Engr. Mohammad M Uddin PGD ™

As Head of Marketing & Communication at Fashion Business Journal, I lead the organization’s marketing, business development, sales, and strategic communication initiatives, strengthening its position as a trusted platform for the global fashion, apparel, textile, and sourcing industry. My responsibilities include developing and executing marketing strategies, driving advertising and sponsorship sales, building strategic partnerships, and expanding the publication’s reach among manufacturers, brands, retailers, buying offices, and industry stakeholders. Key focus areas: • Driving advertising, sponsorship, and commercial revenue growth. • Building and maintaining relationships with fashion brands, garment manufacturers, textile mills, buying houses, and industry leaders. • Developing strategic communication plans to enhance brand visibility and audience engagement. • Creating partnership opportunities through industry events, webinars, special reports, and digital campaigns. • Leading corporate communications, public relations, and stakeholder engagement initiatives. • Collaborating with editorial and business teams to develop commercially impactful content and industry insights. • Representing the publication at industry conferences, trade fairs, networking events, and business forums. • Expanding the journal’s influence across the global fashion and textile value chain through effective marketing and relationship management. Passionate about connecting businesses, creating value-driven partnerships, and supporting the growth of the fashion and textile industry through impactful communication and commercial excellence.

• Choose supplier allocation based on procurement strategy (CPM). • Confirm social compliance and environmental safety as a priority. • Achieving the product development before Order Confirmation according to the collection requirements. • Negotiate final prices based on targets received from Business Unit. • Forecasting & monitoring the factory capacity booking. • Ensure the buying trips execution with collection (trip organization, showrooms preparations, price negotiation during trip, supplier selection). • Settle the claims with factory & monitoring supplier performance. • Regularly visit vendors to keep abreast of their competences and activities. • Update local and regional sourcing and market intelligence to innovate new products, fabrics, ornaments and facilities. • Guarantee the distribution and implementation of new norms and procedures to vendors and ensure the training. • Offering guide line, advice, and support to their less experienced peers to help them develop and be more efficient. • Leading the merchandising team and make sure their development

1. Sourcing factories to develop & place the order as per customers' requirements. 2. Ensure quality customer service to the buyer and maintain strong relationship with suppliers. 3. Assess the supplier quality standards & category priorities. 4. Follow up order and on time shipment. 5. Guide the supplier to development right product based on the technical specification requirement. 6. Monitoring production process at different stages of the T&A or CP 7. Collect the latest fashion trends from vendors & offering newest product to the business unit. 8. Confirm of the products testing parameters to meet the QA and safety requirement. 9. Ensure timely submission of sample, quotation to business unit & manage price negotiation based on open costing format challenging key aspects such as material cost, consumption, CM & trims cost.

1. Carry on marketing to develop new buyer specially BRIC & USA. 2. Create pre-costing & costing, ready offer price and contract negotiation for order confirmation 3. Follow-up production process, arrange inventory. 4. Solve the day-to-day problems and work to improve the working process. 5. Monitor & supervise Merchandising and QA Department. 6. Develop various kind of fabrication and accessories to meet buying team demand. 7. Arrange buying meeting and work with buyers. 8. Source new suppliers. 9. Source the right product from right supplier within right price and quality. 10. Critical Path Management by DSS system 11. Manage the capacity allocation, quantity forecast sharing & other administrative tasks 12. Ready to ad. hoc project as assigned by Management 13. Tagged with Quality, Supply Chain teams to resolve any quality and shipment issues. 14. Guarantee timely submission of marketing/advertising samples to Customer Procurement Manager or business unit. 15. Makes various reporting & data management task as per company procedure.

1. Product, fabrics and trims development. 2. Production process follow up (Knit, Dyeing, finishing) 3. Costing and ready offer price. 4. Fabrics and accessories sourcing, and booking. 5. Collaborate with buyers and local suppliers. 6. Marketing in local buying house, direct buyer, and liaison office. 7. Ensure all the test parameters for different buyers. 8. Cooperate with merchandiser Manager. 9. Attend different local fair to display our products.

Production management, Project planning, Analytical skills, Communication, Supply Chain Management, Sourcing, Merchandising and so on