Vishal Bhatnagar

• Heading the Sourcing, Pre-Production and Production in the New York City office and responsible for seven brands (all categories in knits &woven) including Ted Baker Boys &Girls, Sally Miller for Tween Girls (knits & woven) and Liz Claiborne, ANA, Worthington, Decree, Lamoure, Bisou Bisou, I Heart Ronson, Nicole Miller (woven) and denim for Women. • Facilitate the corporate initiative for global work shift in support of international expansion. • Facilitate the team to maintain and manage the pre-production time and action and production work-in-process. • Manage brand initiatives and goals. • Create and manage monthly forecast for factories and annual mill strategy. • Control final allocations. • Develop and maintain relationships with vendors to ensure successful business partnerships. • Analyze industry trends to proactively identify supply base issues to reduce cost, minimize risk, protect continuity of supply, and exploit emerging opportunities that benefit the brand. • Book fabrics and manage deliveries and liabilities. • Initiate and book early fabric commitments. • Collaborate with stakeholders to create calendar and meet deadlines measured by season. • Travel overseas to evaluate vendors, find opportunities and determine areas of improvement. • Outline and communicate brand and category strategies based on annual and seasonal brand initiatives. • Manage commitments and order placements. • Manage rolling IMUs against brand goals. • Strategize brand business opportunities including freight modes for distribution center receipt, flow and margin opportunity. • Responsible for on-time delivery of shipments/samples and timely meetings with cross-functional teams. • Supervise work of subordinates to ensure accomplishment of department goals and deadlines.

• Was responsible for 18% of the Company’s business in product categories for Woven- Bottoms (both Basic and Fashion), Denims, Outerwear and Woven Tops. Negotiate and place the seasonal line for Knits- Tops and Polo’s for boys with factories within the sourcing matrix at best possible cost and acceptable risk profile. • Was responsible for placing orders of over 380,000-400,000 dozen each season for past collections. • Was responsible for negotiating the best prices for 100% of all the piece goods with fabric mills in China, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and ensuring those business goals meet or exceed divisional financials. • Strategized order placement for each seasonal line, eg:buildcost targets, proactively work with agents and overseas offices to analyze costing details and sourcing alternatives opportunities for our products. • Continuously looked out for new opportunities and monitored compliance, selection and addition of new vendor partners. Guided and assisted Production Managers and Production Coordinators to follow through daily submittals and production issues. • Managed in-depth garment construction,fit and quality level. • Partnered with design, merchant and art teams to define the seasonal line for critical product construction and techniques details and costs.Quality control and improvement of products supervise and handle a team of assistant sourcing and production people. • Technical mentor for staff and cross-functional team members. • Travelled internationally every three months for buying trips. Responsibilities included supporting the local offices with all the key focus areas and operational changes needed in execution of the company policies. • Sourcing, pricing and monitoring the WIP and the ability to control the production in the largest supply markets of Bangladesh, China, India and Vietnam efficiently and consistently has been acclaimed as one of my key achievements within the organization.

Heading the Sourcing , Merchandising, Quality Assurance and Vendor Compliance departments and successfully developed (Infant, Newborn, Boys, Girls, Men & Women) business from Kenya, Jordan,Madagascar and the Gulf region for several USA customers .Total volume 25 million (Knits and Woven). Administrative responsibilities were also executed. Designed and Implemented W.I.P for production Followup. handled factories and vendor profilining and selection were core roles during the period. Sourcing out of nearby countries like Jordan and Madagascar and Kenya, and Gulf region for various brands like OshKosh, Kids R us, Haggar, Sara Lee, and others.

Handled US $6.9 million businesswith responsibility for the development, growth and sustenance of business across Multi Product categories for the Old Navy team in woven and knits. DirectedthesourcingneedsofthebuyingteamsinSanFranciscoandliaisonwithfactoriesandfabricmills.

Merchandiser handling Women and Children Apparel sourcing for the German Market.

Studied and learnt production techniques for Apparel Production. Learnt Merchandising skills and communication techniques Acquired a better understanding of Global trade. Learnt Trading terms and finance Overall International Business management

Bachelor's in Commerce Captain for Atheltics team, Captain of Soccer team, Position holder in Student Governing Body

Commercial studies School Sports Captain Avid debater and dramatics volunteer