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Burnaby, BC, CA

Burnaby, BC, CA

Vancouver, BC, CA

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

• Develop business plans that drove profitable revenue and consistently met revenue targets for each vendor
• Build and maintain strong relationships with vendor partners, resulting in increased vendor satisfaction and improved business performance
• Manage vendor P&L and effectively control costs while generating revenue through creative sales strategies
• Collaborate with marketing team managers to improve marketing and sales metrics across channels, resulting in increased revenue and profitability
• Analyze market and competition to meet company expectations in driving sales, margin, and service levels from vendors, and identify new opportunities to expand eCommerce footprint
• Implement purchasing and sales agreements, including rebates, vendor compliance policies, and procedures, resulting in improved vendor performance and increased revenue

North Vancouver, BC, CA

• Building top-down multi-channel merchandise plans by region, market, gender, and category
• Owning the reconciliation of bottoms-up merchandise/buying plans back up to finance budgets
• Analyzing the historical data, trending information and other available data to develop and maintain an accurate forecast at SKU level by season, period and beyond
• Owning the forecast accuracy and its continuous improvement for the menswear.
• Developing and implementing sales solutions for inventory optimization through allocation and markdown recommendations
• Performing in season analyses to ensure that there is enough product available to meet sales targets and merchandise standards, and communicating to the appropriate teams when deviations occur

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

• SKU level forecasting for future demand
• Forecasted monthly revenue and ensuring category profitability by tracking & optimizing sell through
• Developed annual category budget
• Led pricing & promotional strategy for each SKU
• Analyzed business & profitability
• Identified gap, building & forecasting optimal product assortment

Shuwaikh, Shuwaikh, KW

Shuwaikh, Shuwaikh, KW

• Analyzed market trends along with retail study, competition analysis, past performance and seasonal demands to formulate a buying practice in line with consumers’ /store demands
• Responsible for E-commerce buying and maintaining future fulfillment needs and records by evaluating prior sales
• Responsible for product development, pricing, vendor management, PO creation/updating, shipping instruction and timely delivery of goods.
• Worked on the supplier’s capacities for allocating and placing orders. Visited and reviewed factories.
• Produced In-depth sales trend analysis and track the performance of the SKUs / products with the plan and highlight and analyze the areas where there are variances to the plan
• Developed sales forecasts for each SKU by carefully analyzing the sales trend, stock volumes, marketing plans, seasonal properties so that an optimum stock level can be arrived at time

Dubai, AE

• Launched in UAE in May 2004, Max is today the largest value fashion retail chain in the Middle East. Max caters to the mid market section of the population.With stores that typically measure 18,000 - 30,000 sq. ft..
• Assisted and executed in planning the buying calendar in line with Inflow Pattern and the season calendar of the Stores.
• Understood the design element and the signature of the product in the department and to know the taste of the customer
• Product review, design and development.
• Vendor management & development, Assisted the suppliers with all necessary assistance in ensuring timely delivery of goods, understanding of orders and shipment terms / LC terms.
• Monitored the Budget Order; Order GRN; Inflow pattern Reports on weekly basis.

• Responsible from materials supply till shipment for all six factories.
• Monitored all preproduction procedures like Fabric inspection, Shrinkage testing, Marker checking, Shade approvals, Wash approvals and different type of samples required time to time.
• Visited new factories to review the capacity, facilities, Capabilities, Compliance for future order booking.
• Accounts handled: Wal-Mart, Kohl’s, Jones Apparel Group, Kmart- Sears, JMS, Gymboree & Target.
• Products handled: Woven items with various fabric constructions, composition, washes & finishes.

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Bachelor Of Fashion Technology, Apparel Production, Merchandising, Planning, Marketing & Quality