Assistant Vice President - Lifestyle & Fashion Merchandising

Description:

Assistant Vice President - Lifestyle & Fashion Merchandising.

Location: Bangalore.

Experience: 12-17 Years.

Role Summary:

- Lead the Lifestyle & Fashion Merchandising practice, driving large-scale transformation for global fashion, apparel, and retail brands.

- Combine consulting expertise with deep hands-on fashion retail experience to shape strategy, build offerings, and deliver measurable business outcomes across merchandising, sourcing, digital commerce, and customer experience.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead end-to-end consulting engagements in fashion/retail: strategy, digital commerce, merchandising, supply chain, CX, and operational transformation.

- Build and scale the Fashion Practice: service offerings, GTM strategy, thought leadership, and competitive positioning.

- Manage and grow key client relationships; drive account expansion and repeat business.

- Collaborate with internal product, tech, operations, and analytics teams to design implementable solutions.

- Track fashion/retail trends (sustainability, D2C, digital enablement) and convert insights into transformation roadmaps.

Required Qualifications:

- 12-17 years of experience in fashion retail + consulting, with success leading large transformation programs.

- Degree from NIFT, NID, or equivalent institute in fashion, apparel, or design.

- Strong domain knowledge: merchandising, assortment planning, sourcing, pricing, retail ops, trend forecasting, retail tech.

- Proven leadership, stakeholder management, and ability to influence senior client teams.

- Business development capability: driving offerings, proposals, and P&L outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications:

- MBA or degree in Retail Management / Fashion Merchandising.

- Experience in Big 4 or global consulting environments.

- Background in digital transformation for fashion brands.

- Knowledge of sustainability, circular fashion, ethical sourcing.

- Exposure to international fashion markets.

- Familiarity with PLM, ERP, retail tech, assortment planning and analytics tools.

- Practice-building experience (hiring, scaling teams, P&L ownership).