Santosh Bandari, DGM ARROW SPORT Design in Bangalore, India

About

Business development & Sales oriented Design personal with 11 years of specialized experince in the Fashion/ Clothing Industry with experience in Domestic Retail segment & Exports. Dedicated to achieving company’s sales targets while providing excellent customer service by virtue of Design, R +D & Product development. Superior records of surpassing expectations on design front with Key fashion brands. Keep up to date with new technology & Trends to cater to Fashion forward customers. Widely traveled—especially North America, Europe, and Far East—and with a larger cognizance of the global fashion and lifestyle business realm.

Specialties

Specialties: Specialties

-Product Strategy, Design Mgmt, costing and negotiations.

-Indian Consumer Psycho graphics, Emerging Possibilities in Consumer Discourse

-Range Architecture, Product Design & Dev

-Merchandising Strategy, Volume-Value-Pricing Framework,

-Fashion Buying, Demand Forecast,

-Retail Identity, Visual Merchandising

-Apparel Marketing, Brand Semiotics

-Fashion Advertising, Communication Strategy, Publicity Initiatives

-Sourcing, Vendor Mgmt, Costing & Price Negotiations

Education

PG knitwear design and techonology

National Institute of Fashion Technology

2000 - 2002
Bachelors of commerce Accounts

Pragati mahavidyalaya, hyderabad

1996 - 1999

Experience

DGM

Arvind Lifestyle Brands

Bengaluru, India

Jun 2014 - Present (10 years 6 months)

Heading Arrow sports
Global Manager for Product Development& Design , R&D

Quiksilver

May 2011 - Apr 2014 (2 years 11 months)

Trend analysis, product development , vendor management, costing
Design manger

JCPenney

Jul 2006 - Apr 2011 (4 years 9 months)

working closely with Design directors and Textile mangers on the trend, colors and fabric information - to incorporate the same for development of design concepts.
1. Work closely with design team (Dallas) throughout product development processes
2. Research, develop and recommend graphic, styling concepts encompassing fabric, color.
3. Prepare the line and presentation material for trend concept work session for assigned brand
4. Interpret the seasonal fashion direction & trend shopping (national –international ) research in perspective of brand profile and share the same with suppliers to achieve the maximum out in design development for the season
5. Worked on the technical aspects of the print designs like repeats, techniques and washes.
6. Working with factory on different wash
Sr Designer

Numero uno

Feb 2003 - Jun 2006 (3 years 4 months)

1. Deciding colors for different seasons according to color forecast, market research and self-research,
2. Trends study and forecasting, conceptualizing design range planning
3. Range planning in view of exclusive stores and retail stores and MBO’s
4. Flash ranges for different region and seasons.
5. Regional presentations, and catalog presentation for the fashion shows

Awards

Most creative collection awarded 2002

Skills

Elsewhere on the Web

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On Coroflot

@sixthfold, member since 2008

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