REENA FRANCIS, 13 Years Working experience in Garment merchandising and Buying .

About

Motivated drove professional with 13 years (6 years in UAE) of rich and versatile working experience in the highly competitive & constantly evolving Retail & Export Garment Industry.

Experience

Dream Uniforms LLC

Aug 2016 – Dec 2019

Dubai

Senior Merchandiser cum Marketing

Senior Merchandiser cum Marketing, Dream Uniforms LLC, UAE (Aug 2016 to Dec 2019) Handling GCC schools &GCC government category. Client – Sharjah police, Dubai police, Etihad Airways, Emirates Transport, RTA, Dyson, GCC International schools, Institute of applied technology & Adveti  Responsible for check in the client meetings & appropriated approvals from them.  Responsible for Marketing and finding new clients  Handed online sales in 12 schools all over GCC around 8000 students with customer dealing.  New product development and order execution.  Correlative with the working team, supplementing the work & observe the subordinate work.  Self & team development through constant training & coaching.  Sourcing & Importing the new products from China & India  In control of Overseas & local production, supply chain work (China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh)  Build effective teams & strong vendor relationships to drive operational improvement and delivery result in terms of quality & on-time delivery.  Managing the approval of Fabric, Lab dips, Trims, and Samples.  Accomplishing the monthly turnover reports, production reports & working with future projects for company growth.  Cost calculation, factory selection & factory auditing.  Establish the accurate and timely preparation of all necessary reports &records  Ensure strict confidentiality in maintaining all the documents entrusted.  Effective collaboration with Buying, Commercial terms, and Suppliers.  Maintain a high level of product knowledge & ensure the product is procured within the accepted standard norms of quality and fit.

Euro Trouser Manufacturing Company

Jan 2013 – Jun 2016

Sharjah

Senior Merchandiser Cum Planning

Senior Merchandiser Cum Planning, Euro Trouser Manufacturing Company-Sharjah (Jan2013toJune2016) Retail Brands managed UK& UAE (Asos, Harvey Parker, Matalan, Urban Outfitters & Landmark Group)  To closely worked with Landmark group-buying team for new product development.  To plan new product development, Production Planning, Seasonal Forecasting, & Order execution.  Costing, Order Forecasting & maintain order and production plan charts.  Managing the approval of Fabric, Lab dips, Trims and Samples.  Conserve the critical path for all the styles & follow up with the Clients.  Sourcing & Purchasing trims fabrics & make sure arrived in a timely manner.  Day to day management of new developments & Production issues.  Checkout the production/coordinates with the production team, including QA to ensure delivery is on time up to final inspection.  Team management & Vendor Management.  Sourcing new fabric qualities, trims, products & potential suppliers.  Ensure that production is in the right place at the right time and in the proper quantity & quality.  Maintain and update product information to suppliers as well as an update to customers.  All the brands have taken care of individually and to punch in Client meetings & investigate the meeting instructions.

Merchandiser (Buying & Operations)

Jul 2008 – Dec 2013

India, Chennai

Fab India Overseas Pvt Ltd

 E-Commerce, B2B order fulfillment for all the 185 Fab India store’s online orders within expiry the date.  To establish OTB and buy a plan in coordination with the B& M manager.  Planning and allocations team to develop and execute seasonal plans & merchandising strategies.  To conduct Promotion, sales events, and exhibitions.  Conduct periodic store visit to collect the feedback from the stores.  Responsible for product and category mix, revising the pricing strategy, space and product assortment plan  Coordinate with the Central distribution center, Quality controllers, Stores, VM teams, logistic team & any other function on issues related to the brand.  Responsible for category sales, monthly sales turnover performance, and target achievement.  Skilfully manages the processing of various retail pro reports, invoices creation.  Responsible for setting product pricing through margin analysis and & competitive market research.  Development of new products with domain specialists and close association with a product designer.  Managing the Inventory - stock audited twice in a year & Maintaining the MSF  Negotiate prices in line with desired the good margin, placing the order & tracking the shipment.  Identify & shortlist potential vendors to develop new products and competitive to get a reasonable rate.  Assure the pre-production quality check is executed in a timely manner with the quality control manager collaboration.  Determines the buying requirement & formulates the buying plan as per the budget.  Develop a healthy relationship with the suppliers.  Conducting monthly meetings with regular & new vendors.  Coordinate with the managing team to discuss with sales report & future forecast.  The slow-moving items for conducting discount sales to improve the sales and clearing dead stock.  Marinating the critical path for all the styles & make sure deliveries from the suppliers.

Education

Apparel Training and design center. Kinfra

Jan 2006 – Dec 2006

Diploma in Apparel Production Technology, Apparel

St xavier's college

Jul 2000 – Aug 2004

Bachelor Degree, Bcom