Experience

LIBERTY MILLS

• Marketing Manager



LIBERTY MILLS

• Pakistan
• Textile Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Marketing Manager

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  Market Research for new business developments.  Planning and strategies of the export business and export turnovers.  Managing Export Accounts  Correspondence with buyers, liaison offices and buying agents in Karachi.  Managing all aspects of Export Marketing, Costing, Pricing and negotiations.  Approvals of designs, printing & dyeing programs and bulk productions.  Approvals of bulk cutting & stitching of all concerned orders in production dept.  New Development,  Sampling – strike-offs, photo samples, technical samples etc. My key account is ASDA -U.K for home division.  Follow up and monitor on all orders from greige fabric till shipment plus logistic  Keep records of new & running designs, artworks, samples etc.  Filing  Since last 12 years attending the Heimtextil fair.  Plenty of visits to U.A.E, France, Germany and Spain for the meetings with the buyers. Show less



GIA Export Marketing Services - Textile Sourcing Company

• Karachi - Pakistan

• Head of Home Textile Division

  • Aug 2000 - Nov 2013

  I was a sourcing agent for various European and North American Textile buyers like Springs , Targets , Brylane, Co Stores, Domestications, Garnet Hills, Fingerhut -Bluestem, Blair, Dan River etc;for USA and Blanche Porte France , 3 PAGEN Germany, Venca Spain, Quelle Fr, Senior & Cie France, Rhapsody U.K, JD Williams U.K. with very good relations with the almost all leading textile mills and factories in Pakistan. . My responsibilities were :- • To negotiate the prices on behalf of our buyers to offer best possible prices/price comparison, • To provide best services, new design collections, variety of items and products, new developments and research etc., from our various suppliers, • To make sure the all shipments ready as per buyers' requirements and as per buyers' standard on time. • Source and develop new products lines for our clients on their given guidelines enabling companies to have current designs and patterns in their inventories. • To provide freight forwarding and consolidation by sea or air as an additional service to our clients. • To organize the buy meeting trips in Pakistan, Dubai, Heimtex Fair Frankfurt and buyers’ offices I had sourcing of all types of following home textile items:- a) Home Textile items like bed sheets, fitted sheets, pillow cases, bolsters, duvet/quilt covers, cushions, comforters, bedspreads [quilted/jacquard/matelasse heavy weights], blankets, curtains, swag curtains and throws etc., in woven and knit jersey fabric as printed, plain dyed, yarn dyed with embellishment like lace, frill, embroidery, applique, hem stitch, bourdon stitch etc., with different styling. Also Flannel prints and dyed. b) Kitchen accessories like table cover/cloth rectangular/rounded, aprons, gloves, place mats, kitchen towels, napkins in duck fabric, twill, waffle, sheeting, terry etc in printed, dyed, yarn dyed and with embroidery. c) Furnishing like sofa covers, chairs covers, cushions and furnishing fabrics. Show less