Renu Panghal

NIFT-trained apparel merchandiser combining hands-on product development with award-winning vendor analytics. Owns end-to-end merchandising for Nautica and Eddie Bauer, & product development for premium Japanese buyers including FMY, Baycrews Women, Ships Women, Paul Smith, Juu Inc., MN Inter-Fashion, and Edwin programmes at Triburg Sourcing - one of India's leading buying houses. I have managed tech-pack and PO handover through buyer fit approvals, bulk production, and on-time delivery.

Designed and deployed a Vendor Evaluation System that won the NIFT Best Graduation Research Project Award (Export Merchandising) 2025. Strong attention to detail, structured weekly tracker cadences, and fluency across product, vendor, costing, and consumer-side trade-offs.

Targeting Assistant

Merchandiser, Assistant Buyer, and Merchandising Analyst roles in apparel retail.

Assistant Merchandiser – Nautica & Japanese Brands at TRIBURG SOURCING PVT LTD (2025-06 – Present)

A leading Indian apparel buying house servicing premium American specialty brands including Nautica and Eddie Bauer.

• Own end-to-end merchandising for 25 Nautica development styles per season, coordinating designers, vendors, planning, QA, and logistics from PO and tech-pack handover through buyer fit approvals.
• Drive bulk production execution across 11 active programmes representing 130,000 pieces, managing T&A milestones, vendor capacity allocation, in-line and AQL inspections, and on-time delivery to Nautica's US distribution centres.
• Maintain weekly production trackers, vendor performance reports, and PO data validation across systems (pricing, quantities, dates, Incoterms, product attributes); surface delivery, quality, and cost variance to senior leadership.
• Partner with QA on AQL inspections, fit comments turnaround, and fabric/trim approvals to keep critical-path development on schedule; coordinate vendor PO confirmations and revisions.
• Enforce brand standards, ethical sourcing, and social-compliance protocols across the assigned vendor base.
• Handeled product development for premium Japanese buyers including FMY, Baycrews Women, Ships Women, Paul Smith, Juu Inc., MN Inter-Fashion, and Edwin.

Graduation Research Project (Industry-Embedded) - Eddie Bauer at TRIBURG SOURCING PVT LTD (2025-01 – 2025-05)

• Managed product development and SRS sampling for 60 Eddie Bauer styles in parallel with full-scope research on the Triburg vendor base.
• Engineered a multi-criteria Vendor Evaluation System (Quality, Delivery, Cost, Compliance) with weighted scoring and Power BI dashboards using Python.
• Awarded NIFT Best GRP (Export Merchandising) 2025.

Merchandising Intern - Nautica at TRIBURG SOURCING PVT LTD (2024-05 – 2024-07)

• Eight-week intensive internship covering SRS sampling, product development coordination, PO follow-ups, and vendor communication for the Nautica programme.
• Co-developed early Power BI prototypes for vendor performance tracking and error flagging, later expanded into the full Vendor Evaluation System.
• Built end-to-end exposure to bulk production processes, AQL-based QA protocols, and T&A discipline.

Master of Fashion Management in Fashion Merchandising – National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Bhubaneswar (2023-01 – 2025-12)

Bachelor of Science in Physical Sciences – Kurukshetra University (2016-01 – 2019-12)