Location: [Thane / On-site / Hybrid]
Type: Founding Team | Full-Time | High Ownership
This is not a traditional merchandising role.
Your primary responsibility is to build and own our production and vendor ecosystem across India — identifying the right factories, developing new vendor relationships, ensuring quality, speed, pricing, and getting production executed successfully.
You will work closely with founders to build products from concept → sourcing → sampling → production → launch.
Your job is simple:
Find the best vendors, get great products made, and ensure speed + quality + margins work together.
Identify, onboard, and build relationships with new factories and vendor partners across India
Develop strong network across:
Garment factories
Embroidery units
Print units
Wash units
Dyeing units
Surface ornamentation vendors
Fabric suppliers
Trim/accessory vendors
Continuously discover better vendors for:
Cost
Quality
Speed
Capability
Innovation
Actions to be Taken:
Travel extensively for sourcing and factory visits
Build backup vendor ecosystem
Negotiate better commercials and MOQs
Reduce production dependency risk
Get production executed end-to-end through partner factories
Ensure:
Timely production
Quality consistency
Proper finishing
Correct execution of embroidery, print, embellishments, trims
Solve production bottlenecks proactively
Actions to be Taken:
Speed up production timelines
Reduce delays and defects
Improve factory coordination
Ensure commercial quality standards
Finalize:
Fabrics
Techniques
Embroidery
Surface developments
Garment executions
Work closely with founders to develop commercially relevant products
Ensure category assortment balances:
Fashion
Commercial viability
Margins
Drive sampling process end-to-end
Get qualities fixed before production
Ensure:
Fit consistency
Fabric quality
Construction quality
Finishing standards
Actions to be Taken:
Minimize production errors
Reduce returns caused by quality issues
Improve repeatability in manufacturing
Negotiate:
CM cost
Fabric pricing
Vendor pricing
Ensure commercially viable production
Actions to be Taken:
Improve gross margins
Reduce unnecessary cost leakages
Improve production efficiency
Coordinate timelines across:
Design
Production
Vendors
Operations
Ensure products launch on time
Research:
Menswear trends
Fabrics
Techniques
Surface developments
Competition
Strong experience in vendor sourcing & factory development
Strong network of garment factories and vendor ecosystem
Ability to get production executed at speed + quality
Strong negotiation skills
Comfortable travelling extensively across India
Strong understanding of:
Garments
Fabrics
Embroidery
Surface techniques
Production
High ownership mindset
Comfortable building from scratch
Strong vendor ecosystem built
Better quality at better cost
Faster production turnaround
Lower dependency on few vendors
Better margins
Strong product execution with fewer issues