Guruprasad Krishnan Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Planning & Merchandising for Retail stores & E-CommerceStrategic Planning for Fabric & ApparelMerchandising for Marketplaces & Omnichannel

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Head the planning for placing the right product across all lifestyle categories of Apparel, Beauty & Fragrance, Home & Kitchen, Appliances, Jewellery.Vendor Management for Apparels, Appliances & Home ware.Business Process SetupP&L ResponsibilityInventory ManagementPeople Development & Coaching

Mumbai Area, India

- Lead Demand Planning & merchandising for the Retail stores across the country-Lead & manage the team of Demand Planners to ensure smooth allocation and replenishment merchandise operations.- Own Category P&L, Selection, Assortment to drive revenue growth and Gross margin delivery- Responsible for Buying, merchandising, assortment planning to ensure right offering for Retail consumers at stores.- Collaborate with the marketing and business teams to drive the marketing plans for… Show more - Lead Demand Planning & merchandising for the Retail stores across the country-Lead & manage the team of Demand Planners to ensure smooth allocation and replenishment merchandise operations.- Own Category P&L, Selection, Assortment to drive revenue growth and Gross margin delivery- Responsible for Buying, merchandising, assortment planning to ensure right offering for Retail consumers at stores.- Collaborate with the marketing and business teams to drive the marketing plans for the category including category and product promotion plans- Own, define and drive growth strategy across category, products, & geographies PAN India- Manage merchandising operations, Inbound planning, Catalogue monitoring and margin- Inventory management in terms of ageing and investments in stock- Identifying changing consumer trends and consequent business opportunity to maximize Category performance.- Market Research, Consumer Insights, Competitive landscape, Business Intelligence and MIS presentations- Drive growth through brand liasoning, Marketing, Operations and CS- Organize performance reviews with Vendors/Brands & Product teams to monitor, revise & align business strategies.- Lead critical and special projects involving stakeholders across functions like marketing, operations.- Formulate & plan roadmaps for special must win projects.- Publish timely updates and reports for project monitoring. Show less

Mumbai

Translates the strategic goals into retail operational plans to achieve the required targeted growth in sales and profitability.Identifies opportunities for planning marketing activities for promoting the retail stores & cross branding opportunities.Generates ideas about future retail activities to ensure a cutting edge strategy; maintains up to date knowledge of the market place, competitors and trends.Using feedback mechanisms from the operations team with other departments to… Show more Translates the strategic goals into retail operational plans to achieve the required targeted growth in sales and profitability.Identifies opportunities for planning marketing activities for promoting the retail stores & cross branding opportunities.Generates ideas about future retail activities to ensure a cutting edge strategy; maintains up to date knowledge of the market place, competitors and trends.Using feedback mechanisms from the operations team with other departments to ensure the integration of the retail strategyTakes decisions on matters relating to the day to day retail operation within their defined work area including the strategic planning of resources.Ensures that the retail operation complies to all policies and procedures relating to operational standards and to meet statutory requirements, ensuring minimum risk to the businessSpends time in shops with retail shop teams and customers to understand and identify business critical issues in order to ensure the alignment of tactics and strategies; maintains the corporate identity of the brand in all shops and related initiatives.Takes a lead role in building a strong sales management culture with the operations team; spends time coaching Business Managers, identifying skills and opportunities for development; provides advice and guidance on shop manager issues when needed.Works with the HR Business Partner to ensure people management issues are satisfactorily resolved and relevant HR policies and procedures are adhered to. Chairs disciplinary, grievance, capability hearings and appeals as required.Proactively manages and reviews the performance and progress of Stores, sets short term objectives and targets; works with Regional Training Manager to develop individual training plans for the teamRecruits, trains and develops staff ensuring adherence to HR systems and procedures Show less

Mumbai

-Consulting retail customers about best practices in Retail Planning, Retail Store operations BI tools and Retail Analytics-Business Process mapping and Re-engineering-Product Demonstration of Planning and Point of Sale Solutions-Solutioning towards product customizations-Project Management- Product testing and User Acceptance Testing

Mumbai Area, India

Managing the Buying & Merchandising of Apparels for all the company managed stores.Responsible for delivering the best sell thru'sDelivering the desired margins.Inventory ControlResponsibility of Stock turns & profitability at overall levelLiquidation & Mark down planningSetting up of processes

Mumbai

-Identifying stocks as per seasons -Allocating to the various locations -Replenishment of the stocks Managing replenishments of formal merchandises.-Prepare weekly and monthly MIS reports.-Plan the ordering of merchandise according to the season.-Prepare weekly and monthly MIS reports.-Coordinating with the factory regarding to dispatches of weekly replenished merchandises. -Setting up of base stocks for the stores according to their grades. -Calculations of… Show more -Identifying stocks as per seasons -Allocating to the various locations -Replenishment of the stocks Managing replenishments of formal merchandises.-Prepare weekly and monthly MIS reports.-Plan the ordering of merchandise according to the season.-Prepare weekly and monthly MIS reports.-Coordinating with the factory regarding to dispatches of weekly replenished merchandises. -Setting up of base stocks for the stores according to their grades. -Calculations of OTB for booking merchandise for the season. - Performing store visits in order to find out whether merchandises are reaching on time & also check the placements of the advertised articles. Show less

-Update products and prices in the system. -Prepare weekly and monthly MIS reports.-Allocating to the various locations -Replenishment of the stocks Managing replenishments of merchandise to offshore stores.

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