Anandh Narayanasamy
Bangalore
Summary
To pursue a dynamic career path, this offers sample potential for learning & development of skill of interest, with diversity & innovativeness.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Head – Corporate Relations
Alliance School of Design, Alliance School of Sciences, Alliance School of Liberal Arts, Alliance University
11.2022 - Current
- Corporate collaborations for incubation/ research projects / training centers / labs etc.
- Facilitating internships & placements (Planning & preparing for a Placement week etc.)
- Planning & execution of Guest lectures/ corporate sessions/ workshops /conclaves & Mentorship programs as per management advise & requirements.
- Career Counselling & Student Preparation. (Resume reviews / LinkedIn profile building / Communication skills)
- Team Review Meetings- Constantly working with the team members to understand the placements /internships numbers and scaling them based on situations.
- One on One session with team members to understand the issues and solving them for better efficiency in improving the numbers.
- Industry Trends & Research
- Understanding the management requirements and motivating the team members accordingly.
- Organizing & planning Mock GDPI sessions for the students.
- Creating company databases for different disciplines (Science /Management / Law / Arts & Design requirements)
- Activities on International Affairs, Inviting Universities for partnerships, student exchange programs, faculty exchange programs & Combined Curriculum Developments.
- Industry Partnerships (Incubations / Labs / Live Projects & collaborations)
Director- Merchandising & Clientele Relationship
Petexindia
06.2014 - 06.2022
- Presentation, Product developments & Sampling
- Franchise planning
- Maintain Clientele relationship by constantly visiting them, arranging for a review meeting, discussing their views and implementing them as per their guidance.
- Working to bring new clients by writing to them and doing presentations based on their needs and demands.
- Costing, sample development, quality maintenance, deciding production centers based on the performance & order confirmation
- Order allocations to vendors based on their strengths and weaknesses and maintain the vendor relationship to achieve the production outflow.
- Order follows up & Quality control & assigning responsibilities
- Order intake, delivery schedule
- Essential thinking
- Bridging the gap between strategy and implementation
- While keeping marketing priorities in mind and remaining aligned to the business objectives
- Competitive review-discussing both direct and indirect competitors, which includes main competitors along with their market position, sales, pricing, distribution, marketing strategy and marketing program for Domestic market.
Sr. Manager Merchandising
Singlun Global Pvt Ltd., Public listed company
01.2009 - 03.2014
- Team Size – 15
- Target USD 70 Million
- Region- Sri Lanka, China, India &Singapore (Production units)
- Presentation, execution and teams follow up
- Meeting buyers for season orders, costing and allocations
- Vendor Allocations (Inspections / Auditing on Compliance)
- Compliance & quality issues
- Looking after Labour laws, performance of the production units
- Team management
- Quality Control
- Time & Action Flow
- Sales Forecast& Target
- Basically, involved in monitoring of follow up within costing, order placements and development team to ensure the smooth workflow was drawn. The other major responsibility was to maintain the vendor relationship to ensure the timely delivery and quality products. It was fun working in MNC groups at the same time it did give us enormous experience in handling logistics and thriving to achieve the target.
Contract Staff
Gap Incorporation
05.2007 - 12.2007
- Team Old Navy, Men’s, Ladies, kids and Outlet
- Team size – 30
- Target: USD 30 Million
- Region: Sri-Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia & Singapore
- Responsibilities:
- Presentation
- Vendor relationship
- Costing Review
- Order Placements
- Vendor Allocations
- Quality Control
- Time & Action Flow
- Sales Forecast
- Basically, involved in monitoring of follow up within costing, order placements and development team to ensure the smooth workflow was drawn. The other major responsibility was to maintain the vendor relationship to ensure the timely delivery and quality products. It was fun working in MNC groups at the same time it did give us enormous experience in handling logistics and thriving to achieve the target.
Head- Sampling & Product Development, Merchandising
Ponie International; Pte, Ltd.
01.2004 - 04.2007
- Division- Knits & Woven-
- Clientele: Macy’s, Kohls, Gap, Gap Inc., & Polo Ralph Lauren
- Products- tees, polo’s, leggings, skirts, skirts, dresses, jumpers, cargo shorts, pants and heavy washed cardigans, Cargo Shorts, Cargo Pants etc...
- Age Group- Infants, Toddlers, Girls & Boys to Adults.
- It’s a partnership firm and run by Singaporean Chinese Directors with the annual turn over of US$200 million. The mother company is SL Global Pte ltd, Singapore. We cater garments to U.S.A, Europe and Japan, and working with top brands such as Under Armour, GAP, Banana republic, Ann Taylor, Eddie Bauer, INC International concepts, American Rag, Jimmy Z, Kohl’s, Polo Ralph Lauren, Chaps, Puma and etc.......
- Was handling Baby GAP (UK) recently and earlier were working with Baby Gap (boys & girls) Old Navy kids (Boys & Girls), American Rag, Inc International concepts and Anchor blue with the project work of $6.5m (recent target) the products including both Woven and knits. The main responsibility starts from development to order completion. Primary responsibilities include execution and follow up from concept (tech pack receipt to costing, sampling), procuring orders to garment delivery, preparing and presenting the budgets for the said accounts, ensure the budgets are met, and building and enhancing customer relationships, managing and grooming the subordinates and procuring orders. Conducting order tracking meeting to ensure the time and action calendars are met with no issues and to perform the score card. Planning a meeting with fabric suppliers to clear the outstanding issues to ensure the fabric can be getting out on time to begin the production. Also arranging a meeting with the Embroidery and Printing suppliers to discuss the critical issues prior to bulk process begins.
- The manufacturing plants are in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Sri-lanka and India (sub con). Each Plant has capacity of producing 40,000doz per month, but whereas Sri-lanka and Vietnam has a facility of Producing both knits and Woven.
Manager Merchandising& Marketing
Estro clothing (pvt) ltd.
05.2001 - 11.2003
- Mainly responsible for fulfilling the factory capacity, meeting up with buyers for new enquiries and order follow up.Planning a Sales Budget for each season, open costing, making of time and action calendar and procuring raw materials for each orders. The main clients were H.I.S, Mango, Carre four and La Morrigan. The other major responsible was setting up a seasonal presentation according to the fashion trends to achieve the sales budget with the help of designers from Hong Kong. The product handled was Men’s Denim Bottoms.
Senior Merchandiser
Color Lines Incorporated ltd.
04.2000 - 04.2001
- Primarily responsible for the developments of the European Sector from the sampling to order confirmation stage for kid’s toddlers to big girls and Boys starting from developments to shipment. Was in-charge of costing, developments, and procuring raw materials, controlling samples (Fit, Preproduction and top of production), production follow up, and updating the shipment status for labels Mexx (mini Mexx, Kids and teens) and Matalaan. Products handled are Woven skirts, pants, skirts, tops, dresses, Denim Jackets and etc....
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration -
Post Graduated - Apparel Production Engineering, Fashion Designing & Merchandising
01.2000
Skills
- Mentorship
- Training Young staffs in retail front
- Not afraid of learning and not shy to ask around
- Leading the team is the main Interest and makes them more successful under critical circumstances
- Monitoring the team activities on all aspects related to work
- Cost control
- Highly Self Motivated
- Friendly, positive attitude
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Customer service
- Problem-solving
- Time management
- Attention to detail
- Flexible and adaptable
- Dependable and responsible
- Multitasking
- Multitasking Abilities
- Excellent communication
- Critical thinking
- Organizational skills
- Calm under pressure
- Active listening
- Organization and time management
- Decision-making
- Problem resolution
- Verbal communication
Professional Achievements
- Adjudged second best Designer at Inter college Fashion Designing competition at ALT Training College, Bangalore during 1998-2000.
- Represented the Cricket Team, Volleyball, Badminton and Carom as a Captain in Inter College Competition, at Food craft Institute, Trichy
- Participated in trade fair exhibition at Düsseldorf, Germany in Feb’2003
- “Leadership in management”- seminar conducted in Singapore by Pamela, Product Director of Ann Taylor
Timeline
Head – Corporate Relations - Alliance School of Design, Alliance School of Sciences, Alliance School of Liberal Arts, Alliance University
11.2022 - Current
Director- Merchandising & Clientele Relationship - Petexindia
06.2014 - 06.2022
Sr. Manager Merchandising - Singlun Global Pvt Ltd., Public listed company
01.2009 - 03.2014
Contract Staff - Gap Incorporation
05.2007 - 12.2007
Head- Sampling & Product Development, Merchandising - Ponie International; Pte, Ltd.
01.2004 - 04.2007
Manager Merchandising& Marketing - Estro clothing (pvt) ltd.
05.2001 - 11.2003
Senior Merchandiser - Color Lines Incorporated ltd.
04.2000 - 04.2001
ALT Training College - Post Graduated, Apparel Production Engineering, Fashion Designing & Merchandising
University of Madras - Bachelor of Business Administration,