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Bengaluru, KA, IN

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Handling a team of 2 people with complete end to end planning & Buying forWomen Ethnic & Women Western wear brands, from story development till salewith direct responsibility of Buying, Planning & Merchandising for.
• Sales Forecasting for SIS & LFRs.
• Building and driving a seasonal calendar along with design, sourcing, product &marketing team to ensure all calendar products & activities for the season -story building, product direction, key looks & assortment plan.
• OTB planning to arrive at the optimum quantity and options.
• Range planning, selection & buying during roadshow as per OTB requirements.
• Store Level Buying & Allocation to arrive at the best possible match of stylesbought for the store profile.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Kid’s wear Vendor Brands: -
• Identify gaps in the market and fill through category extension or new brand launches by onboarding strategic partners for long-term relationships.
• Increase Vendor Brand contribution on a MOM basis.
• Maintaining freshness and analyze customer behavior across verticals to increase repeat rates.
• Maintaining a healthy category mix to achieve MOM targets.
• Ensuring a seamless process flow from Cataloguing to product delivery.

Bengaluru Area, India

• OTB planning for all the 3 brands(Vans, Lee & Wrangler) in alignment with the annual business plan.
• EOSS planning for the season in alignment with the annual discounting budget, also assuring to push slow movers in middle of the season.
• Range planning, selection & buying during roadshow as per the qualitative & quantitative OTB.
• Store Level Buying & Allocation to arrive at the best possible match of styles bought for the respective store profile.
• Planning stock inward in coordination with Sourcing team and Warehouse team.
• Competition mapping in terms of Design, Price points, product range and find gaps to insert capsule collections to fill the gap.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Option plan, MRP plan, full price quantity & discount price quantity.
• Price negotiation, timely Inwards, relationship management and maintaining targeted margins for the brands.
• Costing, maintaining price laddering, and setting MRP's considering average targeted margin.
• Making sure timely inwards based on key stories and Product presentation at stores.
• Day to day interaction with marketing and VM for achieving targeted sell thru for the season.
• Build, Coach, Develop and Motivate the team to meet and exceed performance expectation.

Bangalore, India

• Forecasting sub-brand & category sale at store, region and national level as per past data, future trends & brand strategy.
• Building and driving a seasonal calendar along with design, sourcing, product & marketing team to ensure all calendar product activities of the season - story building, product direction, key looks & assortment plan.
• OTB planning to arrive at the optimum quantity and options that needs to be bought at MRP level & design parameters.
• Range planning, selection & buying during roadshow as per the qualitative & quantitative OTB requirements.
• Store Level Buying & Allocation to arrive at the best possible match of styles bought for the store profile.
• Coordinating with various teams - supply chain, sourcing, product team, visual merchandising, sales & marketing to ensure proper season launch in terms of timely deliveries, stocks sufficiency, store visual.

Chennai Area, India

• OTB, EOSS Planning & Buy Plan
• Buying for North and East India stores.
• Maintaining targeted returns on total dispatch for EBO's.
• Taking steps to achieve targeted Sell thru with controlled discounts.
• Coordination with VM, Marketing & Sourcing to ensure key stories are up in store on time in alignment with marketing promos and planned activities.
• Coordination with Sales and operation team for making sure on right merchandise is in stores on time to achieve the targets.

Project on the reasons of absenteeism at blue star kolkata.[BBA] OBJECTIVE:- To find out the reasons and factors effecting absenteeism in an organization.Project on the distribution channels of Shalimar colours, kolkata.[BBA]OBJECTIVE:- To study the distribution channel of Shalimar colours and to give recommendations on the weaknesses. A feasibility study.

WORK AREAS:-Handling a team of agents.Managing the distribution channel of medical insurance through chemists.

Masters Of Fashion Management, Degree

Bba

A.I.S.S.C.E (C.B.S.E)

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