Madhan Krishnamoorthy

Experience

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  Spencer's Retail

  Jun 2005 - Oct 2007

  Assistant Manager-Staples (Buying & Merchandising)@Spencers Retail Ltd for Hyderabad/Visakhapatnam

  Scrumptiously managed:o Staples and Fruits & Vegetables categories for Spencer’s hypermarket & daily stores apart from floor operations for hypermarket to drive sales, margin and income for the categoryo Pricing & price correction through constant benchmarking with competition mapped and promotions for regular cycles for both the formatso Developed & executed Planogram to manage inventory cover, stock replenishment, stock out and stock ageingSuccessfully led:o Source identification & consolidation of fruits and vegetable with grading practiceo EDLP Pricing through constant benchmarking & markdown decisions to drive top line category improvemento Perishables front-end management of Planogram with promo focus; developed Dump & Shrinkage Save Module for strengthening bottom line of fresh category Show less

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  Aditya Birla Retail Limited

  Oct 2007 - Mar 2011

  Deputy Manager for Staples (Buying & Merchandising)@Aditya Birla Retail Ltd, Headed Tamil Nadu State

  At Aditya Birla Retail Ltd.o Successfully headed staples buying & merchandising for More supermarkets for Tamil Nadu Regiono Steered efforts in forecasting & production planning to meet out the distribution centers’ requirement and cost controlling of RPC (Re-Packing Centre)o Extended knowledge and expertise during training sessions on the specialized areas of products and bulk pack selling focus to Operations Team

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  Reliance Retail

  Apr 2011 - Nov 2016

  Managed:o Staples NHQ Team, engaged in cereals buying & merchandising & met sales targets cereals category across PAN India stores in various format like Fresh, Super, Mart and SB Storeso Sourcing, vendor development, costing, negotiating margins, vendor scheduling for branded cerealso Development of the vendor source against the specified quality norms with comparative price advantage as well as buying & replenishment of stocks for the continuous cycle of the cereals categoryo Merchandise planning, width and depth of assortment and data analysis of the product performanceo Periodical assessment and review of quality benchmark with competition and implemented the correction with vendors as well as training the vendors to ensure complianceso Stock inventory for the category to fulfil the store requirements, monitor current stock level and ensure constant stock availabilitySignificant Achievements:o Prepared and negotiated TOT and JBP for the branded cereals SKUso Designed pricing and promotional strategy for each product category; assisted each state team to take option rebuy, cancellation and markdown decisionso Formulated strategy for seasonal SKUs and implemented pre and post launch like Rice Bharti Melao Devised periodical plans for identification of SKUs to focus and develop review of the same; also coordinated with Private Label Sourcing Team for buying decisions, pricing and promo implementation Show less

  • Senior Manager for Staples (Reliance Fresh, Super & Mart Stores Formats -Headed Karnataka State )

    Mar 2014 - Nov 2016

  • Manager for Staples( Buying & Merchandising - Cereals) for Reliance Retail Stores- PAN India

    Apr 2011 - Feb 2014
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  Bigbasket.com

  Dec 2016 - Sept 2017

  Head of Re-Packing Centre for Staples @ BigBasket.com for Southern India Cities

  o Headed the entire Staples Re-packing & Distribution Centre for cities of South India from inception of the project with machinery & manual packing unitso Managed buying & merchandising of Staples category and the Center which was catering the need of BigBasket Private Label Staples SKUs for cities of southern states like Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam & Chennai

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  Spencer's Retail

  Sept 2017 - Jul 2018

  Senior Regional Merchandising & Buying Manager – Staples @ Spencers Retail Ltd-South India States

  Role:o Spearheading the Southern India Region including Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala stateso Created initiatives, designing events, planning merchandising and managing execution of these marketing events for increasing sales driveo Coordinated with retail outlets, production, quality and dispatch departments for delivery & distribution of stock;handling stocks & maintenance of stocks reporto Ensured profit/margin/other income derived for the category & additionally managing buying/sourcing responsibility of staples products for the concern locations Show less

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  ElasticRun

  Apr 2021 - Oct 2021

  Category Management@ElasticRun Company for B2B e-commerce for Staples Commodities -Tamilnadu

  Handled Category Management @ ElasticRun company for B2B e-commerce for Staples Commodities for Tamilnadu State

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  DealShare

  Oct 2021 - Nov 2023

  Senior Category Manager @ Dealshare.in for Grocery

  Category Sourcing Management @ Dealshare.in for Grocery at Bangalore HO