Assistant Manager / Sr. Executive - Marketing (Knitted Fabrics)

Loyal Textile Mills; Chennai; In loco; INR 600.000 - 900.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Loyal Textile Mills in India seeks a dynamic business development professional to build and nurture relationships with garment exporters, brands, and fabric sourcing professionals. The role focuses on understanding customer needs and delivering knitted fabric solutions aligned with end-use applications.

You will identify new opportunities, participate in negotiations, and support growth through proactive account management and market intelligence. Travel to key textile hubs is expected.

Competenze

• Graduate or Diploma in Textile Technology, Textile Engineering, Fashion Technology, Apparel Management, or a related discipline.
• 3–10 years of experience in knitted fabric marketing, merchandising, sourcing, business development, or customer relationship management.
• Good understanding of knitted fabric manufacturing, dyeing, processing, garment applications, and textile supply chains.
• Exposure to garment exporters, brands, buying houses, or fabric sourcing organizations is preferred.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, presentation, and relationship management skills.

Mansioni

• Develop and nurture relationships with garment exporters, apparel manufacturers, brands, buying houses, sourcing offices, and fabric sourcing professionals.
• Understand customer requirements and recommend knitted fabric solutions aligned with end-use applications.
• Identify new business opportunities and support conversion of enquiries into long-term partnerships.
• Participate in commercial discussions, proposals, and negotiations while aligning with company objectives.
• Support achievement of business growth through proactive account management and customer engagement.

Conoscenze

Relationship management

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Cross-functional coordination

Travel readiness

Formazione

Textile Technology / Textile Engineering / Fashion Technology / Apparel Management

Descrizione del lavoro

Role & responsibilities

Business Development & Customer Engagement

• Develop and nurture relationships with garment exporters, apparel manufacturers, brands, buying houses, sourcing offices, and fabric sourcing professionals.
• Understand customer requirements and recommend suitable knitted fabric solutions aligned with their end-use applications.
• Identify new business opportunities and support the conversion of enquiries into long-term customer partnerships.
• Participate in commercial discussions, proposal preparation, and negotiations while ensuring alignment with company objectives.
• Support achievement of business growth plans through proactive account management and customer engagement.

Market & Customer Development

• Maintain regular interactions with customers across key textile and apparel hubs such as Tiruppur, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and NCR.
• Monitor market developments, customer preferences, fashion trends, sustainability initiatives, and competitor activities.
• Identify opportunities to expand Loyal's presence within existing customer accounts and new market segments.
• Gather and share actionable market intelligence to support business planning and product development.

Product Development & Cross-Functional Coordination

• Collaborate with Knitting, Processing, PPC, Quality, Product Development, and Commercial teams to support customer requirements.
• Coordinate sample development, fabric trials, testing, approvals, and commercialization activities.
• Act as a bridge between customers and internal teams to ensure timely communication and effective execution.
• Support the introduction and commercialization of innovative and sustainable fabric solutions.

Account & Commercial Management

• Track enquiries, development projects, order status, and customer feedback.
• Support preparation of business forecasts, sales reports, and account review presentations.
• Work closely with finance and commercial teams to ensure healthy receivable management and customer account discipline.
• Contribute towards achieving business objectives related to sales, profitability, and customer satisfaction.

Preferred candidate profile

• Graduate / Diploma in Textile Technology, Textile Engineering, Fashion Technology, Apparel Management, or a related discipline.
• 3-10 years of experience in knitted fabric marketing, merchandising, sourcing, business development, or customer relationship management.
• Good understanding of knitted fabric manufacturing, dyeing, processing, garment applications, and textile supply chains.
• Exposure to working with garment exporters, brands, buying houses, or fabric sourcing organizations is preferred.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, presentation, and relationship management skills.
• Ability to coordinate effectively across customers and cross-functional teams.
• Commercial awareness with a customer-centric approach.
• Willingness to travel regularly to meet customers and support business development activities.

The role will be evaluated based on:

• Growth in knitted fabric business from existing and new customers.
• Development of sustainable customer relationships and repeat business.
• Successful conversion of development projects into commercial orders.
• Contribution towards fabric innovation and market expansion initiatives.
• Achievement of sales, margin, and collection objectives.
• Quality of customer engagement and market intelligence inputs.
• Effective coordination and execution support across internal teams.

Within the first 12 months, the individual will be expected to:

• Establish strong working relationships with key customers across major apparel hubs.
• Develop a healthy and sustainable pipeline of business opportunities.
• Successfully commercialize multiple fabric developments.
• Contribute meaningfully to revenue growth and customer diversification.
• Enhance Loyal Textile Mills' positioning as a dependable and preferred knitted fabric supplier.
• Build credibility both internally and externally as a trusted textile solutions partner.