To take a challenging and high performanceoriented role in the field of Apparel production, Buying and Merchandising, and implementing the expertise and experience gained in the field to develop and handle complex projects with efficiency and quality.
Participated in workshops focused on key professional skills like networking, interviewing, and presentation. Gained insights into KPMG’s services and career opportunities. Engaged with professionals and graduates to learn about career paths in a global consulting environment. Enhanced understanding of strategic career development and industry expectations.
* Collaborate closely with the Category Manager to ensure efficient procurement and inventory management. * Engage in market visits, trend forecasting, range planning, and sales analysis, contributing to the selection of the right product mix. * Write, place, and monitor purchase orders, ensuring timely acquisition of materials at competitive prices and specification adherence. * Plan, monitor, and optimize inventory levels, compiling reports on product performance and statistics. * Maintain awareness of home and market trends, oversee the buying office for each season, and upload item manifests. * Review the marketplace for price comparisons, create purchase orders, coordinate internal approvals, handle invoices, and ensure smooth supply chain operations, including monitoring upcoming shipments and maintaining accurate manifests.
• Generate weekly purchase orders, SOH report and introduce new products, incorporating precise details regarding delivery terms, payment terms, delivery dates, cost prices, Retail selling price and propose re-orders to the buyer providing all information to relevant parties in the planning and supply chain. • Assist the buying team in analyzing sales data for future range learnings, prepare data in excel and maintain shared files, in order to ensure common information is updated and available to all team members. • Follow up on agreed shipment dates, making sure of timely dispatch of goods from supplier and to track receipts internally, in order to ensure all stock arrives on time to deliver the stock and sales plan. • Liaise with buying team and QC team, in order to ensure all confirmation samples, receive comments within 48 hours to keep to critical path and minimize production delays. • Match invoices with buyer’s orders and ensure any discrepancies against the order and proforma are duly addressed, in order to ensure queries are escalated to all stakeholders. • Prepare sell off reports with pictures as requested by season, in order to highlight best and worst selling styles to assist with future range development.
• Graduation Project “MCDM tool for evaluation and selection of Supplier for table programs ” • Manage samples requested for approval are received in time. • Update and maintain shipment tracker to provide visibility of goods and highlight any issues or delays to the buyer which could affect sales. • Responsible for the end-to-end management of PLM (product lifestyle management) to ensure the system is managed effectively as well as to provide visibility of all activity linked to a product /order.
*Project: “VISUAL MANAGEMENT OF THE FLOOR” &“CAPACITY IMPROVEMENT IN MADE-TO-MEASURE (MTM)AND BULK IN TROUSER LINE”. *Pre-COO visits visual floor management that involves troubleshooting, process sheet updates, application for visual factory idea, corner update excellence, SQDCMEBoard update for the Trouser Line. *The capacity study, involvement study, the effectiveness of the operator, the study of the skill matrix, bottleneck identification, analyze them all in order to remove operators by clubbing to or more operations and removal.
I have worked on software like Zen desk, Exigo, UPS shipping. • My work was to interact with customers and work on operations like Login Help, Order Refund, Status Tracking, Subscription Cancellation, and many more. • Managing large amounts of inbound and outbound email in a timely manner • Identify customers’ needs, clarify information, research every issue, and provide solutions and alternatives
• Drives sales through the engagement of customers, suggestive selling, and sharing product knowledge. • Assists with inventory, including receiving and stocking merchandise • Greets and receives customers in a welcoming manner.
My work was to -: Seo related work Ideate with different content categories. Create and curate content for those verticals. Data research on the content vertical.