Ramesh Eswar

• Partner with the buying team to create seasonal strategies relating to all KPI’s
• Manages and controls the critical path with the Buyer, to ensure deadlines are met and potential problems identified at line and brand level
• The ability to plan and organise self-whilst managing and developing the team
• Manages intake with Buying to work on the products for the upcoming seasons and managing margin / options / newness.
• Manage relationships with vendors and support vendor allocation & aggregated costing along with overall capacity planning aligned to the cost targets to drive competitive advantage
• Partner with vendors to drive innovation initiatives and superior quality while resolving any fabric/product and quality issues pro actively
• Look for opportunities for continuous improvement in product development, process management and overall sourcing procedures
• Doing Costing excise with vendors for the Key programs before every season and share the outcome with Buyers, to give Buyers a hint on the trend of the prices
• Following of factory certifications of Social Compliance along with OEKO TEX/GRS SCOPE

* Order enquiry handling, costing & order confirmation, follow-up, time to time decision making

* Problem solving in the vendor production difficulties, process follow-up, Day to day Buyer communication

* Planning & executing of Buyer’s visit twice a year and visiting client at their France office once a year to take collective feedbacks of all their dept. for improving the service. Traveled to France for 4 times till now and traveled to china for supplier meetings

* Handling overall regular merchandising & sourcing activities

* Handling suppliers across all over India & China with a team of 5 Merchandisers & around 1000+ styles every year

* All costing activities and negotiating and finalizing the prices with vendors

* Monitoring all Pre-production and production activities in daily basis

* Preparing critical paths to all buyer orders for fabric, sampling, preproduction, production and Merchandising activities

* Solving all kind of issues with the depth without affecting the Buyers and vendors

Handling all Merchandise activities of TDP TEXTILES UK account