abu yusuf

* Establishing the category of Lifestyle at Snapdeal.com * Sourcing products for all sub categories – Watches/Bags/Sunglasses/Accessories. * Planning & Designing new product offers for the category. * Mapping the technology and category trends in the market. * Devising marketing plans for the category.

* Responsible for ensuring that the product is developed as per the requirements of the buyer. * Responsible for sourcing, sampling and communication with the buyer. * Responsible for ensuring that the production goes as per the schedule and as per the requirements. * Worked for the world’s most renowned brands like Guess, Ted Baker, Asos, Oasis, House of Fraser, UrbanCode, New Look, Mint Velvet etc. *  Organise design meets and product presentation meets with various buyers to capture more business. *  Analysing and understanding the buyer’s sense of design, product specs and cost targets, and accordingly get the product developed, satisfying the above points. *  Sourcing the most appropriate material for a product keeping in view the material quality standards and at the same time achieving the cost parameters. *  Costing the product in terms of material consumption, labour costs, company overheads and profit margins.

*  Leading the R & D and Quality Control department for both apparels and bags. *  Material sourcing-based upon the quality requirements and cost targets, from domestic and international suppliers. *  Building up the SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for Production and benchmarking the quality for the production output. *  Handling operations of service department and conduct regular analysis to minimize customer service related issues through ERP based software. * gt; Responsible for coordination with the supplier for sourcing, production and packaging of the garment. * gt; Responsible for quality control of fabric and other elements used in the product. * gt; Conduct various tests and measures.

* Watches,Bags,Eye-Wear, Fashion Accessories & Jewellery * Managing relationship with all major footwear brands * Managing the technical advancement and new features development for Fashion. * Responsible for designing and executing various campaigns and promotions like EOSS for complete Fashion category * Managing unstructured business for accessories. * With the growth of 400% in no. of orders accessories is the top contributor in PayTM marketplace. * Responsible for C2I (China to India) project for sourcing.

National Institute of Fashion Technology, Chennai