Kumar Harshit Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, KA, IN

India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Heading Van Heusen Retail Business for "Emerging Markets" of India.Leading teams across Buying & Merchandising, Planning, Retail Operations, Retail Business Development and Category Management.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Head of Large Format Retail (LFR) Stores with P&L accountability of over 1200 Shop-In-Shops across India.
• Financial: P&L accountability to deliver 400+ Cr topline for the brand, across all Large Format Retail (LFR) Stores of India, delivering Gross Profit & CBA targets.
• Business Expansion: Relationship building with the LFR chains, rapid expansion of the brand.
• Sales Operations: To manage sales operation for 1200+ Shop-In-Shops (SIS), across India. Key business indicators being - Primary & Secondary NSV, Sellex Management, Discount Management, Stock Turns & Returns.
• Merchandise Buying & Planning / Inventory Management: Responsible for leading the Planning, Buying and Allocation team.
• People Management: Heading a team of over 1500 on-role sales staffs with Area Sales Managers and Regional Sales Managers.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Head of category for LP Sport & LP Jeans.*Financial: To deliver budgeted sales and profit numbers for all retail channels and to increase revenue for the sub brand (FY’17 Revenue - 450 Cr).*Profitability: Enable better gross profit realizations for the sub brand (Ebitda – 18%)*Sourcing & Inventory Management: Plan right sources & liquidation, for Raw.

Bengaluru Area, India

• VM execution in Allen Solly women’s wear POS (50 stores, PAN India), for better sell through.
• Research & innovative concepts for Allen Solly Kids product.
• Understanding of different functions & processes of a brand.

Bengaluru Area, India

• “Quality Improvement & Up-gradation”. (Jan 2008 – April 2008).
• To recommend areas of improvement for knitwear – t shirts & sweaters, for Louis Philippe, Van Heusen & Allen Solly.
• Product & Process improvement at Garment Manufacturing Units.

Bengaluru Area, India

• “Quality Improvement & Up-gradation“&“Customer Complaint Handling”.
• Ergonomics at workplace, in manufacturing units of Madura Fashion & Lifestyle.
• Product & Process improvement at Garment Manufacturing Units, for shirts for Louis Philippe, Van Heusen & Allen Solly.

Mumbai Area, India

• Understanding of processes & life cycle of a product, at the textile mill. Complete understanding of textile.

Certification Programme, Marketing For Non Marketing Professionals

Bachelor Of Fashion Technoloy, Apparel Manufacturing & Information Technology

Education record