Key Result Areas:▶ Anticipating demand within the Supply Matrix/Products and recommending suitable vendors to meet the organization's needs.▶ Ensuring that the new vendor understands the company's expectations comprehensively before onboarding▶ Performing a pre-onboarding SWOT analysis on a supplier.▶ Continuously working on enhancing vendor capability through regular evaluation meetings, recognizing that vendors are not born but built, to maintain a well-balanced supply base.▶ Organizing workshops with key suppliers periodically to reinforce adherence to company procedures.▶ Cultivating strategic relationships with vendors and engaging in collaborative planning to minimize lead times as per customer demand and schedules.▶ Organizing strategic meetings before the season begins to assess supplier performance and strategically determine the business volume with them for the upcoming season.▶ Highlighting Company KPIs (On-time delivery, Low-Quality Rejection, and Lead-time reduction) with vendors, providing alignment training, and conducting monthly reviews, offering feedback for performance communication.▶ Assessing supplier SWOT and providing constructive feedback to enhance performance, ensuring alignment with company expectations. ▶ Implementing a Supplier Improvement Plan (SIP) to enhance vendor performance, taking immediate action where necessary, and monitoring progress constructively.▶ Assessing global markets and providing updates to the management team to ensure a balanced business approach ▶ Streamlining department processes to optimize staffing levels, implementing metrics to track cost savings and the number of Purchase Orders (POs) issued.▶ Maintaining regular communication with the internal team to grasp the performance of each supplier.▶ Highlighting to the management, the global best practices that are widely adopted, in comparison to our current processes.

• Vendor Sourcing - Identification and development of suppliers as per the product and capacity requirement identified in the sourcing strategy.• Capacity planning with vendors based on projections from customer • Product Sourcing - Sourcing new products (materials-fabrics/trims and styles) based on needs and emerging trends internationally.• Product Development - Development of new designs to support quicker and shorter delivery lead time and ensuring the samples reaching to buyer as per scheduled plan.• Lead Time Negotiation – Responsible for lead time negotiation with vendor and buyer keeping the Capacity in mind. • Costing – Important process of sourcing carried out very cautiously. Open costing received from factory and it evaluated in each and every point in depth. Cross costing done and verified. Fabric price and consumption details verified which covers 70 % of costing. Over all multiple targets achieved successfully. • Production Planning & Follow up – Line/machine planning with suppliers and constant monitoring of critical path/T&A follow up to meet the production targets.• Quality Assurance Management • Market Trends - Continuously following it on market in terms of new styles, fabrics, trims, samples to promote new business opportunities.• Product Tracking – Strong follow up on T&A and managing the shipments based on shipping schedules with constant follow-up with suppliers and logistics.• Product Risk analysis• Vendor Management & Development – Build plans to grow category specific capabilities and technology up-gradation to support strategic plans for future allocation based on the KPI and developing new vendors for sourcing.• SWOT for supplier to evaluate their performance towards KPI and align them with expectations• Assume a coaching role in order to support and train subordinates.

• Working with buyers and suppliers for Product development / Order negotiation, Order Placement and execution / Delivery• Handled Merchandising, planning and execution of order to ensure timely delivery as per buyer requirement.• Working on style packages received, costing done, fabric booking, trims & accessories order and follow up.• Ensuring smooth functioning of the division and supervising daily co-ordination and communication activities.• Supervise and coordinate with suppliers and production, shipping and quality teams.• Building long tern relationships with clients by practicing customer service excellence, order execution through managing the lead time and delivering quality product on time.• Arranging the samples like Proto, Fit, Size set, PP and Shipment samples by coordinating with suppliers for timely order placement• Organising Pre-production meeting with suppliers for each style (according to delivery) before getting in to bulk cutting.• Coordinating with Product engineers to conduct Inline, Mid and Pre final inspections for timely delivery and quality as per customer requirement• Strong follows up on T& A on regular basis and achieved on time delivery successfully.• Product Categories - Knitted Kids wear • Visited the Market (France / Spain) for Negotiation

• Product Categories – Woven Ladies high value garments catered to USA • Buyers Managed – Macy’s and Bernard Fashions

• Product Categories – Knitted Ladies / Kids and Men garments catered to EU • Buyers Managed – Siplec , Auchan and Carrefour