Renjith Soman

Vanheusen Athleisure, Active wear and Innerwear – (2018- April to till date-)

Currently working for Brand Vanheusen, as Group Manager for product, handle Men'sWear and Kids portfolio- Innerwear, socks, Athleisure and Active wear.

Vanheusen become the major player in apparel market segment and holding one of the leading positions in fashion innerwear and Athleisure product.

• Product development, manage all stake holder activity right from development to launch in market, monitor growth of each product category.
• Competition mapping, close watch on market to understand the competitors and to contribute to the growth of the Brand.
• Timeline management on development and launch, follow up with all stake holder right from fabric sourcing, garment sourcing, technical, design, Marketing, work with sales Team for market feedback and need for product to explore new opportunities.
• Calendar management for all new product launch, motivate and follow up with the Teams and get the desired output.
• Manage the cost, OTB allocated, Target the product cost to MRP and keep track on cost structure.
• Strategize the merchandise category and place them at the appropriate level,new product basis market demand and consumer preferences place them at right level.Tail cut the non performing products.
• Managing the month target on inwards, cost, billing and make necessary steps to keep the market hit with right product on time.
• Setting up process and identify the issues in day-to-day activity and align the Team to meet target
• Collaborate with IT Team for Automation, Power BI, SAP Related Functions.
• Experience in PLM, Enovia Fashion management Portals.
• Part of IT Projects like Vendor management Portal implementation, SAP, collaborate with IT Team for SIT and UAT.
• Working with various cross functional Team to contribute to the growth of the product category.
• Lead projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Developed team communications and information for meetings.
• Used Microsoft Word and other software tools to create documents and other communications.

• Product development for T shirt, Sweat Shirt, Sweater, Jacket, Bottoms for Allensolly and Report to Product Development Head, contributed in good growth in Knitwear segments.
• Identify the competition, product range, features, price range, aesthetic, innovation across brand and provide inputs to Design for Seasonal development, Manage product development calendar, review timeline with all stake holders and make sure meets sampling timeline,Trade show management and brief customers on product range, collection, Trend, Value, Coordinate with various channel for order booking on samples
• Product Cost to MRP management, negotiate with sourcing and supply chain for better Product cost to maintain budgeted PC.
• Sell through management across all channel,Competition mapping, identify the gap and place flash line for additional growth.
• Developed Innerwear Line for Allensolly and Successfully launched in EBO as a separate Product category, completely handled entire process right from development, sourcing and Retail, Work with Design to establish collection with all aesthetic requirement.
• Coordination with Vendor for development of trims, and nominated to vendor to source and deliver product to warehouse on time with right quality.
• Coordinate with Retail Team for successful launch in EBO.

• Worked for Brand 'Nautica', handled sourcing of product both Woven and Knits -Categories are - Shirts, bottoms, Knitted T shirts, Underwear/Innerwear for both Men’s and Women’s,
• Successfully handled Sourcing In India Region. handled Regional and report to US, Western hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere destinations based on their requirement.
• process and SOP settings with vendor
• Capacity allocation, Projection and capacity mapping
• vendor allocation by category by product, follow up on all approvals and submissions
• Timely system update and PO management
• working closely with factory based on TNA to execute the PO's on time
• Mapping On time performance by vendor and overall performance of the Brand

Joined Hanes as a Merchandiser in 2008 June. Bangalore office is the hub office for sourcing out of India, Pakistan & Sri Lanka with an approximate turnover of US $ 140-150 million.

Experience in both Men, women, Woven, Knitted (Cotton and synthetic) products.

Job Involved.

• Sourcing, product development with Leading and Midsized Garment Units, understanding their process, work nature and guiding them to deliver products with quality and on time delivery to meet customer deadlines/standards, major volumes being handled for the U.S markets, being a part of Global sourcing, responsible to source and deliver the products on time to other market India, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil and China
• . Experience in handling leading Factories in the region like MAS intimates, Brandix, Jinadasa, Crafter’s, SCM, Classic and Best Corporation, also handling small production setup in South East Asia region depends on volume, program and capability of the vendor,
• Pay regular visits to understand their production, performance and service to determine strategies for future Businesses.
• Vendor Development, production monitoring with South East Asian’s factories (Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh)
  • Perform Costing (Acquire, negotiate & confirm Price with vendors), continue working to get cost savings,
  • Coordinate all related approvals for the style/order. Follow-up with vendor and buyer on Proto samples , Fit, size set ,PP samples and TOP approval to complete the production on time with right quality,
  • Formulating Time and action plan (TNA) with vendors and follow up on the same.
• Work with planning team in various regions, building capacities with vendor in south east region, Issue PO to vendor and system analysis. Report the updates to the planning.
• Conference call with Planning, sourcing Team. Discussion /updation on day to day issues/activities.
• Monitoring ‘at task’ update on new projects,
• Generate weekly report from PO management system to analyze weekly and monthly performance of each vendor,
• Maintain good schedule adherence by closely working with factory to ship on time.
• Co ordinate with vendor and supply chain (Raw materials) for the smooth execution of the purchase order.
  Purchase Order related issues and their level of risk to the customer service.
• Frequent visit to factories in all location to monitor production progress based on the time and action plan & address issues if any for timely execution of the orders.
• Monitoring schedule adherence for the vendors and providing direct inputs to front end on the reasons affecting on time performance in order to help resolve the issues.
• Coordinating in shipping, working with global/local logistic team and providing shipping approvals.

TSS is Leading Buying Agency in India, Major customer is Abercrombie and Fitch, Leading fashion Brand in the world- Abercrombie & Fitch also known as A&F, is an American retailer that focuses on casual wear for consumers. The company also operates three offshoot brands: Abercrombie kids, Hollister Co., and Gilly Hicks, in addition to a post-collegiate brand, Ruehl No.925.

Source both Woven and Knitted garments for Abercrombie and Fitch, Hollister, leading fashion brand, sourced bottoms, Outerwear-Jackets, in both knits and jackets from Leading Apparel Industries.

• Coordination with the factory and the buyer to develop new products, meeting customer deadlines on samples and production.
• Experience garment washes, over dyed program,
• Ensure quality of the fabric/trims based on the spec right from sample to production.
• Coordination with quality team, Technical and Production team to ship products on time.
• Sourced product from leading fashion industries in India Bombay rayon Fashion Ltd, Texport industries, shahi exports, orient craft and also small factories across India,

Job responsibilities are as below: -

• Product Majority of the products handled Woven’s Bottoms and Outerwear for Male div.. Which have lot of detailed construction and specification with different washes,
• Business Development - sample development, costing & generating good business relationship with both buyer and vendors.
• Production monitoring - key ingredients for on time production to start and quality progress, communicate with overseas team on the current production status/new developments,
• Regular follow up on WIP; keep pushing factories to deliver the products on time, analyze development, production with factory team to meet up deadlines.

• Apr 2004 to Apr 2006
  Young style is one of the leading export house in Tirupur, working for brands C&A, Hagkaup, Metalon,
  Handled C&A, Hagkaup.
• Coordination with buying office, handling entire marketing activities and production.
• TNA preparation and execution as per the time and action.
  costing confirmation, follow-up with production team to ship on time.
• Handled the Kids div. the product categories are T shirts, cardigan, fleece Hoodies, Woven and Knitted Pants and also a part of ladies/Men’s high fashion div.