*Led sourcing, buying and retail sales operations for Majid Al Futtaim Retail, Textile & Shoes department, covering 30 sales points across UAE, with 80 M USD annual sales turnover.*Sourced woven, jersey, denim garments, underwear and socks for men, ladies and children as well as home textile and shoes. Sourcing zone includes China, India and Turkey.*Contributed to increase of profit by 20% through tough negotiation in purchase meetings, along with adding high value items to the sales range.*Decreased the overstock rates by 30% through effective sales campaigns, at the time of difficult pandemic conditions.*Directly managed the launching of e-commerce channel forTextile in company website, introducing 2000 items within 4 months.*Gained an outstanding experience by working in an executive role at a company which included employees from all over the world, total of 97 different nationalities. Directly managed a team of 6 people.

*Led sourcing and production monitoring of textile and shoes through Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Romania, Portugal, Italy for Carrefour France international textile collection. Annual export value achieved was 20M EUR.*Excelled at market research and contributing to collection development via feeding the buyers with newest and best offer textile ready to wear and shoes items*Accountable for developing a strong and compliant vendor base including fabric, accessories and garment suppliers, establishing partnerships to achieve the business objectives including sustainability targets.*Constant monitoring of local and overseas suppliers in place, maintaining quality and on time deliveries as well as capacity planning*Proven record of project management from design stage to final shipment for a special collection of Kenzo & Carrefour. Monitored all steps from material selection to quality control in place at suppliers located in Turkey, Europe and Africa*Directly recruited, managed a staff of 4 , along with indirect reports of quality and logistic teams

*Had a primary role in establishment of the office in Istanbul, Turkey via recruiting the merchandising and quality team of 10 people*Managed production follow up in China, India and Turkey along with logistic operations of Bandolera BV, a premium ready to wear brand with 2500 sales points across Europe. Product groups handled are woven, jersey, knitwear, denim, heavy outerwear and accessories for ladies.*Excelled at import and export operations follow up, as well as supervising quality control and warehouse operations*Accountable for establishing vendor base and cross-costing the merchandise to place the orders at right vendor to maintain company profitability objectives as well as compliance and sustainability objectives*Contributed to increase of profit by 23% via cross-costing of items with different suppliers. *Decreased the total delivery lead times by 3 weeks through effective follow up of production steps.

*Managed sourcing of Ready to wear Textile for Next Retail UK, locally and through Romania, Morocco, Egypt. Annual order value 30M USD. *Handled product groups of ladies and mens woven garments including shirts, blouses, formal and casual trousers and tailoring*Excelled at factory operations including costing, price quotation, purchasing, capacity planning and managing production at sub-contractors as well as export operations*Developed detailed analysis method for comparison of actual production cost versus estimated cost and achieved 92% accuracy in cost estimations within 3 months.*Acted as head trainer for the new joiners in the company*Promoted two times within 7 years, due to well regarded proactive management and interpersonal skills. Directly managed a staff of 11 people at the final role.

*Managed the communication between suppliers and SAND Head Office, a fashion retail company based in Denmark*Followed up the on time sample deliveries via critical path and provided several reports to the buying team. Also acted as PA for the office manager.