Jun 2014 – Jan 2025 · 10 yrs 7 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · On-site

• Independently handling family's apparel manufacturing business.
• Managing in-house garment manufacturing operations and private labels in the women's wear category namely FATEN (women's Ethnic wear label), MODESTLY (women's modest wear label), and MUSE COUTURE (women's Western Wear Label)
• Do business development activities like securing orders from domestic and overseas buyers, maintaining good relations with existing buyers & buying houses. And approaching new potential clients for manufacturing business.
• Handle all business communications with clients as well as suppliers.
• Managing ecommerce team for the developments of private labels.
• Handle fabric, trims and euipments sourcing on the most competitive prices.
• Handle and maintain good relations with suppliers & job workers to meet production targets.
• Closely monitor all operations for smooth functioning.
• Working on business financials like buyer costings, ex-factory pricing, taxes, & overheads constantly in order to achive desired profit margins.
• Do regular market research for new prints, fabric qualities & trims for private labels & clients.
• Overlook daily jobs like order processing, returns, inventory updates. Arrange timely photo-shoots for upcoming styles
• Working on product performance, visibility & catalogue quality reports
• Create weekly & monthly ad budget’s on different portals as per product popularity.

Jul 2012 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · New Delhi Area, India · On-site

• Handling brand "Latin Quarters" a women's fast fashion brand.
• Handling a team of merchandisers, QA & PD.
• Identifying & developing new vendors, maintaining and building strong ties with existing vendors for smooth execution of buying plan.
• Closely working with designers and PD for new development.
• Working on sale reports, vendor performance statistics, and merchandise planning
• Negotiate & approve costing, delivery schedule, and terms with suppliers to get the most competitive product at the right time.
• Work on re-orders of best sellers & fast-moving design's to enhance sales during peak sale period.
• Re-structured in-house product development to minimize errors and parallel increase in efficiency.
• Initiated sourcing from Bangladesh for knits basic collection.
• Arrange for trims & fabric samples from China & place order for bulk.
• Reduced product cost by 8% by creating product product-specific vendor base.
• Create department-wise SOP and correct them as per requirements.

May 2011 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · Kanpur Area, India · On-site

• Handling the apparel division of the brand "Red Chief".
• Working closely with the design department from initial developments till the final product to ensure the best possible product range.
• Handling New developments, Sampling, Allocation, Costing, Production planning & Approvals like fabric testing, labdip,trims & packaging..
• Independently handled merchandise planning & buying for all categories in the initial stage and later lead the Merchandising/buying team.
• Driving and maintaining the targeted Gross margins by effective sourcing, and negotiation to keep competitive Selling price of products.
• Vendor identification, development, and nurturing the relationship to improvise the commercials.
• Capacity Planning with factories while order placement.
• Arranging stock according to Buy plan for the season at category level keeping in mind the OTB.
• Woking closely with Division Manager on maintaining MRP’s, building OTB & Sales analyses

Aug 2010 – Apr 2011 · 8 mos · New Delhi Area, India · On-site

• Reporting to Merchandising Manager
• Involved in the distribution of styles to suppliers as per technical facilities available with them & their capacity
• Communication and coordination with Vendors daily for production follow-ups & deliveries
• Independently handle sourcing of fabrics & trims for job work orders
• Handle import shipments of fabrics & trims from China
• Working out on costing break-up’s and getting them approval from MM
• Getting new vendors on-board & maintain existing suppliers
• Visiting factories for status and offer inspection
• Solve technical issues, production hassle’s and queries of suppliers to maintain required quality standard’s & timely delivery
• Maintain inter-departmental co-ordination with desigening, Quality, operations & sales, warehouse & accounts department for smooth working
• Involved in creating merchandising & buying plan with MM
• Responsible to fulfill sourcing needs of Design & sampling department.

Dec 2009 – Aug 2010 · 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

• Independently handle Men’s division
• Maintain & submit weekly Merchandising reports (production & sampling) to the division head
• Maintain interdepartmental co-ordination & communication with designing, sampling, sourcing, fabric & trim store, production & warehousing departments for smooth execution to assure timely launch of collections.
• Handle costing & negotiation with vendors to get the best prices
• Creating BOM, PO’s, barcodes & order sheets for ongoing & upcoming orders on ERP
• Check and approve production files, bulk raw material received & lab test reports
• Arrange style wise pre-production meetings with production & Quality Department. and keep track of stylewise TNA.
• Maintain & updating style files for approvals & communications.

Dec 2008 – Aug 2009 · 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• To assist Sr. Merchandiser Maintain constant communication with suppliers.
• Check and provide comments on fit, proto, and pp samples
• To do production follow-ups for ongoing orders.
• Maintain records of approvals, POs, and Barcodes.
• Co-ordinate with designers for new product developments.
• Creating BOM for in-house production & ensuring timely delivery of trims & fabrics.

Apr 2006 – Oct 2008 · 2 yrs 6 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · On-site

• To assist Sr. Merchandiser in product sourcing from Delhi NCR, Tirupur and Bangladesh.
• Handle daily communication with Vendors & Quality team based in bangladesh for production status & update concerned departments accordingly about upcoming deliveries
• Check and provide comments on fit, proto, and pp samples. and update records accordingly.
• Maintain & update records of approvals, POs, and Barcodes for all completed, running & upcoming orders.
• Co-ordinate with designers for new product developments & approvals of print & Embroidery Artworks.