Retail & E-commerce consultant with over 15 years of experience in fashion retail, and a strong understanding of retail analytics and planning, and e-commerce business. A thorough understanding of key performance matrix to help chart a better growth path and enhance customer experience and sales, while inducing cost checks.Effective understanding of the root of the problem, and/or the basics behind a business objective, coupled with strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities, enable me to arrive at simple to tackle, yet effective in result ways to reach the end. Being part of the initiation or the change, as applicable, is a lot more important that giving direction to the same – (important to tweak plans as per understanding or scenario, than just make a plan and stick to it, irrespective of effects led by external forces)Specialties:• Retail planningo Annual budgets in value, funneling down to a buy plan in volume• Analytics and performance matrixo To improve upon buying, stocking, margins & pricing (discounting), using various analysis including Sales - absolute & growth, relevant break-up, target achievement, sales per square foot, average selling price, margins and profits Inventory – stock to sales ratio, GMROI• E-commerce strategy and operational set-upo Business planningo B2B transactions & negotiations, with marketplaces and other such platformso Marketing planning and analysis; pricing and margin controlo Designing and controlling SLAs (internal) across functionso Website designing, catalogue categorization and contento Functionality enhancements for the e-commerce applicationo Catalogue development – selection of merchandise, photo-shoot and editingo Third-party negotiations – logistics, payment gateway service providers, and others