Umar Farooque

To obtain a dignified position in a reputed organization where I could portray my skills and responsibilities in the current competitive and challenging environment.

Store Manager at SOCH Apparels Pvt. Ltd. (2022-08 – Present)

• Meeting Weekly and Monthly targets
• Conducting daily briefing for team members, to meet the targets and assigning individual tasks for the day
• Monitoring the store performance through store KPI's
• Setting up a strategy with the store team to increase the sales
• Conducting weekly training for team members on KPI's, Product knowledge etc
• To ensure that the store has stock as per the base stock for smooth business operation
• Handling customer grievances of any sort
• Ensuring to run the store as per the company audit policies
• To ensure that the store achieves weekly growth over last week

Store Manager at United Colors of Benetton (2017-01 – 2022-12)

• Setting sales targets and ensuring to achieve the targets for the store
• Conducting weekly meetings to analyze sales and cover routine activity
• Organizing a training session for the team members to boost sales
• Communicate with the store team to develop methods and steps taken to increase sales
• Analyzing the LFL (Like for Like) sales for the region
• Ensuring to reorder the stocks when it drops to a specific level
• Analysing sales of the region through sell thru report across all, categories, seasons etc
• Preparing and sending weekly reports to the Operations Head

Assistant Manager at Red Tag Retail (Division of BMA International) (2015-01 – 2017-12)

• Ensuring to achieve daily and monthly sales targets
• Enhancing selling skills of team members through a training session
• Monitoring the activities of the team members and assigning them their routine tasks
• Responsible for preparing and sending daily sales reports and Summary Report to Dubai Regional Office
• To ensure that the team members focus on the Key Performance indicators to increase sales
• To ensure that enough inventory is available to achieve sales targets

Floor Manager at V2 Retail Ltd. (2013-01 – 2015-12)

• Weekly meetings with management to discuss about business updates, issues and strategies to increase sales
• Focusing on Sales Generation, Conversion, KPI's, employee management, customer complaints and queries etc
• Preparing report on low and high PSF sale for every sub-category of Merchandise
• Reviewing the daily and monthly sale achievement on target given versus target achieved
• Maintaining the stock levels all time for target achievement

M.B.A in Marketing & Sales – Amity Business School, Amity University (2011-01 – 2013-12)

B.B.A in Marketing – KIIT School of Management (2008-01 – 2011-12)

SSC in Commerce – Loyola School (2006-01 – 2008-12)

HSC in Science – Loyola School (2006-01 – 2006-12)