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Dhaka, Bd

Gazipur, Dhaka, Bangladesh

A. Strategical Job Roles: -Strategic Business forecast on monthly and fiscal year.-Customer Base Matrix with list down of target strategic new customers and downsized customers. -Product Strategy, new product capability plan, sustainable product strategy.-Price strategy on across the customers, market Intel design and product newness. -Designing a comprehensive marketing strategy to achieve the business goal set. B. Market Intel Forward marketing:- Product newness and Design innovation presentation on each periodic Season at Customer headquarters. - Leading Season Trend analysis and create market Intel design offering as own copyright. - UK Design office management and coordination on Fabric innovation and new design creation. -Competitor shopping from different high street Brands retail stores in UK and EU as product inspiration. -Attending each season product and design presentation meeting at Customer Headquarters to create new business opportunity. C. Business Development: -New customer introducing and onboarding as target market region.-New business with existing customers on new product categories. D. Demand marketing: As contemporary business demand and customer product design, product and price offering along with some alternative options. E. Branding Job roles: -Coordination for different social and environmental certification, Sustainability practice and green initiatives, CSR programs. F. Merchandising Job role: - Overseeing and controlling merchandising activities in frame of time and action plan. - Motivating, coaching team members to bring out best potentiality for good team success. -Coordination with Production, planning and quality team for ontime goods ready with required quality. -Creating good teamwork and relationship among merchandising team and other cross functional teams. -Employee performance appraisal and taking all steps to recruit new members and replacement.

Danga Industrial Area, Polash , Narsingdi

A. Marketing and Business Development Job roles: 1. Ensuring new business and new customer by working as Lead Marketer and business developer on set of marketing strategies -New customer introducing and onboard in target market region and new business introduce with current customers on new product categories. 2 . In Demand marketing and Sales role, ensuring proper product development for product offering to customers as contemporary customer demand on exact customer design pack as well as Product offer with innovative design changes.3. Market intelligence approach, product offering to customers as new ness and inspiration to input on customer range as own copy right as well as inspiration-- Product offering from own innovative design as well as fabric innovation - Product offering of else customer diversified product range as inspiration from current product lines. 4. Product pricing and business confirmation as company’s sales target and target margin 5. Prepare monthly and annual sales budget and variance analysis with root cause and taking proper actions to resolve. 6. Setting monthly production capacity and working with planning team to ordinate this. 7. Co-ordination with factory social compliance team for all social and environmental benchmark certifications.B. Merchandising Job roles:1. Leading merchandising team, managing all merchandising operations in frame of time and action plan to ensure on time shipment. 2. Ensuring on time all material booking, all material available for on time production starting and on time stock ready. 3. Collaboration with merchandising and other cross functional teams to incorporate better working relationship and team work. 4. Collaboration with commercial and accountant team for on time material purchase L/C and payment to in-house material on time. 5 Ensuring good relationship with customers and merchandising team and daily basis order updates to customers.

Narayanganj Sadar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

A. Marketing Job roles: 1. Setting strategic business budget and relevant marketing strategy and approaches. 2. Ensuring new business and working on set of marketing strategy and goal by new customer introduce and onboard based on target market and product categories as well as new business with existing customers for new product categories. 3. As design development marketing , proper product development for product offering to new and current customers as well as product offering with innovative alternative options. 4. As Market Intelligence marketing, product, fabric and embellishment in techniques offering to customers as newness and inspiration on current fashion trend to help for design development. 5.Product pricing and business confirmation based on company’s sales target and target margin. 6. Prepare monthly and annual sales budget ,variance analysis and taking proper actions to resolve. 7. Co-ordination with social compliance team from factory and customer end for periodic auditing. 8. Coordination of customer visit.9. Marketing Achievement : By my own marketing source and efforts , 02 UK renowned customers " next" and Mother care have been introduced and already onboarded, business growth is inclining.10. Just about to marketing attainment : The 06 reknowed brands C&A ,Marks and Spencer ,TESCO, Sainsbury, US Polo were introduced. Relevant initial process has been completed ,it's on under social compliance auditing process to commence business.B. Merchandising Job role: 1. Leading merchandising team, managing all merchandising operations in frame of T&A to ensure ontime shipment.2. Co ordinating all material booking and on time availability and production start to ship ontime with required quality level.3. Working very closely with planning team for capacity fix up as sales target.4. Working with fabric production, garment planning team to ensure proper fabric and garment production plan as pre fix garment plan.

Giant Business Tower, Uttara, Dhaka

-Managing team business, oversee and control product development, merchandising team operation and identify possible improvement. -Proactively trouble shooting with route cause analysis involving respective teams with solution.-Coordination with NS UK, next UK for trade forecast, season trend analysis and proceed design development, fabric innovation and product newness. -Monitor and coordination all process will be in frame of Critical path for ontime material, approval and goods ready to ship. -Order placement management based on negotiated delivery date, agreed price, capacity, performance on supplier KPI and current compliance rating. -Working with next UK, NS team and factories on product development and price negotiation process and maintaining good relationship with all parties. -Working on potential new suppliers to onboard and support on overall “Supplier matrix” and develop new suppliers as long-term partner.-Leading weekly product development and production progress meeting and involving in highlighted exceptions to resolve. -Capacity reservation and managing with next and factory as well as season projection analysis and management and confirmation to relevant supplier. -Ensuring customer satisfaction and upmost ensure regular day to day communication as priority. -Performance appraisal of team member in scale of agreed objectives and goal.-Develop product and sourcing strategies from vendors and ensure best costs offering to next UK and mitigate inflationary pressures. -Develop margin increase strategy, different cost saving policies on FOB to achieve a certain % margin increase. -Working on business forecast and target a certain % for YOY business growth and take different initiatives to achieve this.

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Key Responsibilities - Delivery date negotiation with vendors and confirming final order sheet to factory.- Delivery date quotation and negotiation with next UK.- Trouble shooting on merchandising operation and guiding all respective teams with solution.- Working on supplier selection process with product development team for each style.- Working on price negotiation with vendor and next UK along with development team if required.- Working on new business strategy and season estimation.- Working on new and current supplier base strategy.- Establishing team goal with discussion with hierarchy and team following the organization goal.- Production capacity reservation with fty and release based on order forecast.- Responsible for all merchandising operation from pre-production to shipment.- Ensuring sampling, production and shipment follow up in a frame of Critical path.- Ensuring all required approval from next, i.e.lab dip, trims, s/off, bulk hanger, buying samples.- Price negotiation with vendors for repeat order.- Working with Next and nominated accessories supplier for accessories development and approval.- Work with Next-UK for order forecast and confirm trigger date of order confirmation.- Fabric and trims backing based on season forecast to offer quick repeat order to next UK.- Ensuring team work by proper motivation to subordinates.- Ensuring the updating all milestone by actual data on online system “Citrix”.- Work with internal Garment Technology, Fabric Technology team for samples and fabric approval.- Work with with internal Next QA team, Quality Checking Centre, shipping and commercial team.- Conducting weekly progress meeting with presence of hierarchy and respective internal teams to escalating the current issues to be resolved.- Support manager and hierarchy to provide business date and chart.

Giant Business Tower , Uttara , Dhaka

Key Responsibilities - Responsible for all merchandising operation from pre-production to shipment.- Taking style file hand over from product development team after final selection.- Responsible for all required approval from next, i.e. lab dip, trims, s/off, bulk hanger, buying samples.- Sampling, production and shipment monitoring in a frame of Critical path.- Working with Next nominated fabric and accessories supplier for new development and approval.- Work with internal Garment and Fabric Technology team for risk analysis, fit, black seal samples and fabric approval, base hanger approval and bulk and internal wash test report approval.- Milestones update by actual data of order in progress on online system “Citrix.- Frequent factory visit to visualize and validate work in progress complying to CP.- Price negotiation with vendors for repeat order.- Conducting weekly line level progress meeting with presence of respective internal team and escalate the critical issue to hierarchy to be resolved.- Maintain Liaison with Next QA team, Quality Checking Centre, shipping and commercial department inspection and shipment related issues

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Key Responsibilities: -Production monitoring in a frame of set T&A to ensure that order is executed on satisfactory level. -Systematic tracking & monitoring of the quality of S.O.P. and the critical path.-Critical analysis on the product to ensure smooth production follow through and required quality.-Take decision after Conducting Laboratory and ECO logical test as Carrefour Quality Charter.-Anticipating all production process, planning and guide the supplier to smooth shipment.-Find out all Technical Difficulties and Risk issues and anticipating solution.-Responsible for conducting Final Inspection by third party and giving decision based on reports. -Closely follow up the all the process on Bulk Production.

Gazipur, Bangladesh

Key Responsibilities: - Responsible for all developments sequenced from receiving technical sheet to final samples. - Liaison with fabric and accessories suppliers for development and bulk . - Work with wash technical team to ensuring sample prepared with required wash is carried out. - Price quotation and maintaining liaison with customer during order confirmation. - Monitoring Bulk orders with in a frame of set T&A in order to make sure on time shipment.

B.Sc. Engineering, Textile

Activities and Societies: Cultural Club, Tourism Club, Debate club, Film Society

Masters Of Business Administration-Mba, Marketing

Higher Secondery School Examination(Hsc), Science, A

Activities and Societies: Notre Dame Science Club, Cultural Club

S.S.C (Science), Science, 1St Division With Star Marks

Activities and Societies: Cultural club, Tourism club