Sr. Merchandise Planner/ Buyer
Apparel Group
Total years of experience :14 years, 8 Months
•Currently Managing Buying & Merchandising for
ALDO.
•Handling Planning, Merchandising & Buying for Footwear.
• Range Selection & Development
• Managing Buying & Merchandising for License
products.
• Range Selection & Development .
• Resolving of quality related issues for assuring
quality standards in the products for increasing
sales and market share for the company.
• Travelling to Factories in China, involved in
initial sampling to end product development.
• Price negotiation with Suppliers to ensure we
maintain our said intake & exit margin.
• Manage the Wholesale distribution.
• Strong negotiation skills that achieve target
intake margins agreed for the season.
• Managing Stock Inflows in Alison with
Suppliers.
• Taking appropriate in-season action; repeats,
cancellations, order re-scheduling and mark
downs to ensure
• Preparing seasonal & annual sales budget,
buying budget & OTB’s.
• Forecasting sales on regular basis.
• Overlooking buying budgets & preparing OTB
sheets.
• Responsible for managing stock cover’s.
• Looking after entire activities pertaining to
allocation of new merchandise.
• Responsible for planning sales activities and
achieving set goals & objectives within time \
budget restraints.
• Scheduling of products list for seasonal launch
and supervising stores for supplying seasonal
products as such to emerge the business
venture.
• Part of MILANO buying team .
• Milano is one of the known fashion footwear brand in G.C.C.
• Range Selection & Development for Men’s footwear range.
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• Price negotiation with Suppliers to ensure we maintain our said intake & exit margin.
• Coordinating a team of 3 Asst. Buyers & Merchandisers in day to day affairs.
• Range Selection along with the Buying Head for our in-house brands which implements todays fashion trends and is dynamic for the market. Managing Cost & Retail Prices to achieve the set margins.
• Manage the seasonal budget alongside the Planning team to deliver our KPIs, LFL sales, weekly and monthly budget achievements, entry and exit margins.
• Strong negotiation skills that achieve target intake margins agreed for the season.
• Managing Stock Inflows in Alison with Suppliers.
• Converting budgets and store grading into realistic buys and quantities.
• Taking appropriate in-season action; repeats, cancellations, order re-scheduling and mark downs to ensure
• Responsible for over viewing business in 5 Countries.
• Preparing seasonal & annual sales budget, buying budget & OTB’s.
• Forecasting sales on regular basis.
• Overlooking buying budgets & preparing OTB sheets.
• Responsible for managing stock cover’s.
• Looking after entire activities pertaining to allocation of new merchandise.
• Responsible for planning sales activities and achieving set goals & objectives within time \ budget restraints.
• Scheduling of products list for seasonal launch and supervising stores for supplying seasonal products as such to emerge the business venture.
• Resolving of quality related issues for assuring quality standards in the products for increasing sales and market share for the company.
• Planning \ budgeting \ administering the process for procuring merchandise and drafting of OTB sheets allied with the organization.
• Accountable for allocating, distributing & dispatching of stock for maintaining inventory levels with essential stock as such to provide as and when required.
• Handling the movement of terminal stock & markdowns and making up of decisions for purchasing of required products with quality assurance.
• Excellent in increasing sales for organizational brands, controlling sales promotion activities as per organizational set polices \ procedures.
• Skilled in purchasing accurate merchandise implementing quality standards within set budget targets for providing goods promptly.
• Strong interpersonal and analytical skills in interacting with department, personnel, clients with a consistent record of forging strong relationships.
• Managing the Sales & Buying budget and buying according to the business requirement.
• Liase with suppliers & imports team for fluent inflow of stocks.
• Monitor Inventory Levels & keep ageing stock in control.
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