Sandesh Jain

40 Years old, MBA, worked in various country of GCC. 18years of proven track record, Expertise in ‘Government compliance of all over gulf, that give additional push for smooth procurement, clearance from custom, buying trading and consumable till clearance of aging, handling complete operations.

• Almaya Group (2005 to 2019)
• Apparel Group (2019 to Present)

• Registered more than 10K products across Gulf
• Reduced shrinkage and losses in Inventory by 2%
• Super aging stock liquidated 34 million
• Saved 800K+ in a year in product compliance
• Saved 30m in a year in consumable procurements
• Saved 22m in a year in trading (Local, UAE + China) buying
• Successfully handled more than 10 Exhibitions (Gulf Food, Professional Beauty, Beauty world middle east, Sneak me, Riyadh session)
• Started Multichannel concept and made 3m additional sale in last 6 months

Expertise

• Procurement & Deployment –438+ Stores & 300+ Manpower.
• Regulatory Product(s) Compliance – Food, Cosmetic, Toys and wifi devices.
• Dealing with – MOPH-Kuwait, Bahrain, Metrology Qatar, Municipality(Montaji) Dubai, SFDA-KSA.
• Inventory Management and Clearance – handling 438+ Store(s), 400million worth of Inventory.
• Cost Control, Multichannel & Last Mile of E-Com Operations – 6th Street Last mile.

Saving, Profit & Professional Achievement(s)

• Registered more than 10K products across Gulf.
• Reduced shrinkage and losses in Inventory by 2%. Super aging stock liquidate 34million.
• Saved 800K+ in a year in product compliance.
• Saved 30m in a year in consumable procurements.
• Saved 22m in a year in trading (Local, UAE + China) buying.
• Successfully handled more than 10 Exhibitions. (Gulf Food, Professional Beauty, Beauty world middle east, Sneak me, Riyadh session)
• Started Multichannel concept and made 3m additional sale in last 6 months.

Inventory Management & Clearance – Handling Team of 38 (Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam)

• Handling Inventory of 438+ locations across KSA.
• Handling more than 500m worth of Inventory and given results in downgrowth of losses.
• Aging, Super Aging monitoring and planning for liquidation.
• Damaged, Expiry, Testers, Uniform, Marketing, GWP, monitoring and controlling abnormal loses.
• Liquidation channel – Warehouse Sale, Recycle, Bulk Buyer.
• Checking landed cost / routing shipment thru cheapest channel.
• Overseas shipment / transit shipment / store to store shipment monitoring.
• MIS –shrinkage, expiry, w/off(s) and aging.
• Data analysis and forcasting.
• Unclaimed inventory / Insurance part of the inventory as well Inventory movement related Charity event

Procurement and Deployment – Handling team of 4

• Procurement & Deployment of manpower, security, temporary staff.
• Procurement of packing material, stationary, store consumable, warehouse and office consumable.
• Making sure to get best price and quality as per requirements.
• Buying of impulse and temporary tradable items from China, Dubai and India. – Trolly bag, perfume, Cosmetics.
• New account opening till payment making sure all process on uptomark.
• 200 plus new vendor registered in a year with up to 65% lower cost.
• Replaced traditional buying with smart buying.

Govt. Regulatory & Product Compliance – Handling team of 5 (Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, KSA)

• Expert in compliance of Cosmetics, since 2007, providing guideline to business on regulatory matters.
• Recommending options and implementing solutions to resolve problems and brining products in the country on a timely and cost-efficient basis.
• Well versed with Government rules and regulations, attended seminars and updated on time.
• Expertise in – Cosmetics, Food, Toys and can manage other product registration as well.
• Well aware of Ministry requirements and documentation of compliance.
• Successfully Registered more than 10K products across gulf and rejection % is hardly 1 or 2.
• Providing regulatory expertise, guidance, compliance for existing and upcoming as well as reformulated products to manufacturer, suppliers as well.
• Circulating communication related to any changes, threats or new guidelines. Categories– Food, Cosmetics, Toys, Party and Disposable items, Wi-fi Devices, Books, Low voltage home product.

• Adidas, Aeropostale, Aldo, Arden, Asics, BHPC, Brand Bazaar, Birkenstock, Brand Bazaar, Calvin Klein, CCC, Clarks, Call it spring, Charles and Keith, Crocs, Dune, Dollar plus, Grand Central, Hema, Herschel, Hush Puppies, Inglot, Levi’s, La Vie en Rose, Lakeland, LC Waikiki, Newyorker, Naturalizer, Nessa, Outlet(s) – 12, R&B, Rituals, Skechers, Steve Madden, The Athlete's Co., Tommy Hilfiger, Toms, Ximivogue, Philip Kingsley, Joico, Skin Doctor, Ericson Laboratory, Cala, Patanjali, Urban veda, Stay cool, Leighton Denny, Prolinc, Ayumi, Hence, Fruit of the loom.

• Date of Birth: 06/26/83
• Nationality: Indian
• Driving License: UAE, KSA, Qatar & Intl.
• Countries visited-China, Nepal, Qatar, UAE, KSA, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait.
• Live in gulf since 2005. 18 years of gulf experiance