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Junior Merchandiser Jobs in New Delhi, Delhi, India at Apparel Resources
Title: Junior Merchandiser
Company: Apparel Resources
Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India
Company Description
Apparel Resources is a leading fashion media house offering authoritative insights into the apparel, fashion, and textile industries. Through our digital, print, social, and event platforms, we provide in-depth reporting on fashion trends, sourcing strategies, retail intelligence, sustainability, and emerging technologies. We empower brands, retailers, manufacturers, and sourcing professionals to make smarter decisions in a rapidly evolving global fashion landscape.
Role Description: Senior Manager- Buyer Relations & Industry Communications
Location: On-site | New Delhi | Full-time
Note: This position is being advertised under the designation Junior Merchandiser to attract candidates with relevant apparel and fashion industry experience. However, the primary responsibility of the role is Buyer Relations & Industry Communications, involving buyer outreach, stakeholder engagement, industry networking, relationship management, market intelligence gathering, and facilitating interactions between buyers, brands, manufacturers, and sourcing professionals across our media and event platforms.
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced apparel industry professional with strong buyer-facing experience and a deep understanding of sourcing, merchandising, retail, and manufacturing. The ideal candidate will leverage their industry knowledge and professional network to build and maintain relationships with brands, retailers, buying houses, sourcing offices, and manufacturers while supporting our conferences, exhibitions, editorial initiatives, industry surveys, and business networking platforms.
This role sits at the intersection of industry engagement, relationship management, business development support, and market intelligence. It is ideal for someone who understands the apparel value chain and enjoys interacting with senior industry professionals, identifying opportunities, and facilitating meaningful business connections.
Key Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and strengthen relationships with apparel brands, retailers, buying houses, sourcing teams, exporters, manufacturers, and industry associations
- Act as a key point of contact for buyers and industry stakeholders for conferences, exhibitions, networking initiatives, editorial projects, surveys, awards, and research activities
- Identify and engage prospective buyers and sourcing professionals for participation in industry events and business initiatives
- Facilitate business interactions and introductions between buyers and manufacturers through the company's media and event platforms
- Support buyer acquisition and retention strategies for conferences, exhibitions, and networking programmes
- Conduct outreach to sourcing heads, buying teams, category managers, merchandising leaders, and retail executives
- Gather market intelligence on sourcing trends, product categories, retail developments, supply chain challenges, and industry opportunities
- Collaborate with editorial teams by providing industry insights, buyer perspectives, market trends, and story leads
- Work closely with sales, marketing, editorial, and events teams to ensure aligned industry communication and stakeholder engagement
- Represent the company at industry events, trade fairs, conferences, networking sessions, and business meetings
- Maintain and regularly update buyer databases, stakeholder records, and relationship management pipelines
- Track engagement activities and provide periodic reports on buyer outreach, participation, and industry feedback
Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience in merchandising, sourcing, buying, product development, vendor management, business development, or related apparel industry functions
- Strong understanding of apparel manufacturing, sourcing, merchandising, retail operations, buying cycles, and supply chain processes
- Excellent communication, presentation, networking, and relationship-building skills
- Experience interacting with buyers, brands, sourcing offices, retailers, exporters, or manufacturers
- Ability to engage confidently with senior industry leaders and decision-makers
- Strong organisational, coordination, and stakeholder management abilities
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and CRM/database management tools
- Bachelor's degree in Fashion Technology, Fashion Merchandising, Apparel Production, Textile Technology, Business Management, Marketing, or a related field
Preferred Experience
- Experience working with buying houses, export houses, sourcing offices, retail brands, or apparel manufacturers
- Existing network within the apparel, textile, fashion, or retail ecosystem
- Experience in industry events, conferences, exhibitions, partnerships, client servicing, or stakeholder engagement
- Familiarity with industry research, surveys, market intelligence, and business networking initiatives
- What We Offer
- Opportunity to work with one of the fashion industry's leading media and intelligence platforms
- Direct exposure to top brands, retailers, sourcing leaders, manufacturers, and industry decision-makers
- A dynamic role spanning media, events, research, networking, and industry engagement
- Significant opportunities for professional growth, networking, and industry visibility
