offer you:
💰 Generous 50% staff discount so you can treat yourself to the latest products, and a bargain staff shop on site!
🛒 Reducing Islanders everyday expenses through discounts, benefits, financial advice, wellbeing solutions and more through Reward Gateway!
🎉 A free onsite gym, subsidised restaurant & café to fill you needs. Various social events to socialise throughout the year.
🤎 Every family is unique, we support Islanders with all different family setups enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility treatment. We also work closely with the Retail Trust to create dedicated support for all our Islanders!
💻 Flexible working is a given, on top of payday and summer early finish Fridays.
💕 Give as you earn scheme, a ‘Giver Island’ day each year and receive matched funding.
🎓 Support with upskilling through on the job training and qualifications. A succession plan if you want to progress.
☀️ 23 days paid holiday, exclusive of Bank Holidays. With the added option to purchase additional holiday twice a year for whatever the need!
Keeping You Safe
At River Island we are committed to the safeguarding of all of our employees regardless of age or job role. We will fulfil our obligation under the Prevent duty which seeks to stop extremism and extremist views from materialising in our business. We promote and encourage the belief in British Values- including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs. To find out more, please visit www.gov.uk.
Our Island is made up of a diverse community, where we all belong and feel part of something bigger. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise. To find out more about this interview process, check out our hiring process below.
