My first weeks

Hi everyone!

I am doing my internship at a medium sized e-commerce company that are mostly selling sports clothes. The first weeks have been fun and lots to learn! My position here is product assistant for the purchasing department, but at the company they have divided the purchasing department into two sectors. The first purchasing department is for the commercial brands and the second one is for the exclusive brands. And I am working with the exclusive brands, we are a small group of 6 people, 3 product developers, one assortment manager, the manager of exclusive brands and of course me, the intern.

My main tasks includes checking the samples, as we get maybe 15 a day whereas many are shipping samples for AW19 but we also get many counter samples, pre production samples and photo samples. So when we get these samples I am assisting the product developers with checking if all the measures are correct, if they look the way they should, the color, the quality and so forth. I also check the website so that everything looks correct. I mix and match different garments with each other in order for the customers to find the right products fast and easy. Which generates into more sales for the company ;)

Another task that I have is to write the product descriptions for the coming products, it was a bit hard in the beginning to know what to write, as the product description is so important. As it is an e-commerce business the customer’s can´t touch and feel the garments before buying them.

I am also included in every meeting that the purchasing department has which has been super existing, one meeting was when the product developers went through trends and their thoughts for the coming seasons. 

One of the best things is that they have their own gym in the middle of the office space, where they arrange lunch classes’ everyday; you can also go out for a run if you want. As the company wants us to workout we also get a longer lunch break. 

Thats it for now, happy easter :D