Sonya Dixit

Experience

1. Buyer

   Ross Stores, Inc.

   Jan 2015 — Present

   Served as lead merchant for Furniture Division (20••••19) and Garden Division (2019-current). • Identify new product opportunities, and sourcing of new products internationally in China, India, Vietnam, and Asia leading to new factory relationships. Identified and launched new product categories. • Analyze market trends utilizing extensive competitive shopping, online research techniques, industry trade shows and market intel from supplier experts and sales data to create a strategic vision of the assortment mix maximizing sales and mitigating risks. • Manage team of Assistant Buyers effectively providing coaching opportunities to support their personal and career growth, resulting in consistent success in promoting more than 10 team members. • Set a market reputation as a tough, fair, and strong merchant with over 200+ strong vendor relationships. Built personal relationships with vendors leading to excess inventory and high margin, large volume deals. Develop strong relationships with factory owners utilizing strong and direct negotiating style regardless of lingual barriers. • Manage supply chain flow through distribution centers to stores and developed a pack away and liquidity strategy to ensure balance of assortment and open-to-buy goals are always met and the flow of orders is balanced. • Reduced markdowns on fragile product by creating packaging standards leading to high and consistent quality across vendors. • Create upfront product ideas directly with factories overseas. Design specific products to fit the needs of customer at the right cost by utilizing factory sourcing expertise. • Volunteered at company initiatives & Asian and women’s community networks and associated events.