Hatice Tuyan

- Manage the full product lifecycle from order to delivery, including all aspects of critical path management. - Lead communication with factories in the Far East and customers to ensure alignment on timelines, quality, and approvals. - Direct approval workflows for samples, lab dips, strikes offs, and production testing; attend fit sessions and relay feedback. - Collaborate with QA teams to meet safety, chemical, and physical testing standards (especially for children's accessories). - Support cost control measures, resolve issues impacting delivery/margin, and maintain up-to-date production documentation. - Drive continuous process improvement and represent merchandising within cross-departmental teams.

- Manage critical paths from sales to delivery for UK high street retailers, including George, Very, Boohoo Group, New Look, Next, among others. - Meet tight deadlines by working closely with overseas factories. - Negotiate with factories to reduce production costs, and reach agreements with brands to increase profitability. - Critical path management, including overseas and UK suppliers as well as licensors. - Inspection of production samples and fit samples to ensure that they meet the quality requirements of the customer. - Ensure that lab dips, bulk fabrics, and trims meet the specifications of customers. - Review and approve test reports. - Make orders for fabrics, labels, and trims taking into consideration the MOQ and the production deadline. - Processing orders through each customer portal and taking any necessary action. - Organize licensing samples for licensor approvals and follow up on licensor requirements. - Visiting Turkish factories before/during production to ensure deadlines are met. Supporting Role: Sustainability & Compliance Advisor - Make sure that all suppliers comply with the licensing regulations of the licensors, such as Disney, and WB, on a daily basis. - Maintaining compliance with environmental/sustainable regulations while supporting the implementation of the Functional Health Safety Quality and Environment Strategy. - Promote sustainability awareness throughout the organization. - Establish sustainability targets and develop strategies for achieving them. - Develop and implement environmental policies and practices for customers. - Responsible for monitoring and reporting compliance risks on a daily basis. - Assure that compliance procedures, systems, and controls are up-to-date and effective - A supplier onboarding process is followed to add new suppliers to the customer database and to monitor annual audits, security audits, and technical audits.

- Undertook for purchasing a wide range of products of high value and strategic importance - Oversaw the OTB process within the buying team while maintaining an adequate budget to support new, exclusive, and growth initiatives while managing risk in a declining business. - Built and maintained relationships with key vendors in order to improve pricing, terms, and quality of service - Negotiated with suppliers in order to maximize profitability - Worked with merchandising and eCommerce to develop a channel and range that meets business objectives. - Prepared competitive retail and pricing strategies. - Compiled reports on product performance and statistics.

Ayaydin-Miroglio is one of the leading companies in the luxury womenswear sector in Turkey with 236 local and 39 global stores in 9 countries. - Researched potential suppliers in Turkey, developed stronger relationships with existing suppliers, and created an extensive supply chain database. - Generated and implemented efficient sourcing and category management strategies - Defined sourcing and supplier strategy, owning and managing/sustaining key relationships. - Analyzed data to maximize profit and minimize markdowns. - Selected the factory, negotiated the cost, placed the order, managed production, and ensured that all purchases are completed on time. - Responsible for leading the development of the new season by negotiating prices, completing supply agreements, and managing the supply chain. - Maintained deadlines by supervising assistant merchandisers and garment technicians. Oversaw the production by attending weekly CP meetings. - Owned critical path management, to minimize any possible risks, and reported to higher management. - Organized and executed fit sessions and analyzed fit comments. Led garment tech to send fit comments to suppliers. - Negotiated the cost of products with suppliers for an optimum outcome. - Responsible for coordinating the capsule and collaboration collections, which included a variety of products. - Built strategies, plans, and trades for the department in collaboration with the wider business.

- Developed business opportunities with target brands. - Collaborated closely with the design team to serve the needs of existing and potential brands. - Maintained product development timelines and ensured the design and development cycles. - Compiled initial costing, and communicated cost challenges to design & production teams. - Made sourcing plans according to the requirements (quality, price, speed) of the clients. - Researched the market for new product development.

Manage the global sourcing in Turkey, Hong Kong, China, and India for Twist. (Including supplier communication, quality assurance, planning, and budgeting).

Report to Senior Merchandiser on supplier communication, quality assurance, planning and run the operational tasks.

Analyse tests that need to be run for each product, report test results to the client, and manage customer relations.