Shubham Jaiswal
Noida
Summary
Key Account Manager | Merchandising and Buying Operations | Marketing & Relation | Customer Acquisition | Marketing Strategy | Business Development |
Solution-Oriented Senior Merchandiser with 6.5 years of comprehensive experience in merchandising, production, Business Development and sourcing within the apparel industry.
Committed to achieving 100% resource utilization and waste reduction by standardizing business processes that enhance operational efficiency.
Skilled in managing P&L responsibilities, developing marketing strategies, vendor relationships, and team training to ensure continuous growth and customer satisfaction.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Merchandiser
Samshek
Noida
09.2024 - Current
- Lead the Merchandise team to optimize the buying cycle. Optimize the current B2B and D2C business portfolio, and set up new processes to improve the procurement strategy and ensure that the shortest possible cycle of production is met.
- On time fulfillment, and ensured that all products are launched on the launch date in fulfillment. This involved capacity planning and production planning with the Factories & suppliers, along with ensuring that all levels for timely inspection are in place.
- Sharing the detailed tech packs, specification sheets, and quality standards for coordination with vendors.
- Working with vendors for development, sampling, and initial costs.
- Monitor supplier performance, conduct regular audits, and address any issues or non-compliance.
- Working closely with clients to ensure designs are followed as per the tech pack, and sharing weekly updates on progress.
- Produced routine assessments of key performance indicators and sourcing stats, providing recommendations.
- Led development initiatives to improve quality and time management within vendor teams.
- Aligned sourcing operations with corporate objectives via teamwork across materials, warehousing, and logistics departments.
- Managed merchandising tasks involving sample creation, sample quality analysis with the design and garment technician, and overseeing production operations.
- Facilitated seamless communication between buyer and Factory.
- Identified areas within the organization where cost savings could be achieved through more efficient operations.
Senior Merchandiser
Creatnet Services Ltd
Noida
06.2023 - 08.2024
- Catered high-end premium clients of Australia and USA. Worked as a core design partner by collaborating with designers to create a business pitch for seasonal collections, advising on the right fabrics, adding value to design in their price points, and aligning with customers.
- Organized fit sessions with designers and garment technologists for real-time fit reviews.
- Boosted overall gross margin by selectively acquiring top-notch goods at favorable prices from reliable vendors. Directly responsible for the smooth flow of operations, with cost-effectiveness and optimum utilization of resources, with zero wastage and extra shipping with buyer permission.
- Price negotiations and order finalizations from all the buyers.
- Annual Sales Meeting with the CEO for aligning the projected against the booked business for meeting the goals for achieving the threshold gross margins.
- Working and communicating with factories to discuss future business and issues related to running productions. Capacity analysis and planning with PPC, weekly production, and merchandising review to resolve issues and problems.
- Preparing and keeping follow-up of the Time and Action Plan process, including order confirmation to final packing.
- Weekly Zoom calls with customers to close collections, critical points, and upcoming new season calendar planning.
- Taking all the approvals on samples, lab dips, strike-offs, and accordingly giving the final go-ahead to all the teams.
- Onboarded new vendors, artisans, acquired samples, and negotiated merchandise deals under the best pricing.
- Making the Bill of Materials and handing it over to the fabric and trim sourcing teams, I managed various operations, such as sourcing products, price negotiation, order booking, and costing.
- Product development as per directions from the buyer, with technical assistance for producing feasible products that are also production feasible.
- Ensured timely seasonal sample range development to meet product review deadlines so that buyers can do the maximum number of sales with their agents and can place a good quantity for bulk with us.
- Regular visits to the factory to check the real-time progress of all the styles.
- Sharing the callout's with clients if there is a design or any technical challenge that is non-production feasible, and also making sure that factories are following the TNA agreed upon for the ex-factory.
- Ensured to Share the packaging List with customer for approval & raising the final payment invoices for remittance, while making sure that all the tracking details are shared by the freight forwarder for Real Time Status.
Production Merchandiser
Faballey / Indya
Noida
06.2019 - 06.2023
- Faballey & Indya operates exclusive websites and brand outlets, alongside multibrand stores, for retail D2C fashion in women's and kids' apparel.
- Onboarding new vendor scoping and onboarding, in keeping with business and category challenges.
- Managed CMT and getting the garments made at the given target prices.
- Negotiated the deliveries from all the suppliers according to the delivery plan for GRN.
- Well-versed in managing the categories of kids' and complete women's western, and high-fashioned ethnic wear.
- Experienced in managing and curating a diverse range of women's ethnic wear categories, including sarees, draped sarees, dupattas, palazzo pants, Sharara, lehenga, and many more.
- Communication with vendors on order status and follow-up for outstanding fit, pre-production, and top-of-production samples, so that the GRN can be done on the planned dates in the warehouse.
- Sharing the real-time DPR with internal teams.
- Reviewed the customer feedback with the design and buying team.
- Design review meetings with the buying and marketing teams for upfront buying, as per the global market standard, for every channel separately, as required on EBO, MBO, omni channels, and online websites.
- Managing the data of sales reports, returns, cancellations, rejections, stock inventory, GRN of the warehouse, fabric capacities in stock, fabric and style codes generation, and purchase order creation through the Unicommerce portal.
- Managed the virtual inventory stocks on websites, and executed the orders once received as per the selected.
- Executed MTO orders within 24 hours and shipped to the warehouse for the brand Indya Luxe.
- Multiple designers' collaborations were also executed in a short lead time, with accurate embroidery, digital and screen prints, and all other value-added work.
- Handled the shipping of approximately 350,000 to 400,000 monthly units in production.
Education
High School Diploma -
Bal Bharati Public School
Noida05-2015
B.Des (Textile Designing & Merchandising) - Merchandising
Amity University
Noida05-2019
Skills
- Margin optimization
- Pricing strategy
- Vendor negotiation
- Order management
- Product lifecycle management
- Fashion buying
- Quality system review
- Range planning
- Merchandise allocation
- KPI tracking
- Production scheduling
- Quality assurance
- Customer-centric
- Root-cause analysis
- Material planning
- Cross-functional teamwork
- Operations management
- Production planning
- Cost reduction
Date of Birth
- 15th March 1997
Languages
Hindi
First Language
English
Intermediate (B1)
B1
French
Beginner
A1
Accomplishments
- National Skill Development Corporation (Government Of India Ministry for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship) National Skill Qualification Framework -5 (QP No. AMH/Q0901)
Certification
- Lean Six Sigma Cerification
Affiliations
- Data-Analysis
- AI-Prompt Engineering
Timeline
Senior Merchandiser
Samshek
09.2024 - Current
Senior Merchandiser
Creatnet Services Ltd
06.2023 - 08.2024
Production Merchandiser
Faballey / Indya
06.2019 - 06.2023
High School Diploma -
Bal Bharati Public School
B.Des (Textile Designing & Merchandising) - Merchandising
Amity University
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