Are you a driven individual looking to kickstart your career in an international fashion company? Our National Business Trainee (NBT) Programme offers a unique, two-year development journey designed to provide hands-on experience across key business areas at Bestseller.
Home Country Workplace: Shanghai, China
What You Can Expect from the NBT Programme:
As a National Business Trainee (NBT), you will gain valuable working experience in the specific field in Materials Team of Global Sourcing and based at home country at Shanghai office, and stationed at our Demark Headquarter for a period of time for knowledge and skills development in your specific field and knowledge sharing with Trainees from other fields around the globe, as part of the program.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Support the BESTSELLER strategy and operational guidelines across materials transparency, traceability, consolidation, and certifications to ensure our products, materials and supply chain are in line with our corporate standards and strategies on materials sourcing and industry best-practice.
- Execute on the strategies, guidelines and roadmaps for Materials Management.
- Support the corporate targets for the supply chain – and deliver on these targets.
- Support and strengthen the consolidation process on product materials and materials suppliers sourcing across the organization and the supply chain to support and continuously develop the approved supplier program and meet the material targets.
- Build and maintain the materials libraries and support that materials in our supply chain are sourced in-line with BESTSELLER’s Responsible Sourcing requirements and according to physical quality standards and more sustainable materials requirements.
- Build supply chain transparency on material certificates and documentation flows.
- Support the approved material supplier programs
Who We Are Looking For:
We are looking for highly motivated students or recent graduates with Bachelor's degree in Apparel & Textiles or a related discipline relevant to Materials Engineering or Apparels Supply Chain Management. Ideal candidate should equipped with the following:
- A global & diverse perspective-taking mindset to collaborate with diverse teams and cultures
- Proactive, innovative with an analytic & critical thinking and the can-do mentality
- Self-initiated, passionate, agile and be a good team-player in a diverse culture team environment
- Structured and organized with a solution mindset
Other Qualifications:
- 0-2 years on hand experience is preferred.
- Strong Data analytic skills
- IT capabilities – build IT infrastructure
- Excellent interpersonal & communication skills
- Fluent in English
- International experience from studying or working abroad
- Apparel materials knowledge is an advantage
- Apparel industry experience and commercial understanding International experience from studying or working abroad is an advantage
- Certification process knowledge/understanding is an advantage
- Project management experience is an advantage
Behaviour Success Criteria:
The NBT is expected to live up to and being an ambassador for BESTSELLER’s 10 Founding principles:
- We are honest
- We are hard working
- We are loyal
- We are cooperative
- We are business minded
- We want to see results
- We want simple solutions
- We take nothing for granted
- We always keep our promises
- We want to be the best