Priyanka Sharma
Phone no: - 781-***-****
Objective: - Fashion Merchandiser
Summary
Nine years and eight months in Fashion Merchandising Planner with a broad range of experience from ground floor Production, managing and handling not only the follow up of the order but the whole supply chain. Have knowledge starting with yarns dying and fabrics, and ending with the sale of finished products, which is mainly clothing but also includes household and industrial textiles.
Management
Looking after the color scheme according to the Fabric and Season and moreover understanding the buyer need. Managing the team of people and responsible for coordinating with factories and buyers very closely to ensure that all the samples and bulk production are shipped on time as per the Quality parameter and Sizes set by the buyer.
Burger Bae - Ludhiana (Currently working)
Job Responsibilities are mentioned below.
Managing assigned categories to ensure on time samples (product life cycle management) that meet design intent and brand quality standards
Daily communication with vendors to ensure all samples are accurate and received on time
Timely communication with internal/global teams on product updates
Negotiate costs with vendors to ensure margin requirements are met at style and category level. Partner closely with sourcing team
Partner closely with design to engineer product to meet margin targets
Partner closely with design team on all approvals related to product development
Manage to calendar to ensure all critical milestones are met (support peers across departments) to meet all deadline deliverables and ensure fully commercialized product prior to PO’s
Partner closely with production team on all production deliverables
Be the category expert – be knowledgeable of category status and manage all reporting for assigned categories.
Lecturer in cutting and Tailoring
Date: - 21/01/2013-28/06/2013
Institute: - Guru Nanak Dev University
Duties:-
My main job duty of a fashion design instructor is to teach introduction to fashion design, fashion history, apparel construction, pattern making and textiles. Also teach fashion drawing, sewing techniques and merchandising moreover gets them aware about the upcoming fashion as well as various hand stitches just to give decorative look to the garment.
Date: - 01/04/2012-27/11/2012
Company: - New diamond fab trend Pvt Ltd
Title: - Fashion merchandiser
Duties:-
Planning and organizing production schedules.
Selecting, Ordering and purchasing materials.
Supervising the work of junior staff.
Re-negotiating timescales or schedule as necessary.
Determining quality control standards.
Overseeing production
Date: - 29/09/2008- 06/11/2009
Company: - Orient Clothing Co Pvt. Ltd.
Title: - Fashion Merchandiser
Duties:-
Provide technical advice and support to Production team
Evaluate the sampling for the production, identify the difficulties may arise during pre-production and product estimate the efficiency
Responsible for fitting approval, size set, pattern and technical problem solving
Communicate fitting comments and provide technical advices to customers to ensure the products/ samples are meeting to their standard for production
Minimize the fault in the production process
Strengthen the production and making improvement for the production if necessary
Provide training to Production team that support rapid growth expectations
Keeping up to date with emerging fashion trends as well as general trends relating to fabrics, color and shapes;
Planning and developing ranges.
Working with others in the design team, such as buyers and forecasters, to develop products to meet a brief.
Understanding design from a technical perspective, i.e. producing patterns and technical specifications for designs.
Sourcing, selecting and buying fabrics, trims fastenings and embellishments.
Education
Four Year degree in Fashion Designing from G.N.D.U
(July 2004 _ May2008)
Scored 75%
Diploma in Apparel Merchandising from Pearl Academy of Fashion.
From August 2007/March 2008