Jan 2024 – Sep 2024 · 8 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

Aug 2018 – Jan 2024 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Innovative approach to modern retailing and willing to explore new methods of delivering an improved and balanced performance.
• Devise Product, Pricing, Promotion and Marketing strategy of the brand. Liaise with Internal and external stakeholders to deliver on profitable y-o-y growth.
• Execute on top partnership opportunities in the China region while working with key internal stakeholders
• Heading the P&L and Business development for a portfolio of products - Apparel, Footwear and Accessories.
• Helped in growing the brand from Zero to 120 Cr ARR in 4 years.
• Launched Multiple categories - Active & athleisure apparels, footwear and accessories
• Led the brand to BMM positive business in 4 years.

Sep 2014 – Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Product and P&L owner
• Lead and manage multiple categories of buying for the brand
• Forecast sales and profits, manage merchandise budget and use information resources to produce the right product mix.
• Coordinate with business analysts to create category metric reports and identify key performance indicators.
• Lead a team of employees and direct them to achieve sales growth.
• Control inventory and manage markdowns most efficiently to minimize losses for the brand.
• Chart out long-term strategies for different products and create an exit plan for products no longer viable to the brand.
• Forecast products demand and ensure inventory of the same.
• Brand collaboration - International brand collaboration and co-developing range of products.
• A good eye on detail for the entire Business Plan to be broken up into projects and sub projects that would ultimately ensure realization of goal within specified time period.

Jan 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore · On-site

• Buying,Product and sourcing function of all the categories of VOI Jeans.
• Solid expert in garment (woven & Knits), footwear (sports & casual) production and sourcing.
• Strong costing and negotiation skills with clear understanding of product and supply chain components and proven records of meeting and exceeding targeted gross margin.
• Building range architecture for all the categories for the brand.
• Supply chain management from the design stage to product delivery to the sales points.
• Gap Analysis and developments of insertion.
• Vendor management and sourcing - India and China.
• A good eye on detail for the entire Business Plan to be broken up into projects and sub projects that would ultimately ensure realisation of goal within specified time period.
• Combination of Product Skills with Intelligent analysis of numbers through sales trends.

Aug 2010 – May 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore

• Heading 2 business verticals.
• Women's wear private label business and Brand business - Coupon retail format (250 Cr)
• Key Responsibilities
• Responsible for store revenue, inventory levels, discounts and margin of the 8 stores
• Budget mapping, tracking of stock, inventory and sales analysis.
• Evaluating Business channel sales patterns
• Working capital management for Out right buying part of the business
• Sales Forecast Planning: Analyze historical sales & market trend reports to project monthly/ ongoing and yearly sales volume.
• Relation ship Management of 180 brands, And growing them.

May 2007 – Aug 2010 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

• responsible for creating the range for the season with the designer and sales data
• Costing and product engineering, so as to acheive the desired multiplier as per the business plan
• sourcing the garments in the right cost in right time

Jun 2003 – May 2007 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Responsible for managing the factory of 1400 People and to maintain efficiency, quality and meet the delivery dates