Divisional Merchandising Manager @ Bengaluru (Knitwear)

Designation: Divisional Merchandising Manager (Knitwear)

Experience: 15+ Years

Location: Hulimavu, Bengaluru

Must have experience in Knitwear merchandising and handling international brands.

Must have good experience in managing a team.

Roles and responsibilities

• Represents for presentation and costing meetings.
• Displays & Shares our collections to obtain orders for the coming season
• To get orders from International Buyers, either from their buying houses, liaison offices, buying agents or directly by visiting buyers in their India and international offices.
• Represents for presentation and costing meetings; Displays & Shares our collections to obtain orders for the coming season.
• Displays maturity & winning attitude in effectively negotiating & achieving target profitability by verifying whether the style in discussion is viable in terms of manufacturing / profitability
• Books production capacity based on orders / forecast received from the buyers & ensure that the space booked is effectively used.
• Optimizes production by ensuring handiness of capacity for orders booked by interfacing with central planning.
• Reviews and follows up with the team in line with Time & action calendar to ensure that all materials / approvals are in place prior to the PCD.
• Plans in consultation with production heads & follows production status on bi-weekly basis to ensure production is on time. Trouble shoot wherever needed.
• Reviews and follows up with merchandising team, quality team and production team to ensure quality merchandise are shipped out. Trouble shoot wherever needed.
• Effectively follows up the target with the concerned department & maintains cordial relationship with all the other departments in the organization
• Adds & expands business value by developing & managing clients & accounts effectively.
• Effectively follows up on the payments once the shipments are executed depending on the payment terms e.g. T/T; L/C at sight / 30 days / 60 days etc. In co ordination with the accounts / documentation dept.
• Maintain Cordial relation with all departments
• To strategies innovative ideas to simplify process and make it more efficient
• To generate required MIS reports and provide the same to the concerned Departments.