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Manager Merchandising (adidas group)
Hired as a management trainee and over the period of ten years worked with brands like adidas group, NIKE, JC Penney, Umbro etc & performed the following functions:

o To communicate with the customers, top management, internal departments and vendors to coordinate overall marketing effort in accordance with corporate goals.
o To closely work with the buyers, suppliers, and team members to explore new business opportunities
o Costing and price negotiations with the customers.
o Responsible for complete merchandising activities, order execution and follow up with the buyers & the suppliers.
o To build and maintain effective rapport & working relationship with the customers.
o Used to play an integral role in product development activities.
o Twice attended systems training at adidas India office Bangalore.
o Attended systems training at adidas Bangkok office.
o Attended systems training at adidas Colombo Office
o Attended systems training at adidas Jakarta Office.
o Used to do costing on adidas FLEX PLM system.

Business Manager
o Developed a complete brand of personal care products from scratch.
o It includes, product research, product selection, product development, negotiation with suppliers and finally importing the product.
o Keeping track of the shipments and then their payment issues considering the company’s cash flow position.
o Supervising that stock is ordered by the sales staff on time and then delivered timely by Warehouse staff.
o Responsible for hiring & handling the sales staff and sales targets as well.
o Consistently monitoring the stock situation for reordering to suppliers based on the lead times of different suppliers.
o Suggesting different promotional activities for increasing sales.
o Regularly visiting the locations for checking and motivating the staff and also solving their day to day problems.
o Working with social media manager for increasing brand awareness.
o Currently looking after 3 locations and staff of 12 people and also a sales manager.

Planning/Procurement & Product Development Manager
Hired to look after the complete marketing, Planning, Procurement of all the brands of the company. Overseeing the purchasing of cosmetics, sunglasses, gadgets, swimwear & perfumes. Following are the core job responsibilities:

o To contact with supplier’s for all the inventory planning.
o Follow up of all the supplier’s payments, returns, damages etc.
o Inventory planning of eight brands of different categories including gadgets, sunglasses, cosmetics/perfumes & swimwear etc.
o To coordinate/supervise Brand Managers for the products displays and marketing activities.
o Launched a Perfume brand from scratch.
o To Introduce new products after every 2 months
o Performing marketing activities of different brands.
o Inventory planning based on sales analysis
o Initiating the costing of every new product.
o Cash flow planning of each subsequent month.
o Handling online side of the business for all the brands.