Liaising with customers, shipping lines, airlines for smooth imports & exports
Manage booking with partners for sea shipment, air shipment, hand carry
Cargo coordination (cargo picking, labelling, drop off to port)
Merchandising Manager
Aditya BirlaFashion & Retail,Bangalore, India- Peter England brand
Driven top line & bottom line growth for a leading menswear brand (Both woven & Knitted products) with annual turnover of 28 millionUSD with 20% growth annually
Worked extensively with cross-functional teams- design, sourcing & retail
Develop partnerships with vendors for better product development
Driving category growth through strategic merchandising initiative & deciding diverse product mix in terms of price and innovative product attributes
Execution of biannual retail marketing events- trade show for sales channel partners- Distributors, wholesalers etc
Guiding team on Time & action calendar management
Merchandising Manager-Jack & Jones, Selected & Tommy Hilfiger
Laguna ClothingPvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, India
Led team of assistant merchandisers managing high profile European clients
Managed complete process execution from product development, presentation, order forecasting, orderreceiving, order execution by coordination with cross functional teams
Handled a total portfolio of 0.2 mio orders p.a. (Tommy Hilfiger) & 1 mio orders p.a. (Bestseller)
Executed cost estimation and negotiations with clients with exponential growth in orders from 0.1 mio to nearly 1 mio p.a.(Bestseller).
Collaboration with all internal stakeholders across Production, raw material sourcing, planning, Finance, Logistics and Quality teams
Continuously worked in a fast-paced environment and achieved lead-time reduction by identifying bottlenecks and use more efficient processes
Laguna ClothingPvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, India
Independently handled order consolidation and allocation Coordinated all production related activities to ensure timely delivery of orders
Release of purchase order (PO) to vendors and ensure smoothissuance of raw material
Developed SOP for sourcing& vendor management
Improved & Implemented a module with ERP Vendor for planning & reports generation
Conducted cost negotiation with vendors
Deloitte consulting LLP, Hyderabad, India
Proficient in Sales & Distribution and Logistics ExecutionModule of SAP
Requirements gathering, client business modelunderstanding and testing
Prepared MIS reports with snapshot of client side planning management (e.g. OrdersCreated, processed, shipped)
Education
Master of BusinessAdministration (MBA)
KJ Somaiya Institute Of Management Studies and ResearchMumbai, India
Specialization in International Business and Strategy
Bachelors of Fashion Technology
National Instituteof Fashion Technology, Bangalore, India
Specialization in Apparel Manufacturing & Technology
