Harish Kumar

Experience

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  CBC Fashions (Asia) Private Limited

  Oct 2018 - Nov 2018

  Inplant Training
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  Atlas Export Enterprises

  Jan 2019 - Feb 2020

  Merchandiser - ASDA

  1. Strongly participated in product development and sourcing raw materials for home textile products-ASDA 2.Associated with costing and closure on costs3.Communication with internal teams to make sure deliveries on time4.Ordering raw-materials + accessories and sharing it with buying houses & buyers for approvals and follow ups

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  Intimate Fashions (India) Pvt Ltd

  Jan 2019 - Apr 2019

  Project Intern

  1.Projects on Kanban implementation 2.Projects on ensuring Lean manufacturing 3.Warehouse space foot reduction4.R&D on fabric consumption limitation

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  PrimeWeave

  Jan 2020 - Aug 2020

  Business Development Manager - Trainee

  1.Handling business operations on startup brand - Prime weave collection based in Karur, Tamilnadu2. Sourcing yarn + manufacturing vendors for warping, Rowing, Dyeing and printing garments 4. Maintaining strong business relationships with buyers and vendors for seamless businflow5. Exploration in Home textile and upholstery sectors and finding buyers for manufacturing on different product categories that helps the company to grow in width and depth

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  Pearl Academy

  Sept 2020 - Apr 2022

  Business Student

  1.Bootstrapped Project with brand Indian terrain along with its “problem statement “and study on its financials, products, range, competitive analysis.2.Analysing “ problem statement” and worked with brand Diesel - OTB group regarding the exploration of new category extensions, HR policies , brand communication.*SPSF study*OTB study *Buying behaviour *VM setup*Balance sheet study *Launching new line - with complete closures3. Entrepreneurship project on brand “Reverse” from scratch to operations*Brand ideology * Market gap analysing* Mapping customer base and the forecast in market* Planning CAPEX & OPEX planning* Buying plans for AW22 launch collection with its merchandise assortment plan* Collaboration with channels and own domain for setting up selling platform.* Sourcing fabric , accessories and other vendors for better price negotiation and vendor relationships.* Launch and website control and HR activities for the company Show less

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  ARISTOBRAT

  Jul 2021 - Sept 2021

  Project Intern

  1. Associate in setting up organizational structure.2.Warehouse management using KANBAN 3.Participated in product shoot and making samples live4.Set up organizational SWOT analysis and suggestion on the future line the brand has to work on

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  Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd.

  Jan 2022 - Jun 2023

  1. Develop overall season plan and merchandise strategies as per product mix, brand mix and price point. (Ajile + People by Pantaloons)2. Determining high-level financial goals including pre-season Business plans, forecasting, in-season.3. Monitor in-season demand and managing brand contribution, Category-product performances, salescomparisons, monitoring margins & price-point analysis, size analysis, identifying concerns and suggesting actions with a continual follow up plan4. Prepare strategic plan & formulating reports at Product/category levels for sales, margins, percentagemarkdowns / discounts, stock turns, closing stocks etc.5. Forecast the Marketing plans i.e. Home Pages, Category banners, Listing banners, Pop-up's6.Directly working with the brand principles for the Seasonal merchandise flow, replenishment,Marketing activities etc Show less

  • Fashion Trainee

    Apr 2022 - Jun 2023

  • Buying Intern

    Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
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  Novel Jewels (Aditya Birla Group)

  Jun 2023 - now

  Assistant Manager - Gold Merchandising

  Merchandising: Vendor partner and inhouse manufacturing collaboration1. High level of collaboration with our vendor partners in India and Abroad - with the Responsible Sourcing teams2. Engaging with the inhouse manufacturing teams3. Fortnightly visits to vendor partner locations4. Periodic review with the respective vendor partners5. Formulating avenues for strategic partnering along with the responsible sourcing team. This could include Co-creating exclusive collections; piloting vendor-led innovations in Tanishq; rapid prototyping for reduced time to market; vendor managed Inventory buffers etc.6. Deep understanding of market trends and on competitor insights through vendor partnersVendor skill mapping and utilisation of the skills to create differentiationNew products sell through from new vendorsSell through metricsMerchandising: Planning &Execution: Gross Margin improvement.Ensure the achievement of GC thresholds for all new SKUs2. Identify opportunities on product resourcing/ movement of manufacturing setup from vendor to Inhouse or vice versa both from a cost-optimisation as well as from a load-balancing perspective• Gross margin achievementMerchandising: Pricing: Markdown strategy1. Identify poor performing products and propose strategies to ensure their liquidation2. Identify and manage the markdown programmes with pre-defined liquidation objectivesLiquidation of Aged stocks• Margin growthMerchandising: Pricing1. Participate in competitive PriceBenchmarking exercise2. Provide inputs to price revisions for enhancing profitability and sales of select products3. Creating pricing framework which will help in interoperability across all BD Markets4. Engaging with the Pricing team forNovel jewels India to implement all pricing structures and changes.Achieve Category Top line Targets as per planned catpb sales shares though new product introductions6. Monitor the BBPM performance evaluation for vendor returns and share the performance Show less