Himanka Nag

Experience

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  Aditya Birla Group

  Feb 2010 - Jun 2011

  Fashion Consultant
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  Titan Industries Limited - Tanishq

  Jul 2011 - Sept 2012

  Retial sales officer
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  Best Seller Retail India Pvt Ltd

  Sept 2012 - Jun 2013

  Fashion Consultant

  As a department manager in veromoda

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  Landmark Group

  Jul 2013 - Nov 2014

  Deparment Head in centrepoint

  Department head for home fragrance

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  Apparel Group

  Dec 2014 - May 2022

  Retail Store Manager

  As a retail store manager in the athletes foot. • .Retail Store Operations• Budgeting & Cost Controls• Shrinkage Reduction/Loss Control• Analytical • Customer Service Excellence • Teambuilding/Training/Supervision • Inventory Management• Merchandising Strategies • Business awareness• Managing almost 15 brands with team of 14 members including 1 Assistant Manager , 1 visual merchandiser.• Back office administration, reports and Business intelligence (BI).• SOP management and Implementations.• Conduct Audits as per the territory’s procedure, and ensure that the SOP’s are in place. • Stock movement and Analysis, ensuring effective liquidation of merchandise.• Identification of paced and slow-moving merchandise.• Providing a qualitative feedback to the Buying Team of each product movement, demand, customer feedback, problems or defects, pricing, Lost Opportunities, Gaps.• Focus on imparting product information to all staff members.• Monitor staff’s individual performance and see thru their quarterly and annual appraisals.• Forecasting monthly sale for all brands and the store.• Responsible for staff in store training.• Annual Budgeting. • Maintaining Proper Visual Merchandising of the Entire store.• Man-power management with cost effective measures. Show less

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  Sun & Sand Sports

  May 2022 - Oct 2022

  Retail Store Manager

  Retail store operations, people management & business intelligence.As a retail store manager in sun and sand sports • .Retail Store Operations• Budgeting & Cost Controls• Shrinkage Reduction/Loss Control• Analytical • Customer Service Excellence • Teambuilding/Training/Supervision • Inventory Management• Merchandising Strategies • Business awareness.• Back office administration, reports and Business intelligence (BI).• SOP management and Implementations.• Conduct Audits as per the territory’s procedure, and ensure that the SOP’s are in place. • Stock movement and Analysis, ensuring effective liquidation of merchandise.• Identification of paced and slow-moving merchandise.• Providing a qualitative feedback to the Buying Team of each product movement, demand, customer feedback, problems or defects, pricing, Lost Opportunities, Gaps.• Focus on imparting product information to all staff members.• Monitor staff’s individual performance and see thru their quarterly and annual appraisals.• Forecasting monthly sale for all brands and the store.• Responsible for staff in store training.• Annual Budgeting. • Maintaining Proper Visual Merchandising of the Entire store.• Man-power management with cost effective measures. Show less

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  Azadea Group

  Nov 2022 - now

  Universe manager

  • Opening Team for Decathlon Bahrain city centre store.• Setting goals and objectives.• Leading the sustainability project in Decathlon for the past 1 year.• Developing store commercial policy, seasonal layout plan, and timetable for commercial campaigns.• Recommending price modifications.• Monitoring sales figures, inventory, profit & loss report, stock levels and ensuring that weekly and seasonal targets are being achieved.• Ordering frequently in order to ensure adequate stocks, maximum range, and size availability.• Ensuring a high level of customer service in the store.• Developing and maintaining a calendar for the shop events and communicating it to the team.• Supervising the communication of shop events and promotions to customers through social media tools.• Communicating with wholesales customers, and local suppliers.• Negotiating collaborations with local sport clubs in order to increase brand awareness and boost sales.• Anticipating market trends and competitors' activity.• Monitoring of stock movements: Transfer between stores, from and to warehouse, damages, devolutions.- Analyzing hourly/daily/weekly sale.• Monitoring selling items/missing sizes/items in order to meet stock performance, target sales, and high sellout.• Recruiting, training, motivating, and evaluating team members to ensure they have the necessary skill base and required image.• Managing annual allocated budget by monitoring expenditure, optimizing and reducing cost where possible and reporting variances vs budget oversee.• Ensuring that the shop is in compliance with the brand standards.• Following up on the online sales process and ensure availability on the platform.. P&LSkills: Supervisory Skills • Sales • Time Management Show less