Nidhi Puri Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Inspiring, Leading & Elevating Product Quality, Safety & Regulatory Compliance Teams . Leading A&A Quality Ecosystem Across Supply Chain For Fortune 50 company with $66B revenue. Target teams in 18 offices, 10+ countries, 40+ COP’s across 1700+ factories!!

New York City, Ny, Us

•Strategically led the digital product development, raw material supply chain, production, and fit process for the $740 million omni channel division for Fortune 500 company.•Inspired and developed high performing team of 27 technical designers, fabric, sourcing, and product experts, across the US, Africa, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India. •Orchestrated Digital Transformation through change management across Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein businesses to achieve KPI of 81% reduction in physical samples. •Develop in collaboration with brand president, first of its kind apparel concept to consumer sustainable supply chain pipeline in East Africa to accelerate business growth resulting in additional 20% LDP savings. Digitizing raw material management process to unlock procurement and speed. •Set strategic direction to right sizing and optimize teams across the globe to balance the right talent doing the right work in the right place. Reduced turnover, increased talent efficiency by 40% and achieved 87% in Employee engagement survey. •Launched Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning driven fit sizing strategy based on US consumer body data study, driving 40% higher SKU efficiency, and optimizing inventory. •Built a robust raw material and vendor sourcing strategy across division to meet and exceed brand’s digital goals, whilst optimizing supply & demand, procuring capacity, and driving sustainable/ traceable supply base transition.

New York City, Ny, Us

•Engineered and implemented responsive digital supply chain model for speed and margin optimization. •Drove virtual approvals across Menswear and Boys woven and knits reducing sampling cost by $420,000. •Established a supplier fit certification process enabling the brands to digitize the process pipeline to achieve 90% certification of strategic suppliers. •Executed PLM/3D integration, Tech Pack accuracy KPI’s, Entify costing/ Microsoft Excel tool and Risk Assessment process, across the supply chain to drive operational excellence and cost efficiency.

•Managed US & global team of technical designers, product developers and pattern-makers to drive growth for Womenswear brands worth $2.6 billion; INC, Alfani, Charter Club & Millennial brands.•Supervised teams on key fit projects to share consumer insights & data analysis to educate district stores and Macys.com business partners. Successfully launch e-comm product elevation training. •Ensured raw material developments were supporting seasonal and long-term strategic opportunities across all brands to maximize innovation, flexibility, and quality, drive over $90M in fabric savings. •Guided teams through the development and launch of new Millennial brand- ‘Maison Jules’ and Latina brand ‘Thalia.’

•Implemented tech pack accuracy process across brands, increasing accuracy from 49% to 90%.•Established grade rules, developed block patterns & streamlined fits for brands resulting in 30% reduced sam-pling. •Implemented on-site factory training, increasing first fit approval to over 65%.

San Francisco, California, Us

•Oversee product and manage team handling underwear, active wear and swimwear categories.•Led the project of mannequin development for Gap Inc.; soft mannequins were rolled out across all brands.•Collaborated with Store leads to create an innovative solution reducing out of package returns by 15%

San Francisco, California, Us

•Developed fit blocks for underwear & underwired swim tops to drive fit consistency & shorter lead times.•Facilitated, organized & prioritized technical processes that resulted in 93% on-time delivery.

Organizational Leadership

Associate In Applied Sciend, Fashion Buying And Merchandising

Post Graduate Certification In Fashion Design And Garment Construction, Pattern Making, Draping

Accounting Major, Business And Accounting