What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sample Coordinator position at Hybrid Apparel?
Hybrid’s humble beginnings started in 1997 in the back of a print shop designing, selling, and printing tee shirts. Today, Hybrid is a global apparel industry powerhouse in brand and licensing management. Hybrid provides its expertise and fully vertical operations capability – design, merchandising, development, sourcing, production, and distribution – to a broad suite of branded, licensed, generic, and private label partners. Hybrid’s full-service apparel design and manufacturing expertise extends across the apparel category, including knits, woven tops, bottoms, tees, and accessories.
As our organization has evolved, so has our philosophy of doing business. We have made concerted efforts to remove ourselves from the antiquated approach of other apparel manufacturers and doing things differently has been our focus. We are building a company ethos that breeds innovation, collaboration, integrity and excellence in customer service.
What You'll Do
The Product Development/Sample Coordinator will help Product Development to facilitate the processing, tracking, organization, and shipment of all sales samples across multiple brands. This position will also manage organization in the Product Development area and assist Product Development during the development process all the way to production stage.
- Create sales sample WIP reports
- Fabric Sourcing R D (Research and Development)- fabric counter sourcing with overseas vendors.
- Track, receive and distribute sales samples for multiple brands,
- Check sample requests for completeness and accuracy before updating WIP report.
- Follow up on any missing samples via email with overseas and domestic suppliers.
- Constant communication with our domestic and overseas suppliers to ensure on time delivery of samples
- Ship sales samples to multiple overseas and domestic sales reps
- Create commercial invoices for overseas sample shipments, generating shipping and return labels
- Organize in house samples racks to be used for photo shoots and meetings
- Help with seasonal photo shoots
- Open daily packages and alerting team members about what is received
- Organize office
- Help with tracking and reporting needs
- Help with uploading information into Nu Order and art requests as per needed basis
What You'll Need
- High school diploma or equivalent
- 1-2 years of relevant experience; apparel experience is a plus
- 2 years of experience in Product Development and/or Sourcing
- Experience with Target, Wal-Mart, and/or Kohl's is a plus
Hybrid Apparel is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.