Hongying Hao: Head in Vancouver, BC

• Built up, trained and maintained units: sourcing & developing, production, product quality & compliance in Shanghai, Taiwan & Hong Kong for Greater China Market including Ecommerce covering all products from apparel to accessories, softline to hardgoods • Studied company strategy and created designated goals to each units, direct reports and global vendors; proposed and implemented seasonal sourcing strategy and buying plan; reviewed and analyzed daily sales report to balance inventory level and order shipment plan; partnership with design team and global vendors for pre-booking and trigger calendar to ensure on-time inStore rate • Worked with global designers for innovative products; proposed and led “in China for China” projects to improve sales margin, on-time inStore rate and generated China exclusive assortments seasonally to improve sales by 20% • Sourced, developed and on-boarded new vendors following each brand’s criteria and market trend • Maintained strong relationships with industry partners for competitive unit prices and on time delivery; collaborated with vendors and design team to improve productivity and cost • Created product and vendor performance list; recorded, reviewed and analyzed vendors’ performances for corrective action plan or further solution; reviewed QC report against approved samples, tech pack and lab testing reports to release, reject, repair & reroute a shipment • Performed product strategy & in-market inspection process to manage and mitigate product quality challenges; rapport with global and domestic labs and key dying stuff enterprises including BASF for quality solutions • Assisted vendors to build up in-house laboratories to manage quality at very early stage; set up mandatory testing items to improve product quality consistency and cost effectiveness, reduced 53% global testing expense(2011 vs2016) • Collaborated with global product integrity team to reconcile and harmonize vendor manual to ensure the consistency of product quality, compliance and integrity • Proposed and accomplished integrated global labels to improve vendors’ productivity, unit cost and implement global inventory re-allocation strategy, reduced 90% label issues (2011 vs 2016) • Teamed up with global IT team to make sure a user-friendly system, improve systems’(ACT, PLM and etc) effectiveness& efficiency