Nilam Gawale

• Assortment & Buying: Planned and executed seasonal assortments tailored to regional and trend-driven preferences, leading to 20–30% sales increases across categories.
• Vendor Management: Built strong vendor networks, negotiated better payment terms, and improved delivery timelines, boosting fulfillment rates by 15%–20%.
• Pricing & Promotions: Developed competitive pricing strategies and high-impact promotional campaigns, resulting in 30–40% sales growth during peak seasons.
• Inventory & Forecasting: Implemented accurate forecasting and replenishment strategies, reducing stockouts by 20%, and dead stock by 18%.
• Data-Driven Execution: Leveraged sales and market data to guide decision-making, optimize listings, and improve product performance and conversions.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborated with marketing, visual merchandising, logistics, and customer service teams to drive seamless execution, and improve customer experience.
• Brand & Customer Focus: Maintained strong alignment with luxury brand positioning, while ensuring high-quality standards, and adapting to market trends.

Managed sourcing and production planning for over 400 seasonal styles across Summer, Diwali, and Epilogue collections.

• Oversaw raw material inventory, ensuring transparency between warehouse and production teams.
• Developed and managed over 60 vendors, tracking shipments and ensuring timely GRN processing.
• Conducted detailed costing to achieve intake margin targets while maintaining product quality.
• Coordinated efforts among design, production, and QA teams for timely execution.
• Monitored TNA plans to align seasonal deliveries with launch timelines.
• Onboarded exclusive assortments through marketplace model, addressing assortment gaps and driving category growth using market research.

• Gained experience in sampling, trend analysis, and sales data evaluation.
• Conducted market research, and contributed to campaign ideas.
• Collaborated with design and merchandising to align products with trends.

Led a project: E-commerce assortment optimization and campaign strategy.

• Analyzed past sales data and customer behavior to optimize product assortment for the upcoming season.
• Collaborated with the marketing team to design a targeted digital campaign, resulting in a 20% increase in online sales.

• Departmental study of Retailing, Merchandising, cutting, sewing, and finishing.
• Implemented 'Lean Management tool 5S' as my main project and found loopholes and gave solutions regarding quality checking.

• Done textile Internship In Dying, Printing, And Fining. Gain a profound piece of knowledge of every department.

Worked in a technical department as a technical consultant for customers. (Color and software-related problems.)