Buyer (Manager)
Reliance Retail
Total des années d'expérience :11 years, 3 Mois
Managing the women's wear brand for reliance trends & Ajio.com format
Oversee overall category plans in the areas of pricing, promotion, assortment and allocation for each sub-category
Providing direction to buyers to plan and edit brand & product assortments
Overseeing overall category plans in the areas of pricing, promotion, assortment and allocation for each sub-category
Product Identification: Identifying the right product as per the seasonal requirement to cater to the right business type
P&L Management: Working Cross-functionally with Marketing/Social Media Team, and Brand partners to meet the Top Line and Bottom line targets of lifestyle Category
Buying Functions: Develop knowledge specific buying function; including merchandise selection, pricing, planning and marketing
Supplier Health: Monitoring breadth & depth of inventory, Sold-outs, Refunds, escalations, Active Suppliers, Orders frequency & prepare a Balance Scorecard to share with Suppliers gives them valuable insights to identify strategies to grow business
Strategic Tie-ups: Collaborating with interested brands & designers for exclusive visibility & promotions to generate higher value & growth. collaborated with designers like Rajesh pratap singh, Anita Dongre, Neeta Lulla, Shantanu & Nikhil etc.
Site taxonomy: Maintain and update site taxonomy for expanding or emerging product categories
Marketing: coordinating with the digital marketing team to identify the right keywords for google ads & socal media planning & targeting the right E-mailer group
Cbazaar is among the earliest eCommerce companies in India, when eCommerce was largely unheard off, even in the west! It has introduced made to measure attribute in India at their online store. Shipping globally to more than 180+ countries like India USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Middle East. Cbazaar has been awarded by the Newsweek on America's Best Online Shops 2020 under single brand fashion which were identified after passing a number of tests based on 48 objective and subjective criteria.
Have increased the market share of the north zone suplliers by 3X with a strong bend towards product, competition & consumer insights. Planning and developing the product range and finalising the pricing strategy, Work closely with vendor and engage them in joint business plans with a promise of growth and scale, Worked with merchandising teams on promotional planning and merchandising
Responsible for vendor onboarding, relationship management, P&L, sale event planning with cross functional teams. Improving customer engagement through site presentation & in-store customer experience. Directing the activities related to costing, MRP, margin, category and sourcing. Selecting merchandise from the brand for the season. Execute on-going competitive analysis as well as recommended strategies and tactics to improve our value equation to the customer.
Buying solutions is a buying house based in Delhi NCR dealing with home furnishing & furniture categories at large. I have joined this agency from its inception & successfully introduced 3 Buyers from U.S., Europe & UK with annual business of 20-25 CR. Managed & handled these buyers with end to end operations from sampling & production till deilvery independently. Some of the KPI's are as mentioned below:
• Communicating with buyers and handling the Product development Process of Bed sheets, quilts, Cushion Covers, Carpets & Rugs, Furnitures from the manufacturing units.
• Coordinating with shipping agencies/ Courier Company for exports.
• Getting sample approvals from buyer.(Feather & Black, HHL, Baby face, Kymo Germany)
• Entry of Inspection sheet on Dashboard (SAP).
• Taking follow up from QC’s and ensures production being done at manufacturing unit.
• Getting export documents & custom shipping bills from consolidator and maintaining files for the same.
• Coordinating with accountant for vat and TDS returns and ensuring all returns are filed on time.
• Coordinating with accountant for account purpose and ensuring that balance sheet and profit and loss account is made.
Business of (Apparel & Textile Merchandising) Retail Management, Marketing, Merchandising, Buying, International Business, Textile etc