1. Curriculum Vitae – Rajinder Kumar
Career Interest:
Performance driven Merchandising professional with over 12 years of experience in garment export
industry with experience at both buyer & manufacturing side.
Technical Competencies:
• Product Development: Demonstrate ability to propose & comment on product design, such as
materials used, styles etc. taking into account market trends & customers markets to maximise
business performance
• Order Finalisation: Ensure the order finalisation phases are achieved with aggressive pricing
/presentation of meeting samples, correct interpretation of buyers design requirements, proposing
options with competitive pricings, to achieve better adoption rate.
• Sourcing /Vendor Network: Demonstrate ability to identify, utilize & build effective vendor networks
to maintain & enhance business performance
• Problem Solving Judgement: Demonstrate ability to dig deep by probing for meaningful information.
Use available information & sound judgement to make effective & timely solutions
• Planning & Organizing: Manage one’s own & team activities & priorities in an allotted time frame to
achieve team & organizational goals.
• Communication – Demonstrate ability to effectively explain, describe or convey ideas in a clear,
concise & open manner be it oral or written.
Email:
Rajinderkalwa80@gmail.com
Mobile No:
+91-9999474653
Name:
Rajinder Kumar
Designation:
Merchandising Manager
Current working Location:
Gurgaon
Work Experience:
12 Years
Employment History: .
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Company:: PEARL GLOBAL INDUSTRIES LTD.
Company profile: Knits and woven based company
Position Title: Merchandising Manager
Buyers: Lord & Taylor, HBC, SAKS Fifth Avenue,Marks,Fred Meyer
Period : Since 20014 till date
Responsibilities:
HBC is one of my volume based buyer & all production for this
buyer is based in Bangladesh.
Order execution ,fabric/trims ordering follow up
Product Development, Costing.
T&A & Planning.
Follow with fabric to execute order in timely manner.
To Follow up with Buying team to arrange approval in timely
manner.
2. Address:
House No- 948
Sector- 46
Gurgaon (Haryana)
Personal data:
Gender: Male
Nationality: Indian
Marital Status: Married
DOB: 13/11/1980
Language Known:
English/ Hindi/Punjabi
Company: Matrix Clothing Pvt Ltd
Position Title: Senior Merchandiser
Buyer: Napapijri
Period: Dec 2009-April-2014
Key Responsibilities:
Ensure along with Planning, that orders and forecasts are
passed on a timely basis.
Implement timely and accurate data regarding factory
capacity, capabilities, lead times, first/last ex-factory
dates or other data as required by management for
planning and allocation purposes, including in-putting of
data in all necessary IT systems
To ensure that shipment documentation and data is
provided timely and accurately
Manage day-to-day production tracking, including
fabric/material status, production performance and
proactively address potential delivery problems with
management.
Costing & Negotiation.
Company: Jupiter Consultants
Position Title: Senior Merchant cum QA
Period: February 2007- November2009
Buyers Handled: Roots, Tehama,
Countries: Canada, USA
Responsibilities:
Business Development/ coordination with buyers.
To monitor and finalize the relevant negotiations by utilizing
vendor’s capacity and production planning. Strong
communication and merchandising follow-up along with
decision making for execution of production, quality,
inspection, planning and shipment.
Style Finalization; work on achieving the target mark-ups by
suggesting options in terms of garment detailing. Co-ordinate
with different teams to finalize similar style to have better
compatibility in production.
Costing: taking out final costing, conduct negotiation &
finalization of deliveries.
Worked closely with Designer & Product Development team in
US office for season(Spring/Summer, Fall/Holiday). To ensure
all products/new projects are engineered and developed to
meet price targets while ensuring that appropriate product
value is maintained and shipped according to customer
requirement.
Responsible for vendor selection, advance booking of fabrics/
3. trims, negotiate to fit in the given target price.
Coordinating with different departments fabric, production
and shipping for weekly progress reports of the order.
Company Name: Nahar Spinning Mills Ltd.
Position Title: Merchandiser
Period: Jun 2004- March 2007
Buyers Handled: GAP,CAG,PVH
Responsibilities:
The Profile includes working in a very computer friendly
environment,T&A management, liasoning with the buyer for
the approval process of fabrics,colors,fits,trims,thorough order
tracking on day to day basis.
Coordinating with buying office for latest development of style
& sampling enquiries
Collecting new range of fabric swatches & samples & submit
them to buying office.
Maintaining all sampling records
Coordinating with different factories for sampling and
production
Coordinating with QC Department towards daily progress
report of orders, joining them for inspections
Educational qualification: .
B.TECH( Textile Technology): Punjab Techanical University,Jalandhar.
MBA (Marketing & International Business): Amity Distance Learning
University.
NAME: RAJINDER KUMAR
PLACE: GURGAON