abhishake ray

Forecasting & designing season’s collections, including catalog, swatch collection, presentations, graphics, packing & packaging, display stands etc. Product development/ Costing/ price Negotiation.

* Merchandising * Liaising with buying agencies and buyers for approvals, updates and developing business. * Offering & developing new product line, addressing enquirers & product development. * Costing, price negotiation and sourcing. * Production planning and follow-ups. * Business Development. * Introducing organization to the buyer with company profiles, Visual and actual product presentations. * Understating and adopting as per the requirement of the brand and Agencies. * Making arrangement to satisfy the business requirements of the buyers. * Creating opportunities and converting them into orders.

* RPG venture into leisure entertain sector with offering like Toys, Music, Gifts & Books. * Job profile. Responsible for all the merchandising activity for the entire category of lifestyle products in Mera World, Books & Beyond and Music World. * Responsible for handling the entire category of lifestyle and fashion accessories, at PAN India level. * Responsible for planning, developing and implementing sales and promotions for entire category. * Responsible for achieving sales and revenue target. * Responsible for developing potential new product category. * Responsible product training for staff and all concern departments. * Responsible for liaising with vendor, inventory management, maintaining STR for better sale. * Highlight. Involve in nurturing the Living and Giving, section in Mera World right from the concept to actual execution of the concept in opening first store of Mera World in Bangalore.

* Job profile: Sole responsibility of all the non-apparel accounts, like Fashion Accessories, Home Textile, Gift Items, Cook Wares, Towels, Rugs & Mats Etc. Merchandising: * Introducing suppliers to the buyer and continuously promoting their collection. * Addressing buyer’s enquiry and developing product range as per guidelines provided by the buyer. * Continuously increasing vendor base as per business demands. * Booking orders for the suppliers. * Involve in price negotiations & finalizing all the criteria for the order, including mode and terms of payment, logistics, packing, branding etc. * Involve in providing timely approvals to ensure timely delivery with right kind of quality. * Production follow-ups and addressing all the production and quality issue is an important part of daily schedule. Additional responsibility. Selected as SUPER USER, responsible for all the transaction through U-Trade and also training all other fellow department to perform their part on U-Trade.

* Sampling Coordinator * Coordinating within the department and buyer for season’s collection, Product specifications and developments. * Sourcing and Costing of the merchandise, Maintaining in-house specification sheets Q.A. Executive * Maintaining quality standards for the different departments i.e. Material/ Production/ Finishing & Packing. * Production follow-ups, internal Quality audit, Inline and Final inspection.

* Generating business and establishing new business opportunities on the bases of sales forecast and the target given by the management. * Developing season’s collection with the buyer and realization into orders. * Establishing standard operating process of each client for the factory. * Establishing quality and technical parameters for each style for production. * Issuing job order sheet for the received order with instructions for all the departments. * Approval of bulk material for production. * Finial inspection of shipment before dispatch. * Stock correction and data analysis.