Clothing Sourcing, Marketing, Merchandising and Production Management

Product Development & Merchandising, Designing Interface with the Buyers to identify specifications for Apparel. Research & develop new fabrics with Mills and Vendors. Interface with Vendors for costing of garments in line with budgeted parameters. Identify and develop a reliable Vendor base across Bangladesh and overseas. Follow up on Production status at Vendor locations; monitor processes, identify deviations and implement corrective action.

* Merchandising and Vendor Matrix Management.
* Overseeing a base of 12 Vendors
* Estimation Of Target Price
* Selection Of Right Source
* Problem Solver
* Buying Agency, Catalysts
* Optimization Of Taxes and Duties
* Best Price Selection

Key Accounts:
Reitman’s (Canada), Pennington (Canada), Jean Shop (Canada, RW & CO. (Canada)

* Key focus is on Sourcing in Bangladesh for the EU market for a customer profile including High-end brands, retailers.

* Managed a team of 8 personnel; including a Sample In charge, Pattern Maker, Merchandisers and development coordinators who helps in following through on Merchandising, Product Development and Execution.

* Responsibilities included Product Development, Sourcing and Production

* A key accountability includes managing Cost of Operations and People Management.

* Grew Knit business from under US$ 1M in 2008 to close at US$ 3M in the year 2009.

* Growth target for the year closing 2010 was US$ 6M.

* Acquired insight into working of EU Retail Markets through research into customer markets / product lines; working closely with the other Teams collaboratively to create a product line and make presentations accordingly.

Key Accounts:

Ernsting’s Family, ADLER, REA, RAT, GHD, Sport Promotion Service, Wehmeyer, CASAMODA.

Responsible for a team of marketing and merchandising, production management, sampling, fit & pre-production approvals, fabric & trim approvals, testing, gold seals, works with QA's for timely inspection & delivery, update the buyer & the production status.

Key Accounts :
Dunnes Store, Drothy-Perkins, Pea-Cock, Tema, Primark, Okaidi, Obaibi, Quick-Silver, Jules, Camaieu, Bizbee, Afibel, Barbe-Blue, Bluhm-Koln, Bluhmod, Vertbaduet, Burton, Penny-Rewe, Defi Mode, Captain Tourte.

Handling on very tightly scheduled assignments, managed the risk and got the important sample assignments completed well before time. Flair for analysis based troubleshooting and quick decision-making. Cultivated the spirit and method in team to collect facts.
Very good knowledge of wovens/knits sourcing and product development

Key Accounts :
Target Corporation, Mervyns, AMC Store, Marshall Field, Boscoves, Baby Togs, Lolly Togs, Stage Store, May Department Store International (MDSI), Family Dollar, SEARS, K-mart, Zeller, Wal-mart (USA).

OVERSEAS TOUR:
Worked for 01 year in FAMOUS TEXTILE SDN BHD at BRUNEI DARUSSALAM in terms of transfer as Merchandiser Supervisor in the year of 2001.