Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
I am a self-motivated person, striving towards challenges to the best of my ability. I am a versatile and strategic planner with strengths in business development and management. I am professional, enthusiastic and determined to succeed in any new career path, bringing a wealth of relevant experience from earlier successful roles. Focused and commercial I am seeking a full-time opportunity offering the scope to expand my analytical and management skills.
• Project management and B2B management for UK high street retail stakeholders. • Working strictly on the Critical path and ensuring to meet deadlines and lead times. • Strategising objectives and goals in context to sales planning. • Sales forecast planning for B2B and B2C stakeholders. Analysing and converting complex sales data in simpler formats (Spreadsheets, Graphs, flowcharts, etc). • Managing Import merchandising from overseas stakeholders. • Supporting business development by improving sales, getting new orders, and catering to stakeholders’ requirements as per trend/sales forecast. • Creating creative marketing content, templates, and concepts to support business development strategies. • Sourcing new fabrics/design and resources, liaising with trend forecasting and market research. • Costings and negotiations with a wide range of stakeholders. • Established and implemented new departmental policies and procedures for effective working. • Designing simpler templates to convert complex data to simple format using MS Excel, Adobe Photoshop etc. This improved smarter working within internal stakeholders.
• Handled production, sampling, and CMT operations for luxury British manufacturing company and its stakeholders. • Managed day to day administration duties. • Handled complete communication and negotiations with the clients and suppliers/vendors. • Managed critical path and ensure deadlines were met. • Quality control, checking and allocating garments, fabrics and trims as per respective PO dockets. • Created garment costings and specification sheets with detailed tech-packs using vector design-based software. • Developed business relationships with the stakeholders by conducting regular meetings, telephone calls etc. • Manage production team, scheduling their daily tasks, and ensuring goals were met. • Managed a marketing project from the start for television media, created content and graphics.
• Provided high-end womenswear design and construction consultation • Freelanced as a graphic designer providing vector-based design solutions using Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw etc. • Consumer trend research and analysis. Qualitative and Quantitative research. • Freelanced as a wall art designer-created wall murals/artworks.
• Handled product development- merchandising for niche boutique clients from the UK and Europe. • Served as Joint team lead and ensured the team goals were met. • Business Development by taking care of complete communication with the clients and catering new design inspirations, trend research, new sourcing’s and presentations. • Designed womenswear silhouettes and print CAD's. • Created Prints on graphic software’s- Adobe creative suite and Corel Draw. • Trend research and forecast analysis by using WGSN and promostyl. • Managed procurement (Fabric sourcing, trims sourcing ) and negotiations with suppliers. • Supported marketing and communications team with creative ideas and concepts.