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Istanbul, Turkey

Building on 25 years of experience in apparel, fashion, retail, and textiles, I share industry insights through my YouTube channel. I create bilingual content in Turkish and English, analyzing global trends and providing actionable insights for professionals. My goal is to support stakeholders in making informed decisions and deliver value through engaging.

İstanbul, Türkiye

Istanbul, Turkey

• Full accountability for product technology, quality, sustainability, and ethics.
• Managing and leading the Garment Technology teams for entire development process, include maintaining the standards, patterns, tech packs, sample approval etc.
• Setting the technical, quality, sustainability, and ethical standards and outlining effective plans to meet targets
• Ensuring product development is in accordance quality, performance and margin requirements
• Partnering across all levels… Show more
• Partnering across all levels of Product Quality and Global Sourcing leadership to explore, solidify and present new product quality strategies and organizational transformation initiatives that achieve “Right First.

• Preparing and implementing Overseas Sourcing Strategy in short and long term.
• Sourcing and manage/maintain suppliers, to keep a long time and sustainable cooperation relationship.
• Continuously improving the supplier performance process and system and evaluating/monitoring supplier performances
• Managing supplier capacity and capability, and developing existing suppliers based on capacity and capability needs
• Improving and consolidating supply base
• Sourcing… Show more

Istanbul, Turkey

• Developing a long-term L&D plan aligned to the Company Strategy
• Developing and maintaining close working relationships with all key stakeholders, Working closely with Senior Stakeholders to secure appropriate L&D solutions
• Working closely with the Talent Management to secure appropriate initiatives to support the Talent Development
• Maintaining L&D policies and processes to support business goals
• Determining and monitoring KPI goals and training budgets. Monitor and report… Show more
• Determining and monitoring KPI goals and training budgets. Monitor and report on activities, costs, performance, etc.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Responsible for Buying, Merchandising and Sourcing departments process and system improvements
• Setting the department strategy and constantly review.
• Monitoring performance of related team in all aspect of production such as leadtimes, ontime delivery, quality etc. and ensuring the teams are aware of current performance.
• Strategic Supplier Management & Evaluation
• Monitor and review department performance for weekly review meetings, and discuss with teams
• Generating… Show more

Istanbul, Turkey

• Monitoring performance of sourcing team in all aspect of production such as delivery, quality etc. and ensuring the teams are aware of current performance.
• Monitor and review departmental performance for weekly review meetings, and discuss with teams
• Generating, analysing and review overall and departmental reporting e.g. delivery, leadtime, quality, order placements etc.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Responsible for Ladies and Men’s Jerseywear (circular knitwear) for all domestic and overseas production.
• Identifies suppliers suitable for styles handed in and target buying prices; starts sampling and costing with these suppliers.
• Requests the necessary supplier capacity from the Sourcing Department according to the sourcing budget at the beginning of the season and/or updates this capacity; asks for new suppliers if needed.
• Follows through the costing process; makes final… Show more
• Follows through the costing process; makes final negotiations and takes order placement decisions.
• Checks all approvals in collection and production processes including fit approvals; makes sure that products are supplied with target quality and price on target delivery dates.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Responsible for Ladies Jerseywear (circular knitwear) of BIB, Mama and LOGG Brands.
• Taking full responsibility from the time an order is received from the quotation team to the order having been shipped
• Analysing the order upon receipt together with the Senior Merchandiser. Checking if all details are correct
• Following up the order by using the Order Follow-up System and using deadlines as a help to keep track of order status
• Cooperating with the other teams such as… Show more
• Cooperating with the other teams such as Quotation team, Researcher and Developer (R&D), Technicians and Quality Assurance team

Istanbul, Turkey

• Responsible for jerseywear (circular knitwear) development and production of Puma, Adidas, Nike Global Sports brands.
• Dealing directly with clients and suppliers to create right collection,
• Capable managing sampling, and the costing process with the suppliers,
• Full responsibility from order stage till the shipment

Istanbul, Turkey

Working as an quality controller in Artwork Int. Sourcing Agency Office.Making inline and final inspections of the knitted and denim products.The main brands were Polo Raulph Lauren, Pepe Jeans, Calvin Klein etc...

Istanbul, Turkey

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Textile Engineering

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Master Of Business Administration