Shuvashish Podder

• Oversaw business staffing and training, building successful, customer-focused team.
• Managed stock within set minimum and maximum levels to serve customers without over-extending finances.
• Created seasonal sales plans with varying stock and promotional strategies.
• Kept business in compliance with internal controls, industry regulations and health and safety requirements.
• Established clear budgets with sound controls to keep business operating with optimum finances.
• Oversaw visual merchandising efforts that enhanced overall store appearance.

• Optimize sustainable sales growth and profitability with the right quantity, the right timing, at the right place and at the best price
• Participate in defining vision, strategy, goals and timeline together with the team leader
• Supporting the team with buying follow-up securing the right assortment mix and volumes
• Performing ongoing sales analysis and identify future potential and risk
  Short- and long-term actions constantly optimizing the assortment and planning going forward
• Take responsibility for the controlling and secure the balance between top-down vs. bottom-up perspective

• Ensured timely delivery of products by overseeing logistics processes.
• Coordinated seasonal collections with design teams for trend alignment.
• Managed buying team, resulting in improved product selection.
• Led negotiation discussions for better supplier contracts.
• Trained junior merchandisers, contributing to their professional growth.

• Maximize short and long-term profitable growth for Menswear in the region

• Adapt and implement a global assortment strategy aligned with the company's objectives and regional needs
• Optimize the Global assortment strategy to meet regional needs by defining key must wins in collaboration with the Assortment team
• Influence prices, quantities, incomings, assortment width, and manage regional product lifecycle through collaboration with the assortment team
• Optimize net selling by establishing clear commercial priorities per channel, by identifying and acting on the sales opportunities/threats
• Influence and execute the global product strategy from Business Units and Global Merchandising
• Localize the global price position for each country within the region

• Worked as an extended wing of H&M buying and looking after all product development, buying plan and market decisions. This role helped me to gain a complete knowledge on trend analysis, production development and selection for the collection and making the buying plan.
• One of my biggest accomplishment was to finding a suitable solution to reduce dependency on some specific qualities from one supplier and spread it out globally, which not only reduce the dependency but also enable profitability for the company.

• -Worked and supported on the sourcing and production of
  brands like - K-Mart, Target, Primark, Inditex, New Yorker etc.
• Price negotiation with buyers and suppliers to secure
  profitability for the sourcing office.
• Source supplier for suitable style based on the product
  quality and styling.
• Make critical path with supplier for production plan and
  shipment.
• Follow-up with shipping team for on-time shipment and
  payments.