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Self-driven, committed and passionate professional offering 18 plus years of domestic and international experience in leading the merchandising, sourcing and general supply chain functions for manufacturing and trading businesses.

For over a decade have been leading and supporting the team (mostly cross functional) thereby ensuring the business delivers result in line to the budgets.

Office manager leading the day2day and end2end sourcing operations worth 10.5m US across all apparel product categories and sponsoring resources for the BU team to perform.

Responsible for budgeting, P&L and managing the business for 8 customers with 14 partner factories with a team of 22+ people including 5 BU, quality and technical, commercial & compliance responsible.

KRA (Responsibilities)
1.	Managing Customer, Factory and Supplier by value creation at every stage of the supply chain.
2.	Business’ Risk Management - Customer Credit check, insurance and Coverage & Factory Credit check.
3.	Seasonal range build up with help of trend inputs from Design Team in the UK and presenting the collection to visiting and off shore customers.
4.	Factory selection, Compliance, on-Boarding and exploring new fabrics and suppliers with the team.
5.	CM Negotiation, Capacity Planning & Order Booking and closing Customer Contracts with factories.
6.	Routine follow up on pre-Production Approvals, Style Risk Assessment, Material planning and scheduling, production follow-up to ensure timely handover of PO to the forwarder & thereby the payments to factory and the billing to customer and payment realization.

KPI (Achievements)
1.	Successful execution of contracts by strict Critical Path management with factories and improving OTIF (On Time In Full) from 74% to 96% in around 5 months.
2.	Along with team taken the sourcing volume from 3.1m US in 2018 to 10.5m US in 2020
3.	Staff recruitment/on-boarding and training for building team to handle multiple product customers, the developments/sourcing and contract management.
4.	Implemented below systems and data bases:
-	Factory sourcing and compliance
-	CP for order tracking and execution 

Customers: 
Primark, Arcadia, Amazon, C&A, LPP, Tokmanni from Europe and CAT from US across Trousers, Denims, Denim Jackets, Swimwear, Nightwear, Loungewear, Tees, Hoodies, Joggers and Knitwear.

SENIOR MANAGER, MERCHANDISING

Lead the general Supply Chain for Delta Galil Vietnam operations for 3 product manufacturing which included management of BU/merchandising, planning, purchases, logistics and warehouse (imports and exports) 
KRA (Responsibilities)
1.	Responsible for managing the supply chain function for Seamless Knitwear, Lingerie and Socks by connecting and aligning people and the process. 
2.	Ensuring Factory’s Loading by liaising with HQ in Israel to ensure sequential order flows and leading the planners in compiling the line plans for production. 
3.	Managing the business teams and their communication with the customers and overseas BU/s from Product Development, Costing, Raw Material Purchases for development and booking the orders for the plant.
4.	Ensuring merchandisers compile and adhere to the T&A which is in line to the demand plan/production line plan. 
5.	Monitoring and guiding proper work flow & protocol is followed when it comes to purchases and that raw material get in the factory without an exception as per the Full Kit Date given by the planners.
6.	Monitoring and guiding logistics team to select the best available options (mode, pricing, lead-times and dependability) when it comes to raw material and Capex equipment imports. 
7.	Overseeing the WIP with planners (plan vs actual and curtail deviations) and ensuring the Sales Orders are completed as per schedule and packed as per CTPAT requirement (in case of US bound shipments), this also extends working with export logistics team for deciding on the cargo/container booking and optimum utilization of the CBM

KPI (Achievements)
1.	Organized the Supply Chain Department from scratch, recruiting the best available people and arranged comprehensive object-oriented trainings and appraisals.
2.	Planned and organized the development team (a new department) with my line manager (the General Director in the business).
3.	In alignment with central purchase, negotiated the terms of payments and pricing based on collective bargaining for various manufacturing operations of Delta Galil 
4.	Streamlined reporting to the management - KPI, capacity & material utilization, material and T&A management. 
5.	Lastly lead a mix of young and experienced cross-country team to align at different levels and thereby built a team which moved together.

Customers: 
1.	Seamless: Columbia, Odlo (production) and Victoria Secret, Under Armor, M&S, PVH Warner (development)
2.	Lingerie: Armani, Tommy H, CK, Columbia, Spanx, Juicy Couture, Karen Neuburger, Nearly Nude, Hema, Hanes
3.	Socks: Wilson (production) and Nike (development)

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER

A 3-way JV between Ananta/BD, Brandot/US and Shanghai Huaxiang/CN manufacturing quality knitwear for HM, Gap, Next, Jack and Jones, Gerry Weber and more.

Responsible for business development, merchandising, factory loading-planning and out-sourcing with a team of 14 merchandisers and planners.
Built the structure, process control and work flow and systems to effectively handle the requirements of Gap. 


HEAD OF MERCHANDISING

Responsible for the successful execution of the Marks and Spencer knitwear business and lead the supply chain in general. Managed the development & costing, merchandising, planning (loading), purchases, out-sourcing and commercial functions with a team of 22 locally and in directions from the UK based Central Planning and Merchandising team.
Streamlined and lead the yarn sourcing and piece dyeing strategies for the business

Deputation in Sri Lanka to streamline merchandising and ensuring improvements in the services to the customer in Crystal's sweater operations in Sri Lanka.

MANAGER, MERCHANDISING

Relatively new to manufacturing, Global Merchants was an expansion of Buying House business.
I was hired for contractual services for setting up of the manufacturing business in regards to merchandising, customer management, commercial and other cross functions.

Customers:
Brands of Inditex (Zara, Stradivarius, Massimo Dutti), Primark and Springfield

Lead the merchandising-planning function (for 3 knitwear factories) initially and later promoted to manage the BU for Gap, HM and Marks and Spencer in succession.
1.	BU-Gap (through GIS/India) was 5.1m USD and effectively managed team of 8
2.	BU-HM, it was a restart of HM business for SQ with figures of 6.8m USD
3.	BU-M&S, this was in 2 parts:
a)	Direct business with M&S, RO – business grew 12 times in a year. Lead PD for Boys-wear T87/88/76 and T30/T38
b)	FSV business (Crystal Martin), took on core program for T38/30/58 with 2m pcs annual production. Business was development driven, lead the PD and yarn development/sourcing from scratch.
4.	Saved 160,000 USD over a span of 4-6 months by effective sourcing and Px negotiations (800T of greige yarn sourcing per year)

Customers:
Gap (including Old Navy, Banana Republic), HM, Marks and Spencer (including Autograph)


Owners of W’s brand in India and the then biggest export houses in India supplying knitwear to Gap K-Mart, Osh Kosh n the US and Esprit, Mexx in EU.
Responsible for all round coordination from merchandising, purchase, production scheduling commercial and systems.

COORDINATOR, MERCHANDISING & PRODUCTION

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