Careers

Logistics, Operations, and Process Manager

BERNADETTE is an Antwerp-based fashion label, founded in 2018 by creative mom-and-daughter duo Bernadette and Charlotte de Geyter. A shared vision of modern luxury characterizes their ready-to-wear and homeware collections. Fashion and interior merge seamlessly for BERNADETTE. With an extensive archive of patterns and florals, they are more than a fashion label. It's a lifestyle filled with joy, optimism, and striking florals to brighten up every occasion of your day.

The Role

As a real team player, you will be part of a small and independent team. You will work closely with both the founders, our production manager, as well as our marketing team. You are versatile, and like variety. You love different challenges and are excited to tackle each problem that comes your way. Most importantly, you are proactive, extremely organized and always meet your deadlines.

You will be in charge of all logistics in the company, making sure that twice a year our collections launch in stores in time. You follow up the timeline closely, while being in contact with our warehouse and our customers. You will be the main contact for both our wholesale and retail customers concerning shipments, while being positive-minded, and service-oriented.

Your calendar will vary from time to time, and when you are not occupied with your logistic duties, you will set up different projects with your team members, providing general & executive administrational support. You are always on top of it and make sure every project completes timely and successfully.

Responsibilities

Operations & process manager

  • You set up various projects, working closely with the founders, production and the marketing team.
  • You follow up your projects and handle all communications. You make sure every project completes timely and successfully.

Logistic manager wholesale

  • You’re the main point of contact for all wholesale partners. You receive orders, check them thoroughly and send out order confirmations, making sure each order is confirmed and inserted correctly in our program.
  • You manage all incoming and outgoing shipments, making sure everything runs smoothly, and always keep a close eye on the timelines.
  • Responsible for setup and coordination of warehouse operations.
  • You are in close communication with our manufacturers and warehouse, following up all orders.
  • Coordinate and handle wholesale client orders
  • Responsible for sales invoicing and corresponding payment requests
  • You are the main contact for all questions regarding the deliveries.

Logistic manager e-comm

  • You make sure all e-commerce stock is up to date & correct. You organize stock calculations twice a year.
  • You arrange and monitor all international e-commerce shipments, issuing commercial invoices, and raising any customs disputes.

General & executive administrational support

  • You'll be responsible for ensuring the smooth daily operation of the office, including ordering office supplies. You'll keep things organized, handle basic logistics, and ensure the workplace is well-stocked and comfortable for everyone.
  • You work closely with all team members, providing general & executive administrational support.

Personality

  • Strong organizational skills
  • Punctual
  • Versatile
  • Proactive
  • High level of accountability
  • Eager to grow together with the team
  • Analytic & hard-working
  • Team player
  • A positive energy

Qualifications

  • Must have at least 2 years of job experience
  • Belgium based is a must
  • Fulltime position
  • Adaptable and comfortable within a fast-paced, ever-changing creative environment
  • High level of attention to detail
  • Fluent in written and spoken English and Dutch is a must
  • Related work experience is a plus
  • Higher education on Business management or similar
  • Experience in the Fashion/Design industry is a plus
  • Profound analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills

The Benefits

BERNADETTE is a rapidly growing company, driven by a young and ambitious team. You’ll be part of a young and ambitious team, that is willing to teach and learn from each other. BERNADETTE is all about optimism - you’ll be working in a positive and creative environment. Other benefits such as salary/product discount/etc. are negotiable.

Does this motivate you? Please send your resume and motivation letter to jobs@bernadetteantwerp.com with the title 'LOGISTICS, OPERATIONS, AND PROCESS MANAGER'.

Production Manager

BERNADETTE is an Antwerp-based fashion label, founded in 2018 by creative mom-and-daughter duo Bernadette and Charlotte de Geyter. A shared vision of modern luxury characterizes their ready-to-wear and homeware collections. Fashion and interior merge seamlessly for BERNADETTE. With an extensive archive of patterns and florals, they are more than a fashion label. It's a lifestyle filled with joy, optimism, and striking florals to brighten up every occasion of your day.

The Role

As a real team player, you will be part of a small and independent team. You will work closely with both the founders, designers, the logistics manager, as well as our marketing team. You are the main contact for all our manufacturers.
 
You have a passion for setting up productions, from A to Z, making sure everything runs smoothly along the way. You will oversee the production of all items made in the company, from initial stage when providing all necessary information and constantly guarding the high quality of the items, to launching the production. During each production you remain in constant communication with the manufacturers. You are on top of it while repeatedly following up and making sure each detail is covered, until the final stages when the product is delivered and hits the stores.

Your goal is that each product comes out as designed, perform thorough quality controls and keep a close eye on the high quality of the products. You can handle stress, are excited to tackle each problem that comes your way, are positive-minded, and service-oriented. You make sure every collection completes timely and successfully. Most importantly, you are proactive, extremely organized, are a perfectionist by heart and always meet your deadlines.

Responsibilities

Receiving orders

  • You cross-check client orders and make sure all product details are correct
  • You process e-commerce pre-orders
  • You assist on coordinating exclusive capsule orders and inserting all information correctly into our ERP system

Production sampling

  • You follow-up sampling orders together with the design team
  • You prepare the collection book, a collection of all fabric swatches, yarns, prices, lead-times and MOQs
  • You insert all information in our ERP system
  • You prepare technical files for each style, and assist in preparing all technical details for embroidery
  • You negotiate prices and lead-times of fabric and manufacturing orders
  • You assist in product price setting, while considering a minimum margin

Production Bulk

  • You prepare production orders and share them with each manufacturer
  • You coordinate multi-manufacturing production orders, together with our logistics lead
  • You communicate and follow-up production deadlines
  • You coordinate production deliveries together with our logistics lead
  • You assist in the end of season production analysis

Production side projects

  • Follow-up, negotiate and handle side production projects (e.g. special launches, e-comm packaging, homeware)

Quality Control

  • Quality control pre-showroom in making sure that each item is presentable and on-point before showroom
  • You are responsible for handling post-showroom fit and technical improvements, and you make sure to communicate them to our manufacturers
  • Follow-up and quality control of PPS and production
  • Handling possible quality issues with manufacturers
  • Assisting with quality-related after-sales request from wholesale and e-commerce clients

Stock management

  • You monitor fabric and trim stock levels and place timely production orders of all production supplies

Personality

  • A positive energy
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Punctual
  • Versatile
  • Proactive
  • High level of accountability
  • Eager to grow together with the team
  • Analytic & hard-working
  • Team player

Qualifications

  • Must have at least 2 years of work experience
  • Belgium based is a must
  • Fulltime position/ open minded for parttime
  • Extreme level of attention to detail
  • Fluent in written and spoken English and Dutch is a must
  • Passion for high quality products
  • Higher education on Business management or similar
  • Experience in the Fashion/Design industry is a must
  • Microsoft Office skills
  • Profound analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills

The Benefits

BERNADETTE is a rapidly growing company, driven by a young and ambitious team. You’ll be part of a young and ambitious team, that is willing to teach and learn from each other. BERNADETTE is all about optimism - you’ll be working in a positive and creative environment. Other benefits such as salary/product discount/etc. are negotiable.

Does this motivate you? Please send your resume and motivation letter to jobs@bernadetteantwerp.com with the title 'PRODUCTION MANAGER'.