Mannandeep Kaur

Managing end-to-end merchandising and assortment planning across 40+ contemporary fashion and lifestyle brands, ensuring commercial success across online and offline channels. Driving product assortment, inventory allocation, pricing, and replenishment strategies based on sales trends, consumer demand, and seasonal opportunities. Managing key brand partnerships while collaborating closely with designers, vendors, and internal stakeholders to maximize category performance. Monitoring sell-through, inventory productivity, stock ageing, and assortment performance to optimize buying decisions. Identifying growth opportunities through sales analysis, market trends, and customer insights to improve category productivity, leading to increasing the presence of 6+ brands from 1 store to upto 5 stores. Coordinating seasonal launches, promotional campaigns, and inventory planning to ensure strong commercial performance.

Managed buying, merchandise planning, and inventory strategy across handbags, apparel, footwear, and licensed categories including watches and jewellery comprising 4,000+ SKUs. Developed seasonal assortment plans using sales performance, market trends, and customer demand analysis to maximize revenue and profitability. Improved inventory productivity by 20% through optimized assortment planning, replenishment, and continuous inventory balancing across channels. Drove pricing, markdown, and product lifecycle strategies that improved gross margins by 12%, leading to improved EBIDTA. Collaborated with global brand teams, license partners, retail operations, and supply chain teams to ensure timely product launches and stock availability at all times. Monitored weekly business reviews, category performance, sell-through, and inventory KPIs to support commercial decision-making. Reducing replenishment lead times by 25%, improving stock availability across retail and e-commerce channels. Improved online channel contribution from 26% to 37% in 5 months by optimising sku level inventory and continous sku level analysis.

Led end-to-end category management across furniture, home furnishing, apparel, and accessories, delivering 8% YoY business growth. Developed seasonal buying strategies, assortment plans, and OTB budgets aligned with consumer demand and commercial objectives. Improved sell-through by 16% through data-driven assortment optimization, product lifecycle planning, and pricing strategies. Reduced stock-outs by 35% through enhanced forecasting, supplier collaboration, and replenishment planning. Maintained inventory turns above 5x through disciplined inventory investment and stock optimization. Customized regional assortments using cluster-level performance analytics, increasing localized conversion by 10%. Successfully executed new retail format launches (Shop in Shop), contributing 11% of store sales and driving 8% incremental revenue. Developed inventory liquidation and markdown strategies that improved cash flow while protecting brand profitability. Partnered with international sourcing teams, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver seamless seasonal launches.