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

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 Management, delivering strong SSPD/GMROF, Visual Merchandising, Best-In-Class customer service standards.• 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.• Marketing, Promotions & CRM: Retail activation and execution of BTL activities to drive channel sell through, secondary sales, brand promotion, advertisement campaign planning and product launches.

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 Materials & Finished Goods. *Range Creation: review & approval of entire product line, every season.*Sub brand Extension: strategize LP Sport & LP Jeans expansion plan in order to make it a 1000 Cr brand.*OTB planning: to capture the current trend & infusion of merchandise in between the season.

• 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.

• “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.

• “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.

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