Nitin Kapoor

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

17 years of experience in retail industry
Expertise in category management and merchandising
Proven track record of driving business growth

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Retail and Ecommerce expert with extensive experience in category management and merchandising.

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Skills

Core Skills

Category ManagementBuying & SourcingMerchandisingBuyingRetail Merchandising

Other Skills

New Business DevelopmentSalesRetailBrand ManagementTeam ManagementVendor Relationship ManagementNegotiationBusiness AnalyticsProduct DevelopmentInventory ManagementCategory MarketingPromotions PlanningSourcingVisual MerchandisingMerchandise Planning

About

Nitin is a hardcore Retail Professional with more than 17 years of rich learning and experience in Retail Industry, both in Brick and Mortar retail and Ecommerce, specializing in Category Management, Buying and Merchandising, Retail Planning, New Business Developments, Business Analytics and Retail Strategies. His experience in category management spreads across multiple product categories in Apparels and Non-Apparels with an expertise in Non-Apparel categories like Luggage, Handbags, Watches, Eyewear, Jewellery and other Fashion Accessories. He has sharpened his skills in Buying, Retail Merchandising, Negotiations, Vendor Management, Range Building, Assortment Planning, Inventory Planning and Control, Brand Management, Pricing and Margin Strategies, Business Analytics, Space Planning and Category Marketing and Promotions. He has developed strong understanding of consumer buying behaviour across offline retail (Hypermarkets, Value Retail and Lifestyle Retail formats) and Ecommerce, in India and whole of Middle East, covering Dubai, Rest of UAE, Muscat, Doha, Jordan, Whole of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon etc. and therefore has developed deftness in drawing consumer focused strategies to grow business of various product categories at scale.

Experience

21 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

7 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

11 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Cloudtail india private limited

Business Head (MVM)

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Cloudtail India Pvt Ltd is the joint venture of Catamaran and Amazon Asia Pacific and is the largest seller on Amazon.in. I am Leading the Luggage & Travel Accessories and Handbags business and responsible for establishing the vision and delivering profitable growth for the portfolio on Amazon.in

New Business DevelopmentBuying & SourcingMerchandisingSalesRetailBrand Management+15

Landmark group

Buying and Merchandising Head - Senior Buyer

Jun 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 11 mos · Dubai

Led Fashion Accessories and Jewelry business for Lifestyle, Landmark Group in 14 countries spread across the whole of Middle East (UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Qatar, Muscat, Bahrain, Lebanon, Jordan & Egypt) in offline (185+ retail stores) and online (landmarkshops.com). Managed the business size of 150+MN AED (approx. 2600 Mn INR)
The role largely covered P&L Management, Sourcing, Buying, Merchandising, Retail Planning, Private Label development, Brand/ Vendor Management, Category Marketing and Promotions, Retail Space Planning, Visual Merchandising, Competition Benchmarking, Trend Forecasting/ Analyzing and Team Management & Development.

Buying & SourcingMerchandisingRetail PlanningPrivate Label DevelopmentBrand ManagementVendor Management+7

Bharti walmart

Category Head

Aug 2011 – May 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

As a Category Head, Led the business of three departments: 1) Lifestyle Accessories (Handbags, Watches, Eyewear, Wallets, Belts, Hair Accessories and Seasonal Accessories), 2) Jewelry (Fashion and Precious Jewelry), and 3). Lingerie and Ladies Nightwear. Owned and managed the P&L of these three departments.
Awarded 6 times with the ‘Star Buyer’ and ‘Walk the Talk’ Awards for shaping up different categories and delivering highest achievement of sales and profit targets in these departments by building and executing effective strategies with regards to buying, merchandising and assortment planning.
Drove Fashion Accessories department from a consecutive YOY de-growth of three years to the one which delivered triple digit growth in 2012 ( this was accomplished within 12 months ) and to the one that got ranked among the top 3 departments of 2013 (highest achievement of top line and bottom line targets).

Category ManagementBuyingMerchandisingP&L ManagementAssortment PlanningVendor Management

Future value retail ltd.

Deputy Manager - Buying & Merchandising

Mar 2005 – Aug 2011 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

First Professional journey of seven years in Future Group had been very exciting and full of learnings and achievements. Have experienced and been an integral part of several challenging assignments and projects that were exceuted with utmost speed and well thought strategies.
Have performed key roles in Category Management and Retail Merchandising (of Accessories, Luggage, Men's Inner wear & Nightwear, Lingerie & Ladies Nightwear, Men's Formal Wear, Home - Bed and Bath), with additional exposure into Retail Strategies and New Business Developments to enhance the overall revenues, profitability and customer shopping experience of Big Bazaar Format.

Category ManagementRetail MerchandisingRetail StrategiesNew Business Developments