Furniture Manager Job Description
Furniture manager
provides work direction and training to internal and third party contract systems furniture installers and freight vendors to ensure proper delivery and installation in a timely fashion.
Furniture Manager Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective furniture manager job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included furniture manager job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Identify, cultivate and maintain new and existing supplier relationships both domestically and internationally
Evaluate current supplier portfolio and introduce new suppliers to balance the sourcing matrix with strategic goals for growth
Work closely with design and merchant on product development and coordinate with suppliers who can best execute our aesthetics and meet target costs
Educate and inform design and merchant on supplier’s capabilities
Deliver aesthetically correct samples that meet design/merchants vision
Allocate designs to appropriate sources
Maintain the design and production calendar to ensure on time deliveries
Manage the product development and approval process for each program
Attend trend meeting and understand seasonal direction
Partner with global business teams to ensure timely and accurate PO placement
Furniture Manager Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Furniture Manager
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: BPO, APICS, ISM, CSCMP, SPHR
Education for Furniture Manager
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the furniture manager job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Business, Architecture, Management, Interior Design, Technical, Education, Furniture, MBA, Marketing, Engineering
Skills for Furniture Manager
Desired skills for furniture manager include:
Fashion and pop culture
Leverage these skills
To sell effectively to different types of customers
Furniture product applications
Experience in customer interaction
Systems furniture
PowerPoint
Excel and Exchange
Microsoft Word
Sourcing markets
Desired experience for furniture manager includes:
Strategically source, allocate and negotiation cost and deliveries
Monitor production process by reviewing weekly production status reports and maintain reports
Communicate and update internal and external team on progress, approvals and production delivery status
Track inbound POS and work with logics department to prioritize deliveries
Review and recap returns and damage reports-develop plans for damage reductions
Develop relationship with QA partners internationally, within our DC and the supply chain
Furniture Manager Examples
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Furniture Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a furniture manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for furniture manager
- Assist and work closely with Construction, Store Design, Real Estate, and Facilities Maintenance Departments to promote department strategies and corporate identity
- Lead and build internal and external relations that promote an effective, flexible and productive environment with continuous improvement
- Develop and implement a product sourcing strategy both short term (seasonal/annual) and long term (3-5 years) for the assigned product categories
- In conjunction with the Vice President, Real Estate, Construction & Administration, ensures delivery of Procurement –Fixtures, Furniture and Equipment programs focused on the procurement of allfixtures, furniture and equipment (FF&E) for all new and existing stores including remodels and special projects
- Effectively manage cross-functional teams for Procurement –Fixtures, Furniture and Equipment , defining the operational skills, processes and environment required to meet Procurement –Fixtures, Furniture and Equipment needs and achieve overall strategic goals
- Resourcing of core products for cost savings & risk diversification
- Cost Negotiations based on parameters from the San Francisco team
- Management of pre-production, production placement and reservations
- Close coordination with WSI agents, service providers, suppliers
- Visit each market and /or breakpoints on an as-needed basis to assess operational readiness
Qualifications for furniture manager
- Proficiency in MS Office applications and a strong customer service background, preferably with routing or scheduling experience
- Experience with "White Glove" home delivery and knowledge of Houston and the surrounding areas are ideal
- Background in furniture suggested, not required
- Experience with product development software a plus
- Requires the ability to calculate figures and amounts
- Minimum of 8-10 years of upholstery manufacturing experience required
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of furniture manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for furniture manager
- Ensure that all Company and HR policies and practices are communicated to associates and practiced consistently
- Daily interaction and communication with furniture order management/order acquisition teams
- Daily interaction and communication with customers, vendors, headquarters and regional furniture management
- Provide labor quotes to furniture sales team and project managers, and interacts with 3rd party installation groups
- Create and maintain an environment that promotes excellent communications between the furniture operations group and the furniture order management/order acquisition team, along with all other division associates
- Develop and strengthen working relationships with furniture vendor partners
- Demonstrate leadership in the area of safety
- Coordinate regional development of SBU strategies
- Develop and grow personal relationships with relevant stakeholders and key customers and distributors
- Determine and manage marketing budget and coordinates marketing presence at industry trade shows
Qualifications for furniture manager
- Pride yourself on the quality of work
- Minimum of one (1) year recent AutoCAD experience
- Candidate should possess a degree with 8-10 years International Sourcing and Production experience
- Minimum of five years industry or sales experience
- Ability to make good decisions and manage several processes in a fast paced environment
- Communicates clear and specific expectations
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a furniture manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for furniture manager
- Responsible for hiring, training, and developing highly competent staff
- Recommend and work with Furniture Sales Operations Sr
- Participates in Corporate and National process improvement teams or councils, provides recommendations and modifications to operating policies and procedures, assist with training and implementation to attain greater profitability and efficiency in work
- Provides professional customer interface and client relations throughout project and may be the single point of contact for customer
- Attends client planning meetings to interpret project requirements, convey furniture capabilities and formulate project plans
- Develops a work plan, schedule and logistics required based on the overall project parameters and scope
- Provides technical consultation to customer and /or design firm regarding electrical outlets requirements, cabling, sound systems, weight loads, to assure successful contract furniture installation
- Attends weekly construction meetings and tenant improvement (TI) build-out planning meetings to ensure accurate and complete exchange of information
- Coordinates project by working closely with design team, sales and Warehouse/Delivery/Installation
- Checks installation/design plans against order to ensure product application will work
Qualifications for furniture manager
- Listens actively for understanding of the team
- Appreciates hard work…Recognizes progress and celebrates achievement
- MUST have 10+ years of furniture warehousing and/or home delivery carrier management
- MUST possess executive level, verbal & written communication skills
- Excellent accuracy in a fast paced environment
- Creative problem solver, that takes initiative
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a furniture manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for furniture manager
- Participates in work-in-process and open order backlog review meetings with management team to check progress and resolve any issues
- Ensures Operations job folders are complete, obtaining and coordinating installation drawing sets, delivery tickets, installation instructions, timelines and job-site requirements are included
- Coordinates with Operations and other resources to schedule delivery & installation resources
- Reviews ship dates for adherence to original timeline requirements and orchestrates with factory representatives regarding shipping schedules and any special instructions to assure installation is timely and accurate
- Key point of contact for transportation companies with scheduling deliveries to job-sites, warehouses or other locations to ensure timely delivery of product, resources are on-site for off-load
- Works with Project Coordinators to ensure that invoicing is timely and accurate
- Develop local business relationships with various influencers (A/D community, E & I, MHEC, Decam brokers, moving companies, ) in order to identify potential opportunities early
- Ability to achieve sales and GM $ budget targets as set forth for the MAM’s book of business
- AMF’s will use salesforce.com to track 100% of their activities and all updates of sales funnel
- Lead the project strategy process
Qualifications for furniture manager
- Minimum of 6 years management experience (minimum of 10 years management experience in lieu of degree) with a progressive track record of increasing responsibility in distribution, logistics or high- end manufacturing upholstery environment
- Teaches shows and role models expectation
- MUST have previous management experience related to furniture manufacturing, warehousing, and/or delivery experience
- Website merchandising experience
- Minimum of three (3) years of project management, design experience required
- Account planning utilizing strategic selling/planning disciplines
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of furniture manager. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for furniture manager
- Understands client’s needs, develops furniture product solutions, prepares/adjusts specifications and prepares the orders
- Works in conjunction with Furniture Sales Support to track orders through the production process in order to ensure timely deliveries and completed projects
- Identifies, surveys and gathers the office furniture requirements relevant to the client’s industry and end-user department’s work needs, work surface requirements, file/document storage needs and ergonomic solutions for seating, sound/visual privacy and other commercial interior components
- Manages the project budget and timeline to ensure the project meets acceptable project parameters
- Manages the process concerning associate relations issues and concerns to maintain a positive work environment
- Directs Associate Resources staff to ensure staffing requirements in Division are met
- Train and monitor completion of all associate training, DOT Compliance, and GIS scoring procedures, E&Y Tax Credit Program and use of Self-Service to ensure associates are coded (LOA, terminations, suspensions) correctly
- Ensure proper administration of hiring practices, onboarding program, benefits registration, training registration and compliance classes are completed
- Manages AR team members involved in AR related activities
- Generate market insights and business intelligence
Qualifications for furniture manager
- Minimum, four years of direct B2B selling experience
- Experience with furniture specification and project management required
- Master's Business Administration (Function of Finance or Supply Chain Preferred)
- High threshold for working in an ambiguous, fast paced environment start-up like environment – figuring it out and adapting as you go
- 7 years of experience at a management or senior administrative level with emphasis on employee and labor relations
- Bachelor’s Degree, Human Resources Management preferred, or Business, or Public Administration