Durgesh Nandini

• Analyse sales trends and maintain knowledge of accessory market. • Coordinate with inventory management team and negotiate for new programs. • Collaborate with suppliers and agents and assist to resolve issues. • Analyse floor layout and recommend changes if required. Also, set DC. • Understand and prepare assortment plan for seasons. • Ensure compliance to objectives within complete work within required timeframe. • Develop strategies to maximize sales. • Coordinate with merchandise manager and identified products that need to be advertised. • Implement accessories plan as per marketing strategy. • Provide training to store manager and sales staff during store visits. • Analyse product life cycle and forecast inventory requirements. • Manage communication between vendors and logistics team. • Understand OTB and initiate buying. • Plan RTV and discounts for slow sellers • On- boarding potential brands • Keep regular track of fast and slow mover and take required actions. • Stock planning during season launch/ EOSS. • Sales track on a very regular interval to understand the growth/degrowth for overall accessories dep.

• Identify, quantify and action on the available market opportunity • Understand the trends prevailing in the International market and customize the same to suit the needs of the domestic market. • Product Planning and Performance • Align buy with the plan and drive the sales, margin and inventory for the brand as per the budget. • Initiate buying as per OTB, ensure timely delivery and availability of right and safety stocks at the store. • Ensure on time orders, consistent tracking to ensure deliveries are on time. • Assortment planning and allocation • Execute replenishments for stores based on stock performance and availability • Track and monitor dispatches as per initial allocation • Track sales performance and prepare sell through report. • Review gap analysis post launch and make appropriate corrections. • Regularly collect and analyse product feedback during store visits and sell through reports. • Monitor the ageing of stock with reference to overall stock holding • Monitor the ageing of the product and shuffling the stocks based on the DSR to the other stores. • Putting the refill order and keep following up till the time it has not reached to the store. • End of Season Consolidation. • Keep monitoring the daily sales report and take a required action. • Understand and analysis fast movers and slow movers • Undertake market and store visits for customer response, competition mapping and product gap analysis to provide feedback.

• Merchandise Management, store allocation, PO Follow ups, replenishment and inter store transfer • Assortment Planning & grading stores on category level based on sales trend • Demand percent: core stock requirements & regularly analyzing performance • Planning promotions to liquidate aged & lower sell thru stocks • Stock to sale ratio analyzing to limit buys • Analysing the DSR report, Clearance through report, GRN and In Transit report to maximise sales and sell through. • Monitoring the store as per size and style wise performance and do the display and the replenishment of the stock within the category. • Understanding and sharing the brand wise and category wise sell through reports weekly with all the Store Managers and the Dept. Managers. • Visiting Bangalore stores and outstation stores on regular basis for understanding customer buy pattern.

.Handling entire South Zone consisting of 30 EBOs (Exclusive Brand Outlets). . Deals with Retail Buying and Merchandising for Kids wear Boys & Girls categories. . Inventory management & Merchandising management – Analysing Sell Through reports on regular basis to optimize inventory investment. . Monitor store, category, size and style wise performance and clearance. . Maintaining base stock gender & category wise of stores. . Watch over distribution of merchandise to outlets and maintain sufficient stock level. . IBT of merchandise based on the movement of particular styles & categories for best clearance. . Stock v/s Sales analysis. . Regular store visit. .Distribution planning – Track and monitor dispatches as per initial allocation; ensure timely. replenishment and order execution. . Formulating, tracking and analyzing yearly/monthly targets/achievement for individual stores, promotions & product launches.