HEMANT SHARMA

Working for one of the fastest-growing leading lifestyle brands in the UAE, Responsible for ensuring initial designs and concepts are translated into workable briefs for vendors to interpret and produce effectively.

• Ensuring the Garment construction methods are maintained to comply with the brands high standards.
• Responsible for analysis of the market styles and trends.
• Discussing risk assessments at proto stage regularly with the supplier, designer and buyer as necessary.
• Monitoring product returns and customer complaints and reporting to QA manager.
• Filing Technical specification, reviews, test reports and relevant correspondence to ensure traceability exists.
• Approving care labeling and testing requirements as well as communicate decision to the supplier.
• Reporting on quality issues in accordance to product approval processes, test results and tolerance levels.
• Carrying out regular store visits to report on quality of fit and make of garments, and to examine competitors.
• Organizing and leading fit sessions.
• Managing factory evaluation audits for process and quality.

Key Achievements

• Introduced new garment construction method for popular Night wear, Sports jogger range, resulted in overall 40% increase sale compared to last year of sale.
• Reduced women's wear design-to-production timeframe by 7 days, through efficient communication of requirements to vendors.
• Created the design brief specs sheet details & impleaded log sheet details of track record sample records.

Working as senior garment technologist for Gulf based lifestyle brand retailing clothing, home & accessories goods. Responsible for ensuring consistent fit through monitoring and elevating the quality of the product and constantly evaluating and improving the fit of garments.

• Conducting fit sessions with the product buyers.
• Preparing the technical package for every single style.
• Advice on correct methods of construction, sizing, and quality for the designated client to pattern cutters, machinists, and factories.
• Ensure construction and styling have been followed as instructed update technical package with fit/pattern correction and explain changes to vendor/overseas offices.
• Suggesting with buyer if any modification needs to change on styling & designs during on FIT & PP approval.
• Conducting in-house washing test.
• Coordinating with buyers and sealing the final sample and graded spec.
• Maintaining inspection and test records.
• Maintaining the company’s SOP system.
• Maintain final inspection records with test report details factory-wise.

Key Achievements

• Boosted overall sales for the "Kids Department" collection by changing specs & improve the quality method.
• Implemented system for weekly basis resolved issue of store & customer complained.

It’s a Manufacturer & Exporter of Woven Garments located at Noida phase -2, India. Dealing in high fashion garments.

It’s a Buying Agency of USA, Europe market, sourcing and merchandising service organization based at New Delhi, India. They are specialized in sourcing Fashion Apparel & Accessories, Home Textile, Furniture and Household products.

It’s an Manufacturer & Exporter of Knitted/Woven’s Garments located at Noida (Uttar Pradesh), India. Dealing in high fashion garments. They are more into Ladies garments.