Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
A Senior Development Merchandising professional for NIKE at MAS Kreeda Sri Lanka since 2016. I am knowledgeable and experienced in the industry and having a sound understanding of customer requirements and managing them efficiently and seamlessly. With over 14 years of industry experience, I possess an exceptional skill set, including project management, people management, data entry, working remotely, etc... I am a quick learner and flexible in any given job role or environment. I am interested in growing my career and am willing to relocate if needed.
•Managing customer expectations by catering to their specific development requirements, enable the process of commercialization with pricing in a timely manner in order to achieve the set objectives •Managing the customer development calendar to meet internal and external deadlines, requirements and work on new development projects for business growth while maintaining a good relationship with all the internal stakeholders •Together with sound business and merchandising acumen, build relationships and credibility with internal, external teams and the customer to drive efficiencies and operational excellence. •Work with management to ensure all customer communications and customer visit preparations are completed within the stipulated timeframe whilst demonstrating ability to translate customer requirements to meet expectations over and above •The role involves procuring raw material in the right quantity, colour and article in order to ensure availability in accordance with the plan, oversee cost re-engineering, BOM, PLM and salesforce updates are completed in a timely and accurate manner whilst ensuring internal earning aspirations are met to support the achievement of set objectives, ensure risk mitigation at each stage to ensure product feasibility to ensure seamless handover to production •Coordinate the sample development process, participate in development meetings, whilst sourcing fabric and other raw material based on the customer request, in order to ensure samples/ prototypes are completed and delivered timely •Oversee/ support and guide the team in the colour sample process by updating relevant information into the system in a timely and accurate manner to facilitate the effective completion of samples •Negotiate terms such as price, delivery, MOQ/MCQ and gauge availability together with respective fabric technologists and ensure the best raw material suppliers have been identified to optimize benefits in line with customer and business expectations
· Market analyzing of various types of dry food products, fruits, and vegetables. · Attending to front-end customer handling, meetings, etc. · Overseas customer visits. · Importing and marketing of dry fish from Maldives within Sri Lanka. · Handling promotional activities through digital platforms and social media networks and doing product research on the said platforms. · Handled storing, manufacturing, packing, and shipping. · Sourcing and export operation of fruits and vegetables to Dubai.
· Got trained for on stores keeping, warehouse proceedings, and sampling of teas to buyers procedure. In addition, got trained on grading, valuating and tasting of various types of best teas in the country. · Marked the off-grade, BOP1A, high & medium and ex-estate catalogues. · Handled all high and medium, ex-estate, dust and BOP1A top prices for the weekly market report · Covered all ex-estate and off grade forward and sharing batches. · Coordinate with sellers and buyers at high pressure levels. · Visiting tea manufacturing factories to check on facilities and advising manufacturing of the most suited tea to the ongoing market standards. · Handled buyer’s claims and reports.
• Strategizing monthly targets. • Developing and marketing a wide range of products while supervising product fixture of the projects undertaken. • Product research and business analysis. • Initiating business meetings with clients. • Visiting sites and inspection and overlooking the custom manufacturing of our products.