Junaid Sarfraz Email & Phone Number

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

Karachi

Pakistan

• Developing and adopting fruitful sourcing strategies to discover the most profitable suppliers and initiate business partnerships.
• Examine and re-evaluating existing contracts and negotiating with external vendors to secure the most advantageous terms in order to optimize spending in line with company strategy.
• Establishing, Track and report KEY functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness
• Responsibilities also includes to finalize details of orders and approval the ordering of necessary goods and services
• Developing alternate solutions across the board.
• Responsible to anticipate unfavorable events through analysis of data and implementing control strategies

Karachi

• Implementing shop merchandising, layout and customer traffic flow so as to maximize sales, customer satisfaction, appearance, image and ergonomics for customers
• Execution of sales promotional activities for awareness, faster off-takes for building brand image vis-à-vis new and existing products
• Managing selling and customer service activities and staff competence in these areas, so as to optimize and sustain sales performance, profitability and customer satisfaction
• Managing health and safety, security, and emergency systems, capabilities and staff and customer awareness, according to company policy and relevant law
• Managing, motivating staff and recruiting staff according to company policies and employment laws, and ensure relevant HR procedures are followed (appraisals, discipline, grievance, etc).
• Responsible for customer visits, floor discipline, stock availability, shrinkage control, control over old stock and negative & zero stocks

• Responsible for the daily management of floors, assigning duties to the staff, motivating them to increase sales and ensure store efficiency
• Analyzing store sales figures, developing, researching and implementing marketing strategies
• Maintaining awareness of market trends and monitoring local competitors, managing budgets set by the management
• Managing stock and addressing shrinkage and stock loss. Maintaining accurate records of all pricings, sales, and activity reports. Ensuring all corporate and local regulations and procedures are met and complied with
• Responsible for logistics & general administration
• Hands on grip on areas like economic performance follow-up, cash & credit reconciliations, cash office & management & customer services

Karachi

• Trained department managers and concern personals in stock taking procedures, procurement of non-trade items
• Responsible for reporting sales, shrinkages, financial issues to Finance department at Head Office
• Communicated regularly with commercial department for stock availability, prices or description changes, product displays etc.
• Responsibilities also included supervision of checkouts, cash office and goods receiving departments. Monitoring store P&L statements, targets achievement planning & execution with store management for sales, costs, &.
• Controlled issuance of purchase orders and corresponding CAPEX for non-trade supplies based on its use, management and distribution.
• Ensured proper handling and accurate book keeping of the petty cash fund, prepared MIS and shrinkage reports of all sales areas and submitted it to Store General Manager & respected ASGM (s) and compliance with.

Karachi

• The major project assignment was to support “MAKRO CASH & CARRY” to open first ever concept of wholesale cash & carry in Pakistan
• Provided on-location technical support for POS (Wincor Nixdorf) & WIFI Scales (Digi), Hewlett Packard systems & Printers, Zebra Barcode printers, Hand held terminals (Data-logic) configuration
• Supported IT team to build complete network which included WIFI, Cat6 & Fiber

Karachi

• Developed complete infrastructure of network that encompassed configuration & troubleshooting of system & servers. Mainly DOMAIN, DHCP & ISA
• Headed the IT team to monitor & troubleshoot all IT related issues

Karachi

• Provided hardware support, configured & troubleshot system & servers
• Supervised & provided direction to team members to continuously monitor, troubleshoot & remove system related issues