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Summer Internship
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Extracurricular Activities
Projects
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Sujit Ranjan Baral

Sujit Ranjan Baral

Hyderabad

Summary

A focused professional with experience of near 9.5 years in Merchandising, Planning & Store Operations; currently associated with Firstcry.com as Area Operation Manager (Store operation and Business Development)

Enthusiastic & high-energy driven, professional targeting managerial level assignments in Merchandising & Store Operations preferably in Retail industry

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

SR. Area Operation Manager

Firstcry.com
Odisha, Bihar & Jharkhand
07.2022 - Current
  • Preparing stock assortment for new & existing store
  • Expertise in ensuring minimum inventory level for optimizing the resources and disposal of scrap
  • Experience in implementing cost reduction measures to achieve saving in terms of materials, procurement & logistics cost
  • Skilled in planning, directing & maintaining efficient central planning, Order Management, Product Category Managers; assigning & evaluating the work performance of personnel assigned to store
  • Hands-on experience of monitoring receipt, inspection, storage, cataloguing & inventory, preparing bills of material and distributing stock commodities & manage the supply chain
  • Skills in formulating & implementing the project procurement strategy and establishing methods to achieve project targets & resource planning
  • Team-based management style coupled with the zeal to drive visions into reality
  • Skill in vendor management & vendor identification/selection -Daily vendor coordination for supplies of local & regional vendors.

Sr. Area Retail Manager

Page Industries Ltd.
Hyderabad
07.2019 - 06.2022
  • Handled more than 45+ stores of Jockey EBO’s
  • Developing assortment plan for stores & getting the same implemented at store
  • Analyzing the sale performance & implementing the required changes in assortment on monthly basis
  • Allocating new lunches to the stores depend on the store’s sale & performance
  • Coordination with SMs & VM to make sure that products are displayed at best possible way to increase store visibility & sale
  • Providing insights & recommendations to operations based on weekly analysis
  • Making NSO plan – based on catchment area, reference store & sales target
  • Working with the VM team to finalize the planogram for the new/existing stores
  • Coordinating with the channel sales team for getting stock available at distributors point
  • Placing the manual order for the ad hoc requirements of the stores
  • Appointment of new distributors in the assigned area & inventory management for distributors.

Merchandise Planner & Concept Manager

Lifestyle International PVT. Ltd.
Hyderabad
06.2014 - 07.2019
  • Develop & maintain strong relationships with Sale, Marketing, Special Services, Central planning, Order Management
  • Worked with managers to develop seasonal sales, receipt budgets & flow my month
  • Worked with merchandising & marketing team to develop promotional strategies
  • Analysis of promotional strategies effectiveness & make future recommendations
  • Demonstrates up-to-date expertise in merchandising and applies this to be development, execution & improvement action plan
  • Managed monthly core vendor performance & assist the merchant in evaluating issues
  • Conducting the monthly business meeting with divisional merchandise Managers & inventory control team to review business
  • Management of inactive inventory, working with merchants on dispositions to ensure product is either return or proper markdown to help return of goods
  • Develop strong working relationships with vendor
  • Weekly analysis of business performance to identify opportunities or issue
  • Pre-season topside merchandise planning at a department /class/sub class/Style
  • Checking incoming & outgoing of materials to ensure accuracy, completeness and quality of materials, managing the physical verification of closing stock & fixed assets
  • Administrating procurement of raw material, packing material, equipment & machinery including maintenance of minimum stock/inventory level
  • Checking of floor capacity Vs physical capacity of the store
  • Ensure display of all category of stocks available in store
  • Maintaining the ledger of material inventory, WIP and inventory level of finished goods
  • Interacting with customers for providing first line customer support by answering queries & resolving issues
  • Monitoring the delivery of high-quality customer experience, elevating customer satisfaction, while adhering to the SLAs and work processes.

Education

PGDM (Finance & Marketing) -

Asian School of Business Management
01-2014

B.Com.(Accounting) -

Dhenkanal Autonomous College, Utkal University
01-2011

12th -

Dhenkanal Junior College, CHSE
01-2008

10th -

B.B High School, BSE
01-2006

Skills

  • Franchisee Management
  • New Franchisee Acquisition
  • Property Acquisition
  • Leasing and rent negotiations
  • Merchandising
  • Central Planning
  • Order Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Store Operations
  • Stock Planning
  • Inventory Management
  • Planogram
  • Team Management
  • New store opening
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Store Assortment
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Word

Personal Information

  • Location Preference: PAN India & Overseas
  • Date of Birth: 01/11/91

Summer Internship

Bajaj Electricals Limited, Bhubaneswar, Market Survey on CFL Bulbs, 2 months, Analyzed the market trends for requirements

Languages

English, Hindi & Oriya

Extracurricular Activities

Showcased leadership skills while leading NCC team in school & received NCC ‘A’ certificate. Ranked 2nd in National Rural Talent Search Examination. Achieved ‘First Prize’ in Quiz Competition at block level & district level. Represented the school in State Level Cricket Tournaments. Worked as an active member of Student Welfare Council, ASBM Worked as an active member of Red Cross Society

Projects

OMFED Marketing, Learnt about the procedures entailing Sales & Marketing

Timeline

SR. Area Operation Manager

Firstcry.com
07.2022 - Current

Sr. Area Retail Manager

Page Industries Ltd.
07.2019 - 06.2022

Merchandise Planner & Concept Manager

Lifestyle International PVT. Ltd.
06.2014 - 07.2019

PGDM (Finance & Marketing) -

Asian School of Business Management

B.Com.(Accounting) -

Dhenkanal Autonomous College, Utkal University

12th -

Dhenkanal Junior College, CHSE

10th -

B.B High School, BSE

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