Guillaume Luddens
China Buying Office Manager - Sourcing & production @ IDKIDS.COMMUNITY
About
Experienced Sourcing office manager, specialized in Textile & Hard goods, Team management, Fast Fashion retail, suppliers management and negotiation. 22 years in china, fluent in spoken Mandarin
China
Jing'an District
Textiles
Retail Management, Retail, Merchandising, Store Management, Purchasing, Textiles, Visual Merchandising, Sourcing, Apparel, Assortment, Private Label, Fashion, Trend Analysis, Global Sourcing, Retail Buying, Textile
Experience

Sourcing & Operation Director @ GIFI Ningbo office
Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
Hard goods (Home organization, Indoor furniture, Kitchenware & tableware, Seasonal decoration, Garden &outdoor, Personal accessories, …) ▪ Managing 39 people including Sourcing Managers, Sourcing specialist, Merchandisers & some administrative team (HR & admin) as a Hub leader ▪ Responsible of overall sourcing operation mainly China production ▪ Though KPI, manage the overall team to increase new products proposal, optimize supplier’s portfolio, enhance competitive gains on repeat items, improve payment term ▪ Lead the team to perform with efficiency and leverage the people involvement ▪ Work with CFO to review admin & HR process, control cost suggestions, etc ...

China sourcing Office Manager (kids apparel)-
▪ Managing 27 people including Merchandising, QC/QA & Administrative team ▪ Sourcing, production management, prices negotiation, innovation driving Achievement: Manage to reorganize quickly human resources and put back in place standard working processes. Reduce by 70% the late delivery of supplier, win back yearly around 3% purchasing price and rework with a more structure supplier’s pool (follow up, quality)

China Sourcing Office Manager (Shanghai & Guangzhou Office)
Shanghai City, China
▪ Annual purchase USD 125 million, 17 million pieces ▪ Reporting to international sourcing director (France) ▪ Managing 20 people including Merchandising, QC/QA & Administrative team for Shanghai and Guangzhou office ▪ Responsible of sourcing S/E Asia for woven & knit & Access mainly in China/ Cambodia/ Myanmar ▪ Ensure manufacturing of products with suitable suppliers and social compliance standards Achievement: Manage to minimize US/RMB currency variation, and win back 15Mi $ margin though moving production to off shore in south East Asia. Increase collection hit rate by providing more fashionable products and increase sales by a reduction of production lead-time for repeat orders

China Textile National Director
▪ Annual purchase USD 120 million. ▪ Direct management 6 persons, team of 45 people (buyers & merchandisers) ▪ Responsible of Carrefour China Textile Strategy, Sourcing, turnover & profits for Textile (Underwear, Bedding, shoes, clothes) in 205 Hypermarket, 45 cities Achievement: Manage to stabilize textile profitability in an extremely difficult sales trend, which represent around 2,5Mi $ of end of year additional renegotiation

Textile Division Manager head Office BJ&SH
▪ Annual Purchase USD 20 Million (Strategy, design, sourcing & distribution) ▪ Direct management 15 people (buyers & merchandising) ▪ Responsible of Carrefour China OEM Brand, developed for local Chinese market (Shoes, Clothes), sold in 120 stores. Achievement: Launch and develop Private label to increase customers’ spending willingness in garments
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