Jitendra Kumar Solanki

• Profit and loss accountability for the natural diamond business of the company.
• Leading and directing as Purchase and Inventory Planner to manage the product category.
• Supervising the production of diamond requirement.
• Developing and achieving Time and Action Calendars production activities.
• Reduced excess and dead inventory.
• Effectively addressed supply issues by adding strategic vendors.

Imagem Jewellers Private Limted is the market leader in manufacturing fine jewelry in India .

• Managed a procurement for buying of loose diamonds for in-house jewelry manufacturing unit.
• Launched and monitored the 'cost saving levers' in the buying of loose diamonds.
• Initiated and established strategies and channels for disposal of dead inventory.
• Negotiated and established a strategy with vendors for repairing of broken diamonds.
• Supervised, trained and motivated a team of Diamond Grader's, Assorter and Quality Controller with a team of 5 associates responsible for purchase of right goods, at the right time and at the right price.

• Identified, evaluated and developed suppliers for natural diamonds.
• Measured supplier performance, capability, and capacity in order to make appropriate sourcing decisions. Kept the information up to date. Managed supplier performance.
• Identified ‘growth, maintain, downtrend and to-be-eliminated’ vendors. Shifted business from non-strategic, under-performing suppliers to strategic partner suppliers.