CHIKA HIRANUMA

3.5 years for cut&sewn division as a global merchandising planner and 0.5 year for women's innerwear division as a merchandising planner for Japan business.

Scope of work

• Weekly, monthly, seasonal analysis on sales and inventory by each size and color. Analysis on chance development for the next season/year.
• Creating weekly demand forecast and making decisions on top up or stopping future orders.
• Creating item allocation plans to the stores and EC, and making weekly adjustment.
• Creating production plan based on desired intake timing and production lead-time.
• Order placement for production factory.
• Creating seasonal buying plans.
• Price setting and weekly sell-out/markdown plans.
• Monitoring inventory in store and warehouse weekly.
• Decisions making of shipment method of inventory in association with logistic team.
• Negotiating production line, production lead-time in association with production team.
• Managing task and deadlines for international members in each local businesses.
• Creating/Requesting local marketing plans based on each business' local buying and demand situations.

Acquired skills

• Demonstrated strong management and communication skills when working with members from different departments.
• Strong time management skills for myself and also as a team when working with international members from different time zones.
• Demonstrated a high level of initiative and creativity while tackling difficult tasks or new tasks.
• Used strong analytical and problem-solving skills to develop effective solutions for challenging situations.
• Ability to work patiently without giving up with high sense of responsibility.
• Skill to multitask.
• Skill for creating sales/inventory analysis using excel.

Scope of work

• Analysis on informal market in Delhi.
• Analysis on growing industry in terms of its chances of exploitation and suggestion on work-trainings to increase refugee's employability.

Acquired skills

• Skill to work in harmony yet efficiently in international team.
• High self health management.
• Skills to utilize all possible resources to complete tasks.

Scope of work

• Managements on sales and profit and loss.
• Placing order and inventory management.
• Store layout and VMD.
• Team management and training staff.
• Creating work schedule for each staff.
• Suggestions to headquarters.

Acquired skill

• Promoted team collaboration, performance, and efficiency by fostering healthy environments focused on each staff's goals and training plans.
• Managed staff successfully in fast-paced environment through proactive communication and positive feedback.
• Skill to listen to customer to understand their needs and developed determination to put put customer on priority.