Shirish Srivastava

• Strategic Sourcing and Business Growth Leadership: Architect and execute sourcing strategies tightly aligned with business goals, driving profitability, market expansion, and sustainable competitive advantage.
• Product Development and Innovation Excellence: Lead the full product creation lifecycle — from strategic briefing to range launch — ensuring milestone-driven execution, innovation acceleration, and market-ready collections that anticipate consumer needs.
• Cross-Functional and Strategic Partnership Management: Forge and nurture high-impact partnerships across domestic and international ecosystems while strengthening collaboration with internal merchandising, sales, and marketing teams to drive cohesive go-to-market execution.
• Supply Chain Digitization and Operational Agility: Digitize and transform supply chain processes to enhance speed, transparency, and efficiency, optimizing inventory management and ensuring seamless merchandise availability across channels.
• Sustainability Leadership and Cost Optimization: Embed eco-conscious practices across sourcing and production, delivering sustainability targets while leveraging deep product expertise to unlock cost efficiencies and strengthen margin performance.
• Business Performance Analysis and Customer-Centric Excellence: Analyze and report business performance to drive data-backed decisions, implement rigorous return controls, and elevate the end-to-end customer experience, setting new industry benchmarks for loyalty and satisfaction.

• • Defining seasonal development calendar,Proto and sample cycles and costing levers to support the product.
• • Align product to market processes and lead team through each season with clear targets and guidelines
• • Work closely with the design team, garment technology team and manufacturing team for complete synergie
• • Responsible for driving the strategic initiatives and processes such as speed , Seasonal Plan, vendor readiness and monthly book for the brand
• • Accountable for vendor allocation and aggregated costing for their area of responsibility (in line with seasonal strategies and brand targets)
• • Maintain operations/process/IT tool knowledge of team. Continue to digitize the supply chain for seamless information flow and minimum human interface. Integrate 3D fitting into our regular fitting sessions.
• • In partnership with brand and product to market leads, ensure development plans are in place for the team
• • Provide Product Creation teams with category insights to align brand needs with category strategies
• • Responsible for day to day people management for India office (e.g. performance management, staffing, rewards, approvals etc.)

• Execute seasonal and short-term sourcing plans, utilizing knowledge of South Asia sourcing Matrix to meet line financial, quality, aesthetic, safety and terms-of-engagement requirements.
• Communicate development , Capacity and price requirements to meet line margin and delivery requirements.
• Provide alternatives to merchandising/design teammates to meet commercial requirements at the most competitive cost. Identify and enable opportunities to leverage library of components, fits, and sources.
• Involved in product execution from sketch to delivery, including material alternatives, garment engineering, sample management etc
• Developing and managing high-performing vendor team, ensuring current and future business needs are met.
• Analyze and calculate costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure.
• Enhanced customer satisfaction by resolving disputes promptly, maintaining open lines of communication, and ensuring high-quality service delivery.

Responsible for In house manufacturing and offshore sourcing of Inner wear ( Bras) for a Leading Lingerie brand in India- Enamor

Responsible for end-to-end supply chain management of Brand Esprit ( womenwear division) which was mamaged by Impulse trading House in India

Managed Production, Planning and Allocation of a factory with over 1000 machines at India's leading Export Group.