 Heading the purchase team for procuring the products for 19 stores with the team to maintain proper stocking as per branch wise movement. Introducing new product/titles on monthly basis.  Negotiating with vendors/manufacturers for better price or margins. Good hands-on experience of handling the Product selections in international market and do branch distributions of imported stocks and pricing for branch to be sold with good margin. Led the development of an exclusive products with vendor to drive better sales in the competition market. Analyzing the sales of a product/titles branch wise movement and timely replenishment. Analyzing the supplier wise sales, purchase, returns and maintain proper stocks accordingly. Coordinating with branches on non-movement stock and try to liquidate through other branches or return to vendor wherever possible.  Regularly visiting and coordinating with the branch heads and the sales executives and understand their needs and problems if any regarding sales, stocks and display. Coordinating with vendor/manufacture for promotions of a particular product/title/brand and run an offers/sale for a month to generate additional sales on regular intervals for the year. Taken care of branding and promotion of vendor/manufacturer product/title and make sure additional income to the company.

 Placing orders for new product/titles, follow up with publishers for returns and negotiating better terms. Checking the movement of bestselling and availability of stock.  To ensure the distribution of new products on time. Sending month on month ledger to the customer and collecting payment on time. Interacting with customers on regular basis and analyzing to improve our service. Maintaining a register (In system – COR) for customer order and regular orders to procure & supply the non-available stock to achieve 100% fulfillment. Analyzing customer wise sales on monthly basis. Analyze customer wise vendor/manufacturer wise sales and maintain the stock based on the movement as per the customer requirements. To ensure branch meet agreed target and achieve set gross margins. Handling Amazon account from June 2014. Product creation / replenishment of stock / price fixing / checking competitor price. Checking aged stock at branches and select the titles to sell in amazon by offering high discount. Checking the inactive titles and fixing the issues. Improve listing quality of the listed titles.

 Primary aim to meet budgeted trade sales targets by publishing lines with requisite margins & provide line manager with such information on a regular basis, as well as provide weekly / Quarterly sales report as & when needed. Achieving trade net sales top line target profitably by individual publishing line, interacting on a regular basis with supplying publishers on net prices, media copies / Reading copies and credit notes. To ensure company achieve set minimum gross margins on all transactions.  To ensure company meet agreed purchase target with the Distributor and Retailers. From marketing point of view is to ensure adequate retails display of the POS material & to maintain good relationship with regional media and proper coordination for promotion. Identify and maintain regular contact with key / relevant media in the territory. To co-ordinate with marketing team to conduct events successfully.

Buyer For Non Fiction (Covering 22 stores, which includes, 17 large format stores, 7 hotel bookshops, 3 Airport counters)Actively involved in procuring books to all locationsCareer Growth Achieved with M/s. LandmarkJoined as Sales Assistant - Stores (Books) in February 2006Elevated as Books Merchandiser for Chennai - in November 2006Elevated as Regional Merchandiser for Chennai and Bangalore - May 2008Elevated as Books Merchandiser for All India - February 2010Elevated as Non Fiction Buyer for All India; Various Responsibilities Handled in the past 5 years:As the Book MerchandiserPreparation of Buying Plan: Forecasting the sales of a season and based on that deriving the open to buy (Quantity and Value) for the sameReplenishments: Making the replenishments on a regular basis to avoid any lost opportunityStock transfers and liquidation of slow moversVendor development & management to ensure that vendors are effectively delivering as per the contracts, recommends removal of vendors based upon performance, develop vendors and give effective feedbackCustomer requests & orders are executed on timeBuilding new vendor networkOrder Processing for procurementPromoting new productsAchieving the sales targets for the month/yearAccounts & FinanceCoordination / Liaison with accounts department and reconcile the account for book vendorsReleasing the payment for the suppliers every month based on the salesBack office OperationsInitially handled manual back end operations for booksHeaded the centralized back end operations for books with 10 staff Managing Books Goods Inwards, Outwards and Inventory ManagementInvoicing / Pricing / labeling for Books

CONNEXIONS Career Growth Achieved with M/S.ConnexionsJoined as Cashier in June 2003Elevated as Customer service executive in June 2004Elevated as Head of Books in June 2005Head of Section- BooksMaintaining the book section and handling complaints, queries and providing friendly customer service.Maintaining the New Arrivals and "In the News" racks Analyzing the Products supplier wise and preparing purchasing orders for Suppliers Verifying consignments, segregation, displaying books and maintaining the forthcoming reports.Categorizing the books and displaying at the right shelfGiving presentations about the Authors / books / and for the forthcoming titles Giving feedback to the customer orders at the committed date Arranging special display for Autographed copies and discounted booksResponsible for monitoring controlling and encouraging the junior team mates in their performance in order to fulfill the company's corporate objectives.