Designing, cataloguing, manufacturing party dresses for little angles

Working as procurement specialist with Lagardere Travel Retail for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia duty free business. Have a total of 8 years of MENA retail business experience. Managing multiple brands like Montblanc, Tumi, Hugo Boss, Lacoste, Armani, Luxottica Brands and many more. Ensuring proper supply chain management for all brands. Maintaining expenditures and revenues for each brand. Releasing orders based on historic sales, planned promotions, and upcoming key events.

Worked as Category Manager in Marks and Spencer, Al Futtaim for 5 years 1 month. I was managing 30% of total M&S business. We had 26 stores operational in 7 different markets across MENA. I was managing a team of Merchandiser, Assistant Merchandiser, and Allocators. I was responsible for buying, shipments, pricing, allocations, consolidations, promotions, sale marking, sales, range management, stock management, OTB, markdown, etc.

Responsible for the overall financial direction of the department with the goal of meeting/ exceeding sales, margin and turn targets. Primarily responsible for developing merchandise financial plans, devising promotion and great deals, planning replenishment items, developing and managing allocation strategy, and maintaining department’s open to buy. Providing in-depth analysis of product performance and make recommendations to maximize business opportunities. Setting a buying matrix for the products, ensuring that all the category are available as per the country’s requirement and analyzing the price point of the product as per the customer’s requirement,