Darshana Poladia
Mumbai
Summary
Sourcing Manager with a proven track record at Bestseller India Pvt. Ltd., excelling in vendor management and cost negotiation. Adept at building strong partnerships and leading teams, I leverage advanced Excel skills to optimize supply chain efficiency, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality merchandise while enhancing overall operational performance. With a strong background in strategic procure & cost reduction strategies. Strengths lie in negotiation skills, cross-functional team leadership and risk mitigation while ensuring quality standards and timelines are met. Notable contributions include driving operational efficiencies, implementing innovative sourcing strategies and enhancing supplier relationships to maximize value for businesses worked with.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Sourcing Manager
Bestseller India Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai
05.2013 - Current
- Collaborated with vendors to ensure timely delivery of merchandise, negotiate pricing, and other terms of sale.
- Identify, evaluate, and onboard reliable suppliers and factories.
- Build long-term partnerships with vendors based on product quality, price competitiveness, and capacity.
- Regularly audit vendor performance (delivery, compliance, quality).
- Liaise with the design, finance, logistics, QA, and warehouse teams for smooth operations.
- Coordinate mid-line and final inspections, and work with QA teams and vendors to resolve quality issues.
Production Head
Express Garment Industries
02.2008 - 03.2013
- Manufacturer of trousers.
- Prepared stock and sales plans, planned product ranges, liaised with analysts, buyers, suppliers, stores, and distributors for the trousers.
- Responsible in procuring & developing business with stores like Benzer, Roopam, Aristocrate Gallery, Etc.
- Ensured proper merchandise flow across all the stores.
- Have the knowledge of production planning and execution. Responsible for planning of proper production flow and managing the flow of raw materials to the factory in order to ensure timely delivery of quality goods.
- Planned budgets, optimized sales volume and designated product areas profitability, costing, control stock levels.
- Heading a team of 20 plus employee meeting collective objective.
- Looking & tracking for the dispatches for the right product merchandise at right place & right time.
- Gained excellent skills in business development, purchasing, distribution, supply strategies, customer identification and negotiating.
- Express Garment Industries since its inception in 1988 are one of the leading suppliers and manufacturer of trousers under the brand name of First Chance. Express Garments Combines approachability and flexibility with efficiency and professionalism of an international standard manufacturing company with special focus on quality.
Merchandiser
Creative Garments
05.2006 - 01.2008
- Led a team of 12 associates to handle various sampling and assigning various buyers to them.
- Interacting and coordinating with reputed fashion houses like D&G, Guess, Pantaloons, Pyramids and Central
- Coordinating & follow ups with the vendors.
- Negotiation with the vendors for the specific product.
- Complete orders from the initial pricing stage to the final shipment.
- Handling all types of knits and wovens.
- Follow up with the fabric supplier for ensuring the delivery dates & mentioned quantity of the fabric.
- Costing of different samples as per their specifications.
- Approval of pre-production & set for the bulk production.
- Coordination & follow ups with the warehouse for dispatches of weekly replenishments.
- Oversaw and spearheaded the whole production cycle of 109F.
- Maintained complete library of appropriate data, responsible for reviewing and monitoring daily, weekly, monthly productivity via one on one with each associate on the team.
- To ensure Quality Control and Quality Assurance of the product.
- Developed strong sustainable business relations with foreign clients.
- In my job with this company & the exposure to the competitive world market has given me the opportunity to effectively use the wealth of knowledge gained in production & management skills.
Assistant for ROOPAM ‘s Designer NISHA JAMVWAL
Roopam
07.2005 - 03.2006
- Entrusted with the responsibility for Coordinating with designer’s stores such as AMARA, OGAAN, ENSEMBLE, KIMAYA, AYAMIK, etc.
- Ensured a smooth flow of merchandise as per the requirement of the stores across India by scheduling timely deliveries.
- Instrumental in organizing and coordinating for various in-house Fashion Shows by Roopam.
- Executed sourcing of fabrics.
- Looked after the Sales and Marketing
- The boulevard of fashion, ROOPAM has been successfully catering for over three decades. Right from its rudimentary stage till now, it has made its niche in fashion industry. ROOPAM has been satisfying all its customers flamboyantly.
Education
Bachelor of Commerce - Commerce
Dr. C.V. Raman University, Bilaspur
12-2011
Diploma in Fashion Technology - Fashion Technology
B.D. Somani Institute of Art & Fashion Technology
Mumbai03-2005
Higher Secondry School Certificate -
Maharashtra State Board Of Secondary Educatoni
Pune03-2001
Secondry School Certificate -
St. Teresa's Convent High School
Mumbai03-1999
Skills
- Vendor Development & Management
- Costing & Price Negotiation
- Product understanding
- Team Leadership & Effective Communication
- Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, TNA tracking sheets)
- ERP Software (eg, SAP)
- Quality assurance
- Production planning
References
Available upon request
Summary
- Comprehensive 20 yrs plus experience in Merchandising and production.
- Build long-term partnerships with vendors based on product quality, price competitiveness, and capacity.
- Obtain and compare quotes from multiple vendors.
- Negotiate best possible prices while maintaining required quality standards.
- Monitor production progress against TNA.
- Ensure pre-production meetings are held and quality standards are understood.
- Vendor relations, coordination and organizational skills.
Languages
English
First Language
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
C1
Gujarati
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Timeline
Sourcing Manager
Bestseller India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2013 - Current
Production Head
Express Garment Industries
02.2008 - 03.2013
Merchandiser
Creative Garments
05.2006 - 01.2008
Assistant for ROOPAM ‘s Designer NISHA JAMVWAL
Roopam
07.2005 - 03.2006
Bachelor of Commerce - Commerce
Dr. C.V. Raman University, Bilaspur
Diploma in Fashion Technology - Fashion Technology
B.D. Somani Institute of Art & Fashion Technology
Higher Secondry School Certificate -
Maharashtra State Board Of Secondary Educatoni
Secondry School Certificate -
St. Teresa's Convent High School
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