Retail merchandiser

Marketing & Sales

A highly motivated, organized, and adaptable marketing professional with 10years' experience of handling international business based apparel brands seeking an exciting position as office executive manager so that can dramatically help grow your business through increasing your employees' overall happiness.

(Industry Apparel retail)
Business
• Currently Building & maintaining a loyal client base through strong relationship-building skills generating monthly business around $ 150 thousand from EPIC MENS store chain.

Job description
• Maintaining and increasing sales of your company's products.
• Reaching the targets and goals set for your area.
• Establishing, maintaining and expanding your customer base.
•  Servicing the needs of your existing customers.
•  Increasing business opportunities through various routes to market.
• Setting sales targets for individual reps and your team as a whole.
•  Developing sales strategies and setting targets.
• Monitoring your team's performance and motivating them to reach targets.
• Compiling and analyzing sales figures.
• Collecting customer feedback and market research.
•  Reporting to senior managers.
• Keeping up to date with products and competitors.
• Emphasizing product features based on customers' needs.
• Responsible for negotiating contracts from year to year (i.e. product cost negotiation and stock agreements)

(Industry Denim Manufacturer)
Business
• Managed NEXT/NEW LOOK under the flag of BLUE METHOD (UK based buying office) with confirmed quantity of around 0.15 million to 0.2 million annually (four seasonal) and targets to exceed annual turnover of around 2 million dollars to 4 million dollars by year end with an average price of $10/piece.

Job description

* Analyzing and investigating price, demand and competition * devising and presenting ideas and strategies
* compiling & distributing financial and statistical information
* Sharing annual business  reports
* organizing meeting with customer to establish new business & brands
* monitoring performance on monthly basis * managing campaigns as a face to vendor
* Evaluating seasonal development tech packs, confirming related information/detail of the same with buyer.
* Price negotiations with buyers.
* Looking after lab dips, fabric, product development and sampling.
* Follow ups on approvals and productions.
* Ensure the target productions and shipments on time.
* Maintaining development sheet, fit approval record, approved swatches record, TOP samples and Lab test reports.
* Daily meeting with the Manager on production updates and expected delays.
* Visiting concerning department for follow up of time lines for pre-production to close well on time so that bulk production starts as per TNA.
* Monitoring Final audits passed on daily basis and update concerned depts. accordingly.
* Maintaining a master report which covers all aspects of production and pre-production.
* Follow up with internal departments for ensuring on time delivery of production.
* Communicating with buyers for daily update of issues and having advice on current and upcoming product development and product related issues.
* Keep up date knowledge & follow up on related shipment date, vessel schedule, lead time, L/C & payment
Work Experience

Marketing Executive

(Industry Apparel sourcing)

Business
• Managed BLEND/FQ/ICHI direct to Denmark based customer with confirmed quantity of around 0.1 million to 0.2 million annually.

Job description
• Evaluating seasonal development tech packs, confirming related information/detail of the same with buyer. Pass on the new package to vendors for price costing and development purpose.
• Price negotiations with factories and buyers.
• Looking after lab dips, fabric, product development and sampling.
• Follow ups on approvals and productions.
• Ensure the target productions and shipments on time.
• Maintaining development sheet, fit approval record, approved swatches record, TOP samples and Lab test reports.
• Daily meeting with the Manager on production updates and expected delays.
• Visiting factories for follow up of time lines for pre-production to close well on time so that bulk production starts as per TNA.
• Monitoring Final audits passed on daily basis and update concerned depts. accordingly.
• Maintaining a master report which covers all aspects of production and pre-production.
• Follow up with vendors for ensuring on time delivery of production.
• Communicating with buyers for daily update of issues and having advice on current and upcoming product development and product related issues.
• Keep up date knowledge & follow up on related shipment date, vessel schedule, lead time, L/C & payment
• Co-coordinating with vendors to ensure on time delivery of production.
• Tracking shipments and orders to ensure that delivery deadlines are meet.

Merchandiser

(Industry Denim manufacturer)

Business
• Managed SOVIET/MORISON/MATALAN/CRAFTED/SONAE under the flag of NJK (UK based buying office) with confirmed quantity of around 0.4 million to 0.7 million annually.

Job description
* Analyzing and investigating price, demand and competition * devising and presenting ideas and strategies
* compiling & distributing financial and statistical information
* Sharing annual business  reports
* organizing meeting with customer to establish new business & brands
* monitoring performance on monthly basis * managing campaigns as a face to vendor
* Evaluating seasonal development tech packs, confirming related information/detail of the same with buyer.
* Price negotiations with buyers.
* Looking after lab dips, fabric, product development and sampling.
* Follow ups on approvals and productions.
* Ensure the target productions and shipments on time.
* Maintaining development sheet, fit approval record, approved swatches record, TOP samples and Lab test reports.
* Daily meeting with the Manager on production updates and expected delays.
* Visiting concerning department for follow up of time lines for pre-production to close well on time so that bulk production starts as per TNA.
* Monitoring Final audits passed on daily basis and update concerned depts. accordingly.
* Maintaining a master report which covers all aspects of production and pre-production.
* Follow up with internal departments for ensuring on time delivery of production.
* Communicating with buyers for daily update of issues and having advice on current and upcoming product development and product related issues.
* Keep up date knowledge & follow up on related shipment date, vessel schedule, lead time, L/C & payment

Senior Merchant

(Industry Knits manufacturer)

Business
• Managed AMERICAN RAG/AMERICAN VARSITY/CLUB ROOM under the flag of MACY's (Singapore based buying office) with confirmed quantity of around 0.3 million to 0.4 million annually.

Job description

• Communication with buyer
* Costing of the products
* Planning and execution of the products
* File management of the orders
* Handling production issues and approvals
* Procurement of the accessories
* Audit of the shipment with buyer nominated QC * monitoring performance on monthly basis
* Evaluating seasonal development tech packs, confirming related information/detail of the same with buyer.
* Price negotiations with buyers.
* Looking after lab dips, fabric, product development and sampling.
* Follow ups on approvals and productions.
* Ensure the target productions and shipments on time.
* Maintaining development sheet, fit approval record, approved swatches record, TOP samples and Lab test reports.
* Daily meeting with the Manager on production updates and expected delays.
* Visiting concerning department for follow up of time lines for pre-production to close well on time so that bulk production starts as per TNA.
* Maintaining a master report which covers all aspects of production and pre-production.
* Communicating with buyers for daily update of issues and having advice on current and upcoming product development and product related issues.
* Keep up date knowledge & follow up on related shipment date, vessel schedule, lead time, L/C & payment.
Internships and projects
* 4 weeks internship in CRESENT BAHUMAN LIMITED. (Marketing and weaving)
* 4 weeks internship in SHAHRAJ TEXTILE MILL, LAHORE in wet processing.(production)
* Marketing project on UNILEVER PRIVATE LIMITED, PAKISTAN.
* Marketing report on VOREN (pain killer tablets).

Assistant Merchant

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Ghulam Mustafa

Textile institute of Pakistan