Amrita Govekar

Be actively involved in sourcing woven and knit fabrics from Asia and Europe, target costing and maintaining the quality control from fibre to finished products. Updating the fabric library, fabric technical specification and test reports database. Coordinate with product manager on achieving NFPA compliance for range of FR products and certifying finished fabrics to EN and US standards, and get Oekotex and REACH compliance met on woven and knit fabrics wherever applicable.

Key Responsibilities: Worked on new business development for supply of woven fabrics in wide range of applications which include Military Textiles, Industrial Textiles, Outdoor, Geo textiles, and Custom Fabrics. Actively involved in product development activities i.e plan, develop, evaluate and validate a product as per customer’s requirement/ market demand. Conducted market research to explore product for domestic and export business development.

Technical Sales Support Scientist - P2i Ltd Had primary responsibility of testing and approving footwear, hats, gloves, industrial fabrics, filters, and polymer composites made of woven, nonwoven, knit, leather and poly mesh materials.

- Dealing with menswear and children wear (Casual and Formal). - Handling Tie fabrics, Knits, Denims, Voiles, Printed, Solid dyed Woven fabrics (100 % Cotton, 100% Linen, 100% Polyester and Cotton and Linen blends) for buyers like Burtons, BHS, Topman, Topshop, Debhenams, Miss Selfridges, Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury, Fatface, Asos, River Island, Moss Bros and Tammy Girl.

Dealing with domestic buyers ( Big Apple, Primode Exports, Zodiac, krazy Kat etc.) and international buyers ( H and M, Trinity,etc ) in UK and US for fabric and garment orders. - Resolved fabric problems and provided continuous follow up with PPC (production planning and control) and sales team to meet lead times of fabric delivery.

Textile Materials and Performance Evaluation; Coloration ; Printing ;Yarn Production and Nonwoven Technology ; Technical Textiles ; High Performance Fibre Properties and Application in Technical Textiles; Weaving Technology ;Knitting Technology ; Dissertation