Customer Service Manager

Suresh Bhatia

Mobile: 213-***-****

Email: **********@*****.***

Skills

Successful Accounts Payable Manager with over 20 years experience in

Purchasing, Operations and International Sourcing

Strong Price Negotiating Skills with Ability to Quickly Develop Strategic

Partnerships with Key Vendors

Extensive experience in Asia

Hands on Ability to Take Charge of Production and Purchasing at Worldwide

Locations Simultaneously

Culturally Astute

Extensive Entrepreneurial Abilities

Ability to Cultivate and Motivate Cross Cultural Staff

Customer Service Focused With Emphasis on Partnering With Both Clients and

Vendors

Extensive Worldwide Resources

Intense Yet Easygoing Personality with the Ability to Deal Effectively with

all Levels of An Organization

Education

Bachelor of Arts-Economics University of California-Berkeley

MBA Drucker School of Business-Claremont Graduate University(in Progress-

Scheduled completion 2012)

Career Highlights

December 2004-July 2010

ManagerAccounts Payable/Operations

CMT Apparel

Handled Purchasing, QC, sourcing, import logistics and inventory

control for production company with offices in Los Angeles and

Southeast Asia. Travelled to Asia, worked with factories in China and

Vietnam, producing knits and wovens for clients such as James Perse,

Barneys New York, Vince, Velvet, Marmaxx and Nordstroms Rack. Worked with

third party inspection companies for final production audits, sourced

compliant factories for publicly traded companies and set up

production and product development office in Vietnam. Developed garment

dye woven program for James Perse out of Vietnam.

July 2002 - December 2004

Purchasing/Operations Officer Posh LLC

Apparel manufacturer with operations in Vietnam

Purchasing/Operations Manager Pepe Jeans

First employee in this future publicly traded company that was eventually

purchased by Tommy Hilfiger-Developed Company from start up to $65 million

in revenue in 8 years

Hobbies & Other Interests.

World Traveller-Voracious reader -Semi Gourmet Cook -Conversational in

Sindhi (East Indian dialect) and Spanish-Co-Chair Carpenter School Dinner

Dance-2010 which raised over $250,000 for Carpenter School.

Special Computer Skills: Quickbooks-2008-Microsoft OfficeExcel-AIMS

and F/X Software and Implementation, Google Docs, Wordpress web design

software, Webex Document Sharing

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