The Ideal Candidate:

- 3-4 years' experience in relevant field (retail, apparel, category management etc).

- NIFT Candidates graduated from Fashion & Apparel management. NIFT fresher also welcome with good grades

- Ready to travel across India for merch sourcing and buying.

- Storing experience in supplier/ vendor management.

- Plan workflow and manage multiple priorities.

- Positive attitude and ability to work with the team.

- Strong and effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator.

- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

Roles/Responsibilities:

- Abilities to find out what is trending in the market. Predict trends and make inwards accordingly.

- Identify new vendors for Design by Nalli as and when needed, constantly be looking for better quality and more efficient costs, and continuous improvement mindset.

- Oversee Design by Nalli Production Incharges in getting samples and getting the Design team's approval on samples for production.

- Troubleshoot costing/quality/deadline challenges and resolve with vendors to ensure commitments achieved; project manage all external and internal stakeholders.

- Identify stock requiring a push and work with marketing teams to provide visibility Provide insights on low selling designs to design team, and collaboratively decide which designs to reorder-kill-modify; keep track of performance of all experiments.

- Ensure Production Incharges fulfill the production numbers within the timeline.

- Informing quality-related problems, encountered during inwarding to the Quality control (QC) team and to the Operations Manager.

- Work cross-functionally with marketing, designers, business analyst, etc while taking up end-to-end responsibility for ensuring stock is on shelves on time in full.

- Support and work with Nalli team and be involved in the analysis of the retail e-commerce market, and competitors to develop a strategic sourcing policy and the business goal for the company.

- Analysing the merch data to forecast volumes of products to be procured by working with the Business Analyst.

- Proactively ensure STRs are high with optimal inventory levels.

- Researching and sourcing the best supplier and maintaining the supplier scorecard to identify the top suppliers/ vendors.

- Manage replenishment and ensure bestsellers always stocked without over-ordering.

- Negotiate with suppliers and make sure that we get the order that we placed.

- Developing and maintaining strong supplier relationships.

- Oversee QC of all orders and review the orders previously, currently placed and identify the reason for QC rejects for the quality improvement.

- Keeping track of Merch performance against the AOP and should make decisions and changes accordingly.