- Represent for presentation and costing meetings. Displays & Shares our collections to obtain orders for the coming season
- To get orders from International Buyers, either from their buying houses, liaison offices, buying agents or directly by visiting buyers in their India and international offices.
- Displays maturity & winning attitude in effectively negotiating & achieving target profitability by verifying whether the style in discussion is viable in terms of manufacturing / profitability
- Books production capacity based on orders / forecast received from the buyers & ensure that the space booked is effectively used.
- Optimizes production by ensuring handiness of capacity for orders booked by interfacing with central planning.
- Reviews and follows up with the team in line with Time & action calendar to ensure that all materials/approvals are in place prior to the PCD.
- Plans in consultation with production heads & follows production status on a bi-weekly basis to ensure production is on time. Troubleshot wherever needed.
- Reviews and follows up with merchandising team, quality team and production team to ensure quality merchandise are shipped out. Troubleshot wherever needed.
- Effectively follows up the target with the concerned department & maintains cordial relationship with all the other departments in the organization
- Adds & expands business value by developing & managing clients & accounts effectively.
- Effectively follows up on the payments once the shipments are executed depending on the payment terms e.g. T/T; L/C at sight / 30 days / 60 days etc. In co ordination with the accounts/documentation dept.
- Maintain Cordial relation with all departments
To strategies creative ideas to simplify the process and make it more efficient
- To generate required MIS reports and provide the same to the concerned Departments.
Preferred Experience
- 1015 years of experience in apparel merchandising
- Strong experience handling European and UK retail accounts, preferably:
- Inditex Group
- H&M;
- C&A;
- Tesco
- Other leading European and UK retailers.
- Experience in managing the following product categories: