Head - Merchandising - Garment/Textile/Apparel Sector

Work with a well known garments brand, designing a variety of Indian style clothing. Read on to know more.

Our client is the most sought after traditional Indian outfit manufacturing and exporting company. Their contemporary and stylishly designed clothes are full of unique patterns, matchless embroidery, gorgeous mirror-work and beautiful block prints.

Almost a decade old, it is a venture committed to bring together a varied range of traditional crafts and techniques of dyeing, weaving, printing and hand embroidery. The founders have dedicated their life to promote Indian Block Prints and provide employment and Hand-Embroidery training to women so that numerous underprivileged women can be empowered.

As a Lead Merchandiser, you will be responsible for creating a master file for all samples and attachments to ensure production is exactly as per the designer's first sample.

What you will do:

- Establishing checks and balances for smooth execution

- Liaisoning with the designers for clarifications. approvals and sign offs

- Submitting pricing proposals and production cost estimates

- Calculating the production costs and sharing this with the Manufacturing Head for execution to further deal with external/ internal vendors/ stakeholders

- Creating of the production plan. This exercise would be conducted in partnership with the Designers and the Business Head of the company

- Ensuring alignment on the production plan with concerned stakeholders in the manufacturing team

- Ensuring that execution is as per the launch plan

- Ordering fabric, ensuring its availability in house (as per schedule) and verifying the quantity received vis-a-vis the order

- Authorizing if the fabric can be used for manufacturing or not

- Setting up stringent and robust processes to ensure quality assurance of the raw materials (mainly fabric) at the source of printing/weaving

- Benchmarking the company's products, samples and accessories with others in the industry and submitting competitor analysis to the designers and Business Head

Candidate Profile:

What you need to have:

- MBA/Masters in Supply Chain/Planning

- Prior experience as a Merchandising Head in the apparel sector

- 10+ years of relevant experience (preferable)

- Strong Planning skills

- Analytical aptitude

- Customer FIRST Mindset

- Excellent communication Skills

- Strong interpersonal Skills

- Adept at stakeholder management

- Technology Mindset

- Exposure to process automation

- People management ability

- Strong prioritization and organizing skills

- Ability to get work done through others

- Ability to multitask