Neha Sharma Email and Phone Number

- Categories Managed - Furniture, Decorative Accessories (Hard Home), Beauty and Health, Sports, Party And Gift Wraps - End to end vendor management- New vendor sourcing and development. - Business Development and Growth- Cross country vendor and product growth and development- Development and production management

• Key Customer – Hudson’s Bay Canada• End-to-end product sourcing and development – Soft Home• Production cycle management• Vendor and customer management• Cost negotiations• Cross functional team management• Problem Solving and fire fighting

• Sourcing a wide variety of products at the best price based on the look and saleability of the products. • Strategising and analysing data to arrive at the calendar plan per month. • Price negotiations and costing – back calculating the cost price based on what I think the best saleable MRP would be. • Giving design inputs to manufacturers / vendors to a small extent. • Co-ordinating with other teams and ensuring that deadlines are met.• Vendor management – point of contact for over 100 vendors for my categories, solving any issues they may have regarding the products featured, warehousing operations or finance related issues, planning future events with them. • Firefighting and solving operations and finance related issues.

- • Conceptualized and built a start-up and made it a self sustaining unit within 5 years.- • Planning and overseeing product development- • Worked across the value chain from sourcing to vendor management- • End to end business process management and driving quality systems and processes- • Participated in premiere trade shows globally as well as locally

- • Streamlining of the purchasing process for Kohl's, a large wholesale retailer based in the USA, for the categories of outdoor furniture, Christmas decorations and table top- • Drove sourcing, quality check, pricing and product development as per the client’s expectations

- Led quality check, product development and sourcing for indoor furniture, lamps and food categories for clients such as Olde World Furniture and Cost Plus World Market.

- • Driving and supporting end to end regional sales and marketing strategy offering mobile communications as a service.- • Responsible for entry into a new vertical by signing on Park Hotels as a client.

- • Marketing trainee for restaurant sales promotions and store tie up.