Rajinder Kumar is a merchandising manager with over 12 years of experience in the garment export industry. He has experience developing products, finalizing orders, sourcing vendors, problem-solving, planning, and communicating effectively. He currently works for Pearl Global Industries handling major buyers like Lord & Taylor, HBC, SAKS Fifth Avenue, and Fred Meyer. Previously he worked for Matrix Clothing and Jupiter Consultants merchandising for brands like Napapijri, Roots, and Tehama.

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