● Seven years of progressive experience wherein I overlooked every aspect of supply chain and operations, from purchase order to delivery and invoicing, developing processes and targeting complete product availability for the non-food FMCG division comprising Colgate Palmolive, Philips lighting, Gimco, & Beesline.● STOCK AVAILABILITY & FORECAST ACCURACY: Ensured stock availability for each brand by driving forecast reviews at category and SKU level with the key stake holders on a monthly basis comprising sales teams & suppliers. The stock deficit was reduced to less than 1% for Colgate Palmolive in 2021 in Kuwait and forecast accuracy improved by 5-10% points.● PROCUREMENT: Optimized forecasting, scheduling of orders and inventory levels. Managed the OTB for each agency and placed approved purchase orders for Colgate Palmolive, Philips, Gimco & other health care brands, on a monthly basis to meet budgeted sales.● INVENTORY LEVELS: Ensured optimum inventory levels across the agencies and that Days of Stock were within contractual agreements by working closely with the suppliers, sales teams and the warehouses. ● SUPPLY CHAIN: Managed end to end tracking of shipments from dispatch until arrival at warehouse thus ensuring availability. Helped reduce lead time by transitioning CP shipments from sea to road from Jabel Ali to Kuwait.● STAKE HOLDERS: Built strong relationships and worked closely with customers & stake holders for day-to-day operational issues.● REPORTS: Prepared reports & analysis by interpreting complex data to assess performance as and when required by the Divisional manager, stakeholders & management.● PRODUCT: Attained experience in managing a high number of SKUs and the effective maintaining of an active article master and phasing out and phasing in of products.● PRICING: Worked on price structures for all SKUs ensuring these are as per agreed margins.● KPI MEETINGS: Lead KPI meetings with sales teams and highlighted critical issues.

● Worked as a merchandiser across Evans, handling 30 stores (4.5 million KD business) across KSA. Have also worked as the sole merchandiser on Dorothy Perkins (26 stores, 6 million KD business) covering KSA, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar & Lebanon & managing a team of 2 assistant merchandisers. Prior, had worked as the merchandiser for Miss Selfridge (7 stores, 1.5 million KD business), managing an assistant merchandiser.● PRODUCT: Monitored product sell through, drove faster covers, weekly shipments, set prices for products and provided effective product feedback to the host team in UK after liaising with store to ensure stores receive the right product and maintain optimum inventory levels.● OTB: Managed the Open To Buy for the brand alongside the Brand manager.● KFRs: Prepared the Key Financial reports to help analyse the brand’s performance over the last month.● MARKDOWNS: Set and recommended markdown depth for merchandise on collaborating with operations and visual merchandising teams. Implemented SALE & in season department promotions (Markdown events) across retail stores in all markets -KSA, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain & Qatar prioritizing high clearances at profitable margins & creating space for newness, to ensure healthy covers.● SYSTEMS: Worked on retail & planning systems like: Manhattan, Gold, Oracle Discoverer, AIMS, Kerridge, Arcadia Xtranet & Stock distribution systems.● INVENTORY: Implemented weekly allocations, replenishment, distributions, and stock consolidations.● FORECASTS: Forecast the monthly and weekly sales for the brands, by market and by store.● BUSINESS PLANNING: Assisted the Brand manager with Business planning. Phased the yearly Business Plan by market & by store onto Manhattan & WSSI.● WEEKLY REPORTS: Submitted weekly & on request reports for weekly trading meetings.● Ensured STORES meet highest standards, and educated them to meet the visual merchandising guidelines during new fashion trend launches. Managed new store openings.

● Worked across footwear brands Faith and Payless reporting to a senior merchandiser.● Implemented allocations, distributions, replenishment & consolidations across Kuwait, KSA, UAE, Bahrain and Qatar.● Priced new intakes after ensuring reasonable margins. Identified best sellers.● Was part of establishing Payless brand on the Alshaya IT systems in 2009.● Coordinated, and resolved product and price issues prevalent in stores.● Secured Ministry permissions and worked on markdown pricing during SALE launch across all markets.● Prepared the Weekly Sales reporting Pack as required by the management & UK host team.● Tracked shipments with Danzas (DHL), Logix FZCO & other warehouses.● Worked on retail systems such as Oracle Discoverer, AIMS, Kerridge, Stock distribution system and Payless ordering system.

Worked as an Executive Sales Trainee at ABCTCL - covering Bangalore and Mumbai from Nov’2006 toAug’2007.Corporate selling, i.e. handling (business to business) transactions.Generating cold calls & finalizing prospective customers.Converting Key prospects into actual customers. Managing Coffee Bean Distributors in the territory,Managing stock counts.