1. Curriculum Vitae Niranjana Pitre
Career Objective
Business Development & Category Development with growth oriented organisations
And to provide value added services for the growth of the organization and to
attain Maximum knowledge and skills both professionally and technically from the
available source.
Experience Summary
12 years of experience in Buying, merchandise planning, new business development,
market share expansion and achieving Sales targets for business, leveraged with finely honed
interpersonal and time management skills to successfully manage a team and increase
profitability & have a genuine passion for selling, merchandising, business expansion and
contributing towards the value of a brand.
Work Experience
Currently working as a Manager – Future Retail India Ltd (Future Group
Venture), Mumbai. Since Dec’08
FEB 2012 till date
Responsible for:
• Owning the business responsibility.
• Merchandising Sales strategy and expansion of product portfolio.
• Review sales trends by store & at inventory level, do timely course corrections
& adjustments.
• Maintain store assortment & inventory levels within the ideal assortment &
defined stock turn target and thereby ensure high fill rates & also avoid stock
over-runs.
• Develop talent within the team by providing consistent direction and support to
achieve targets and take leadership position.
• Develop& place systems and processes to achieve 'Customer Centricity' as a
key value across all levels of the organization
• Driving necessary promotions.
• Buying & Sourcing- Merchandising through assortment planning & strategic
buying – based on robust forecasting, competitive & cost advantage through
diligent negotiations.
• Building and consolidating the business model: Going deep & understanding where
opportunities are and close on them.
• Brands and Vendor network management & operations.
• Ownership of all category specific sourcing & marketing activities
• Deliverables include sub category-wise traffic, conversions, and customer base &
revenue generation.
• Maximization of Gross margin, stock turns & ROI.
• Identifying the growth areas and new business scope within the existing & new
category.
2. Curriculum Vitae Niranjana Pitre
DEC 2008– FEB 2012 Deputy MANAGER (Furniture)
To improve efficiencies in stores across the country through effective forecasting,
merchandise deployments, product-mix, replenishment systems, training,
managing costs, inventory management, Visual Merchandising, manpower
planning.
Responsible to deliver the complete operations of the store within the
parameters.
FURNITURE CRAFT INDIA PVT LTD
July 2007 Manager Mumbai
A reputed UK based furniture manufacturing and trading company in retail
business with one showroom in Mumbai and six showrooms in the UK. It offers
complete interior solution, manufactures furniture and they are experienced
traders who also offer furniture trade on contract basis.
Responsibilities:
• Fully involved with the daily operations of the Retail Showroom.
• Display Layouts of the Furniture, Product Pricing, Organising Discounts
Structure, Co-ordinating with the Print Media for Advertising, Handling Key
Accounts and all the other aspects of the Showroom business.
• Responsible for Production and Site Installation.
• Conducting regular checks at the production warehouse and supervising
the activities in order to maintain Quality control.
• Execution of all retails and contract jobs from site measurement, delivery
of materials, distribution and assembling as per the plan design taking into
account controlled usage of materials.
• Delivering with Aesthetic and structural conformity for the client’s product
requirement with integral accountability.
• Certifying and standardizing sampling requirement as per client’s
specification, so as to ensure that prototypes are made as per necessities /
specification within the stimulated time frame and planned schedule.
• Managing Local Vendor development for supply of raw materials to the
production warehouse.
• Negotiate for better prices and payment terms, evaluating products,
deciding retail prices and discounts.
• Conducting briefings and discussion forums with the company frontline
staff to discuss various sales techniques and skills to increase the sales
volume.
Achievements:
Successfully handled all support to Retail Outlet operations and thus increases
in sales, customer enhancement and brand building.
Content development for Retail outlet involving daily operations.
3. Curriculum Vitae Niranjana Pitre
FURNITUREWALLA
• July 2002 – July 2007 Manager Mumbai
Furniturewalla is a large speciality furniture showroom situated at Andheri,
which deals with classical, contemporary, ethnic and colonial range of furniture
with nine branches all over India.
• I joined this company as a sales representative in July 2002 reporting to the
General Manager.
Responsibilities:
• My job profile as a sales representative were Understanding the client’s
requirements, look the right product, recommending the client the various
products of interest and getting orders and finalizing and executing the
orders with complete satisfaction of the client.
• After considering a highly efficient and profitable performance I was
promoted as a Branch Manager at the Chennai branch in 2004. I handled
the entire Chennai branch for one and half year with great success and
significant improvement with regards to the sales performance at the
branch.
• In the year 2005 I was promoted and transferred back to Mumbai as a
Regional Manager reporting to the G.M.
Regional Manager
• 2005 –2006 Regional Manager
• Co-ordinating with pan India stores for Stock transfers, Daily reports,
Discounts, Suppliers and other branch payments, Recruiting new staff and
appraisals for existing staff, Store display with right product mix and
keeping the branches informed about the new arrivals, Expansion of new
showrooms
Manager 2006 -2007 Reporting to the Managing Director.
• Sales targets, MIS, Complete logistics handling, import / purchase, Sales
promotions, advertising, Overall co-ordinations with various departments
and branches for smooth operation and profitability of the company,
Established new branches for the company planned and implemented all
strategies.
• Achieved growth as per yearly budgeted planning.
• Worked as profit centre head and was responsible for implementation for
business strategies.
Achievements:
Exceeded in achieving the sales target.
Awarded the best Branch manager for enhancing the business at the Chennai
branch. Year 2004
Academic Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy), University of Mumbai, 2003
4. Curriculum Vitae Niranjana Pitre
Professional Qualifications
Certificate in Honours Diploma in Web-Centric computing from NIIT.
Andheri October 2003
Personal Profile
Marital Status Married
DATE OF BIRTH 14th
June, 1982
Contact info +91 9920693698
E-Mail cutegemenian@gmail.com
Address V 11, 201 Pratapgadh Co.op housing society,
Ashokvan Borivali East Mumbai 400066
LANGUAGES KNOWN Equally fluent in English, Hindi & Marathi
INTERESTS & HOBBIES Interested in reading, music, movies and sports.
STRENGTHS Excellent man management and inter personal
skills. Ability to merge into any environment
comfortably. Sincerity and the ability to
communicate well.