Our (Coo and two Business Area Managers) aim to join the company was to set up a new, efficient organization with new colleagues and to make sure that ERP system will be used perfectly. Coo was reporting to company owner. Me and my colleague (Business Area Managers) were reporting to Coo.As business area managers we had our own teams with three merchandisers and were following up all collections (SMS) and orders/production.Managed our teams, followed up performances and took necessary actions as per the new organization that we had set up in the company.Me and my team was responsible from North Europe and U.K customers.

At Özdemirteks company, reporting directly to company owner, my main job was to finalize the growth strategies alonug with developing current customer relations, increasing order quantities, developing new customers, including them to the customer portfolio and arranging all necessary actions for improving companies all facilities.1. As per the growth strategies of the company for correct and efficient growth, to give the best service to our international customers we should change our company building. I took over the responsibility of finding the best suitable building, arranging all internal decoration and factory facilities as per international social compliance rules. I completed all these in three months time.2. Managed the process to get the Sedex Certificate.3. Developed the relations with current customers and started to work with them directly without any buying/sourcing agency in between. 4. To work directly with our customers i adjusted and reorganized the collection development, sampling and merchandising teams and work flow system.5. To develop new customers visited the fairs in England and Italy.6. Attended Texfusion Fair in England as a participant and had efficient meetings with customers. After the fair we managed to continue the relations and start to work with new customers.7. Followed up all orders of our customers with my teams and managed to export orders with the best quality and on time delivery. The main rule in my teams was fast and correct/efficient communication with our customers. 8. Continually developed new collections and presented trendy styles, accessories and fabrics to our customers.

Exported mainly ladies wear garments to U.S.A, Germany and Russia with my merchandising and quality control team. We manageds to increase our orders by 50% during the time i worked at GB Fashion. As a team we were responsible from;1. Presenting new styles for coming seasons2. Getting the collection information from the customers3. Placing and following up the salesman samples and processes with the factories to be on time for our customers meetings dates.4. Getting and placing the orders to our factories 5. Following up all production approval processes of fabric, trims, fitting with our customers.6. Following up all production stages (cutting, sewing, packing ) with our factories to be on time for the delivery of the goods.

At first 15 months period of my job in Koton Head Office i worked as Woven Products (Ladies, Man and Kids) sourcing and buying department manager. Balance period i worked as Kids & Babies souring and buying department manager. I am proud of being in the team that managed fast growth of kids department and started babies department first time in Koton. I handled a team of 28 employees for sourcing/buying from Turkey and far east countries. 1. Managed weekly garment shipments from factories to Koton warehouse as per weekly quantity targets.2. Followed up, developed and took necessary actions for the performance of my team members at buying, production, quality control and fitting.3. Managed to work with correct factories in the sense of quality and price.4. Maked and followed up the capacity reparts and took necessary actions comparing to growth of the department.5. Managed buying team to place and plan the orders to the factories on time.6. Followed up the critical path with production team to manage on time deliveries and to take necessary actions on time to avoid any delays.7.Managed buying team to make costing and quoting correct buying prices of the styles in the collection before the salesman meetings.8. Managed buying team to get best prices from the factories comparing with the target prices of the sales team. 9. Followed up ad deleveloped quality control team to manage high quality performance of the products and kept the rejected products level comparing to acceptable rejection level of the company. 10. Responsible for preparing weekly and monthly reports of my department to present to sourcing & buying director. 11. Prepared the annual budget of the department and followed up the expences accordingly.12.Determined the need of new team members and factories as per the targeted growth rate of the company.

Managed buying/sourcing department that was responsible of buying garments including knitted, woven and tricots and accessories from Bangladesh, India and China.1. Pricing and placing collections to the factories in Bangladesh, India and China.2. Following up the salesman sampling with the factories for approvals and on time delivery for sales meetings.3. Determining buying prices of styles in the collection and fixing retail prices discussing with the sales team. 4. Studying the orders quantities after sales meetings and determining buying quantities of each style.5. Placing the final orders to the factories.6. Following up approval stages of fabric, accessories, fitting and giving up the approval of production start to the factories.7. Following up the production stages (cutting, sewing, packing) of the orders.8. Ensuring that quality control process of the production is correct and efficient.9. Following up the shipment procedures and documentation with logistics department.10. Searching and developing new styles for coming season.11. Searching for new suppliers, visiting and checking the factories if they are suitable to work with. 12. During three years time in SNS company, i increased buying order amount from 150.000 pieces to 1.000.000 pieces per year from Bangladesh, China and India. 13. Attended and participated in system development activities in the company.14. Identified and progressed the most efficient processes for buying, sourcing and quality control.15. Identified and fixed correct and most efficient season calenders of buying.16. Managed organizing, following up the performance and efficiency of the teams.

1. Worked as Senior Buyer for knitted garments department for sourcing and buying from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.2. I was leading the team that first started working with Bangladesh and India factories. At the third season of buying from above mentioned countries managed to reach 500.000 pieces buying amount from India and 1.500.000 pieces from Bangladesh per season.3. Placed and follow up the salesman sampling of the current season collections with the suppliers and present them in sales meetings.4. Follow up the pricing, placing orders to factories, approvals stages, prodution stages and quality control stages with my team till the orders shipped from the factories.5. Follow up the import status, goods to reach our warehouse with import team and warehouse final quality controls with quality department.

1. Worked with Jordan, India and Egytp factories to serve U.S.A customers and start up the production through these countries.2. Responsible from U.S.A customer relations and orders of AVON.3. Searched for new designs for related customers, follow up the development stages of new collections and present the samples to customers along with the prices. 4. Follow up all development and production stages of U.S.A customers in our factory till the end of the production and delivery.5. Developed new marketing strategies for strategies for the company and put in process including new web site.

1. Managed the department of Disney, Vistoria’s Secret Catalog, Jcpenny and Costco that has a 30 million USD turnover annually.2. Working closely with Nap New York sales team increased Disney account buying amount from 6 million to 10 million USD.3. By following up the trends and customer needs, have developed new products, fabric, prints, embroideries and new pricing strategies.4. Made the pricing and factory placement of new orders in Turkey and Jordan.5. Follow up the approvals of fabric, prints, embroideries, accessories and fitting along with the customer.6. Follow up the production as cutting, sewing, packing till the orders shipped.