Job Purpose To manage delivery of Women’s wear Knits & imports in line with the Brand requirements and ensuring adherence to OTIF timelines, target costs and defined quality standards. Enable New product inputs to Brands through vendor partnered developments & Manage trade show sampling requirement. Job Context & Major Challenges Women’s wear is a category which will be one of the key drivers of growth in future. In its current form, it is one of the most challenging categories from sourcing point of view due to low MOQs, complex styling, value add products and a wide product basket. The varied product range requires sourcing to be done from multiple specialised centres like Bangalore, Delhi & Ludhiana. Also India as a country does not have capability to manufacture certain products, hence there is a need for providing solutions for these through international sourcing – China, Bangladesh & China. With International players like Zara, H&M and F21 coming into the market there is a constant need for upgrading products and also offer high value to consumers through sharp sourcing costs. Women’s wear being high on Fashion, job requires solution in terms of providing short lead times and ability to service Closer to Market orders. Key Challenges Alligning vendor base to meet the specific requirements of this category. This is a specialised category and with our current lower MOQs getting and sustaining the vendors is a big challenge. Lowering the procurement process cycle timelines as current design to delivery cycle. Aligning the vendors to the quality standards defined by the brand to lower supply defect/rejection rate to ensure delivery in full. Managing costs in a situation where input costs are increasing and MRPs are reducing. Key Result Areas KRA (Accountabilities) (Max 1325 Characters)Supporting Actions (Max 1325 Characters) KRA1 OTIF Capacity planning, right allocation of vendors, close monitoring of Raw material inputs, Complete monitoring & control of pre production activities, Close monitoring of production status and ensuring on time deliveries. KRA2 Costs Consolidating and negotiating Raw material prices, Right vendor allocation, breaking down the product cost and negotiating garment costs , Re engineer in discussion with vendor and product to achieve optimum cost. Market intelligence and completion information also used as tools for negotiation. KRA3 Vendor Management Alignment of vendor base with demand, product profile. Jointly work with PDQA in improving VPQI levels of vendors. Quick resolution of vendor grievances. Engaging with vendors to value add in terms of design and product inputs. Constantly scout for and add vendors to fill gaps if any to meet the volume & product category requirement. KRA4 Sampling RM Planning with yarn and trim suppliers. Calender adherence in terms of initiating samples. On time submissions and approvals of yarn, trims and protos. Capacity planning and vendor allocation. Close monitoring and control of sampling at various stages to ensure on time and right quality delivery of samples. KRA5 Process Adherence Ensuring on time closures of activities like PC /MRP approvals, PO creation / amendments, ORM updates, Inward / GRN updates. Ensuring adherence to all approval processes like Colour, Testing, Gold Seal, etc. KRA6 Support in quality check of fabric Arrange for fabric samples for PDQA and quality labs for quality checks.