Buying Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Factory & Cluster Leadership Build and manage deep factory partnerships across Ludhiana, Tirupur, Ahmedabad, Surat, Mumbai, Delhi.

• SKU Strategy & Curation Own SKU onboarding aligned to label × price range demand cues; ensure sharp transfer prices and 10-day sell-through.

• Team Building Hire and lead a team across sourcing, merchandising, and quality — with strong on ground execution DNA.

• Wholesale Economics Drive transfer price discovery, cost negotiations, and ensure margins are wholesale competitive and scalable.

• Process & Quality Control Institutionalize product approvals, QC processes, and production reviews to ensure zero tolerance for quality misses.

• Demand-Sync Merchandising Integrate closely with city-level demand sensing and trader feedback loops to constantly refine label playbook.

Must-Have Skills

• Sourcing DNA – Proven experience onboarding and scaling factories for apparel.

• Wholesale Acumen – Understanding of transfer prices, label strategy, margins, and wholesale competitiveness.

• Merchandising Mindset – Balance of commercial sense, trend relevance, and sell through velocity. • Team Leadership – Ability to build and manage sourcing/merchandising/QC teams across multiple clusters.

• Negotiation Expertise – Strong costing background across knits, wovens, denims, shirts, trousers, jackets.

• Execution Rigour – Thrive in fast-paced, unstructured environments where speed × accuracy matters. Ideal Background

• Buying/Sourcing leadership roles in Vishal, V2, Citykart, V-Mart, Reliance Trends, Future Group, or large wholesalers.

• Track record of scaling men’s western wear categories (shirts, t-shirts, denims, trousers, jackets).

• Strong factory relationships and networks in Tier-1 and Tier-2 apparel clusters.