Key Responsibilities:- Category Strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive category strategy to achieve sales, margin, and profitability targets.- Assortment Planning: Identify and curate the right product mix by understanding customer preferences, market trends, and competitive landscape.- Vendor Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with vendors and suppliers to ensure the availability of products at competitive prices.- Pricing and Promotions: Optimize pricing strategies and promotional plans to maximize sales and profitability while staying competitive in the market.- Inventory Management: Ensure optimal stock levels by working closely with the supply chain team to avoid stockouts or overstock situations.- Performance Analysis: Monitor and analyze category performance, identifying areas of improvement and implementing corrective actions as needed.- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with marketing, operations, and finance teams to align category plans with overall business objectives.- Customer Insights: Leverage customer data and insights to inform category decisions and improve customer experience.- Market Trends: Stay updated on industry trends, competitor activities, and emerging opportunities to keep the category ahead of the curve

• P & L Management - Deliver targeted sales and profit numbers for the brand across 7 different revenue channels • Retail Business development - Expand the brand footprint through profitable retail & wholesale network• Product Management - Development & co-creation of innovative products with textile mills & garment manufacturing units• Supply Chain management - Managing entire lifecycle of the product by procuring raw material and finished goods from domestic & international bases, supervising manufacturing processes, ensuring planned delivery to retail stores, and liquidating dormant inventory• Merchandise planning - Managing Discounts, category-wise contribution, inventory, assortment planning, and acting on qualitative inputs for continuous growth• Brand Marketing & Communication - Build strong brand equity through multiple Above-The-Line and Below-The-Line marketing interventions• People management - Recruitment, training & development of the front end & back-end operations team

The main responsibility was to deliver the budgeted sales and profit numbers for Louis Philippe in Large Format stores by – buying correct merchandise and managing inventory effectively while keeping discount & dormancy within norms. Key responsibilities included:• P & L Management - Meet the targeted sales and profit number for the brand, while keeping discount and dormancy within norms• Partner Engagement - Manage relationship with external partners and finalize margins and terms of trade for the business• Operational Excellence - Ensure seamless back-end and front-end integration to give best-in-class service to customers• Micro-Merchandising - Buying merchandise relevant to each store & managing inventory effectively so as to create adequate freshness for all stores• Market Share - Strengthen the footprint of the brand by increasing the market share of the brand in the operating market

As Product Manager, the major responsibility was to handle the complete product portfolio of Louis Philippe Jeans, sub-brand of Louis Philippe. The key accountability included: • New Product Development - Launch new & innovative merchandise and frame key initiatives for the success of the brand• Merchandise Planning - Finalize the product category wise assortment and range architecture for all the categories• Cost Management - Improve net gross profit realization by optimizing overall COGS• Vendor Management - Regularly supervise textile mills & manufacturing units to ensure fabric and garment quality standards are followed for all the product categories• Benchmarking - Benchmark the brand against domestic and international competition brands

The following projects were done :1. Competition Mapping and Assortment Planning for launch of LP Jeans EBO 2. Fit Standardization for LP Sport & LP Jeans Shirts

Project done was based on:1. E-catalogue: Digitization of physical catalogue of Peter England Core Formal Shirts2. Development of an iPad application for Peter England Season Booking3. Study of ARS: Core Shirts4. Analysis of Cost of Quality

Gained experience of the usage of RFID technology on the production floor. Also, analyzed the problems incurred and advantages of this technology.Main focus was on:1. Study of RFID Implementation2. Analysis by comparison of Progressive Bundle System and UPS System

Arvind Mills is India's largest denim fabric manufacturer.In the one month internship, all the various processes were studied in detail. Project was done based on the following :1. Effect of Conditioning on Physical Properties of Denim Fabric2. Analysis of Cationic and Silicon Softener on Properties of Denim Fabric.3. Analysis of Different types of Dry and Wet Denim Washing