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Manager -Product Development
s.Oliver Bernd Freier GmbH & CO. KG
Oct 2012 - Present (12 years 2 months)
Trend forecast and analysis ; silhoutte mapping, sketching and moodboard presentation; range development for all women and junior segment-knits;woven and leather.- apparel and accessories
also include fabric and trim sourcing and vendor managment.Pricing and competitor brand analysis is also the prime responsibility.
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Assitant Professor - Fashion design
Pearl Academy of Fashion
Jun 2012 - Oct 2012 (4 months)
Handled Design for UG fashion design 3rd year and PG FD fashion design first year. Trend study ; moodboard and silhoutte architecture ; range planning and development with inclusive of product development and its merchandise for Women ;Men and Junior product categories
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Manager Design and PD
House of Pearl Fashion Limited
Jul 2011 - Oct 2012 (1 year 3 months)
Serving as the design and PD centre for various markets-US,EU,Australia and Canada
trend scouting,research,setting up collection ,sampling and presenting it to the clients is the major role.
moodboard and silhoutte architecture, color thema and graphic are being developed according to the brand needs.
costing , fabric and trims development.
Travelled and participated at the global design week at the respective headquarters in the US ,hongkong,CA.
offering alternate solutions and clearing bottlenecks are also a prime responsibility.
Managing a team of designers to exibit professionalism and to produce 100% hit rate at line adoption.
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PD Manager
Indo Pacific International
Jan 2009 - Jun 2011 (2 years 5 months)
Served as a prominent person in giving a new outlook to the products for the basspro shops ,woolrich and fornarina.
Creating concepts, setting up product lines and presenting it to the brand during the design week at their respective head quarters -springfield ,pennyslavania . been responsible for increase in profit for the mentioned years. travelled across the United states along with the brand directors and participated in setting up styles for the season.Prototype sampling and competitve pricing is also a key responsibility..
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PD and Merchandising
s.Oliver Bernd Freier GmbH & CO. KG
May 2005 - Jan 2009 (3 years 8 months)
Was a key member of the Product centre at HK representing the whole of Asian countries. Created product lines in concurrence to a particular concept for the entire casual women,qs female and junior girls category. participated and accomplished higher adoption rate of products at the design week held at Germany for every season. Created styles,sampled,costed for all 12 collections in a year. been spontaneous to produce collection every month. shown a remarkable increase in the 2007 for the casual women segment due to higher adoption rate and ontime delivery of salesman samples with competive pricing. offered alternate soultions and cleared bottlenecks.
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Merchandiser
Ambattur Clothing Ltd
Apr 2003 - May 2005 (2 years 1 month)
Was responsible for the entire PD for J-jill,Esprit - women and men ;Gap - mens , May store . handled the cost and its respective merchandise untill the order was materilised.Received appreciation from Gap on account of timely execution of samples.