Fashion

Health & Fitness

•	Wholesale/Retail Buying
•	Product Merchandising/ Assortment Planning/Pricing Strategy
•	Inventory Management and Demand Planning
•	Product distribution and Tracking	•	Sales and Report Analysis
•	Marketing and Promotions
•	Vendor Management
•	Order Management
•	Store Operation
•	ERP/Information Systems


?	Key Responsibilities:
•	Handling apparel and footwear category for all the cash and carry stores in India (known as Best Price Outlets).
•	Forecasting product demand and supply to ensure optimum levels of inventories.
•	Range planning and OTB planning based on report analysis of historical data.
•	Determine demand forecasts to support inventory control operations for assigned warehouses. 
•	Prepare, report and communicate forecast and inventory measurements to management
•	Maintain a database to store and update inventory data on regular basis. 
•	Support inventory planning for holidays and special promotions. 
•	Plan product assortment for various stores. 
•	Buying apparels and footwear to meet the sales and profit targets.
•	Design and generate detailed historical seasonal reports.
•	Plan seasonal buying process by creating buy plans with historical data.
•	Manage the current open to buy limits during the purchasing process.
•	Create and maintain seasonal demand forecast to manage seasonal buying plans.
•	Review style sales and inventory to determine under stock and over stock situations.
•	Weekly analysis of sales to inventory ratio for all products at all stores.
•	Daily analysis of sales of VPI’s and KPI’s at stores.
•	Create seasonal markdown strategy with sales team.
•	Assist in resolving any warehouse related issues and concerns. 
•	Recommend process improvements to prevent out of stocks and overstock issues 
•	Plan rollout of new products. 
•	Schedule regular meetings to review demands and inventory levels. 
•	Work with sales and marketing team to identify sales opportunities and forecast.
•	Planning costing of the products, managing the product life cycle.
•	Managing inventory at the stores and at the vendor’s end.
•	Preparing a blue print to list articles/products that need to be run on ARS.
•	Monitoring the ARS PO’s, revising them as per sales trend and OTB limits.
•	Ensuring regular rotation of fashion apparels. Ensuring slow moving stock is returned back to the vendor.
•	Organizing promotional activities.
•	Developing product packaging to boost corporate sales.
•	Identifying product gaps and introducing new products. 
•	Generating PO’s, maintaining offers in the system.
•	Training the vendors to help them understand the sales trend and thereby help them plan their production and inventories.
•	Constantly training the floor staff to enhance their product knowledge, sales, and relationship with customers.

Assistant Buyer/Demand Planner/Merchandiser

•	•	Handling toys, sports and fitness equipment category across the entire North Zone for 23 stores.
•	Forecasting product demand and supply to ensure optimum levels of inventories.
•	Range planning and OTB planning based on report analysis of historical data.
•	Determine demand forecasts to support inventory control operations for assigned warehouses. 
•	Prepare, report and communicate forecast and inventory measurements to management
•	Maintain a database to store and update inventory data on regular basis. 
•	Support inventory planning for holidays and special promotions. 
•	Managing inventory at the stores and in the warehouse.
•	Plan product assortment for various stores. 
•	Managing sales and margin across all the stores. Create and maintain seasonal demand forecast to manage seasonal buying plans.
•	Review style sales and inventory to determine under stock and over stock situations.
•	Weekly analysis of sales to inventory ratio for all products at all stores.
•	Daily analysis of sales of VPI’s and KPI’s at stores.
•	Formulating action plan to achieve the targeted topline and bottom-line.
•	Planning costing of the products, the product life cycle.
•	Managing business with existing vendors by planning production, price strategies and product life cycle, launching events to promote sales. 
•	Identifying product gaps and introducing new products. Developing new vendors.
•	Training the vendors to help them understand the sales trend and MIS of the system.
•	Generating PO’s and barcodes in SAP. Maintaining articles and prices, updating offers.
•	Using BIW to monitor the sales, net margins and mark downs.
•	Organizing promotions to enhance market visibility, sales and build customer relationships.
•	Drafting assortment plan and pricing strategy for the upcoming new stores by doing in depth market analysis.
•	Ensuring section layout and display are as per plans.
•	Maximizing sales per sq. ft.
•	Training the floor staff about the products being sold, customer services offered, product life cycle and display.

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walmart

Future Group, India

Birla Institute of Management Technology