Buyer - Womens Western Wear

- Responsible for end to end Buying and Merchandising activities including OTB (open to buy) planning, Range planning, Planogram, booking seasonal order, and Vendor management.

- Analyse - Sales, Margin, Sell through, Inventory holding, product design and competition benchmarking.

- Allocating budget at category and sub category level

- Arriving at the option count for the season & calculating the depth to be bought per option.

- Reviewing Budgets weekly throughout season, taking appropriate action for opportunity buy

- Preparing the range plan for booking seasonal order and vendor management

- Entire Design selection and finalization with the suppliers.

- Placing seasonal orders with key account, suppliers, distributors and follow up.

- Maintaining strong communication and business relation with vendors

- Streamlined Vendors supply chain process to reduce the lead time.

- Educated the Vendors on their STR contribution and improve business YoY.

Retail planning activities :

- Analyzing the Revenue, margin, sq ft return and PP strategy

- Analyzing the inventory holding and ways of liquidation.

- Analyzing slow performing stocks and putting appropriate schemes for liquidation

- Handling all national and regional brands through various business channels including Key Account, Distribution network