Ambika Kumar
Category Buyer Assistant
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolAmbika Kumar is a fashion and retail professional with eight years of experience blending creative design sensibility and commercial buying expertise, currently serving as Category Buyer Assistant for womenswear at MYER in Melbourne. With a Master's in Fashion Entrepreneurship from RMIT and a Bachelor's in Fashion/Apparel Design from NIFT, she has moved fluidly between roles in buying, retail leadership, freelance design and hospitality, giving her strong customer-facing and supply-chain awareness. She’s known for translating creative direction into sellable product—evidenced by work across brands like Piper, GRAB Denim and Seed Heritage—while also bringing social and visual design skills from freelance and graphic roles. Comfortable in fast-paced retail environments, she pairs trend intuition with practical merchandising and team leadership experience. Based in Melbourne and presenting a personal creative portfolio at artbytsbg.com, she brings a multicultural perspective and a quietly artistic voice (self-described as “the short brown girl”) to commercial fashion.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Fashion/Apparel Design, Bachelor's degree, Fashion/Apparel Design at National Institute of Fashion Technology, IndiaComputer Science, 11th - 12th, Computer Science, 11th - 12th at Chennai Public School - IndiaMaster's degree, Fashion Entrepreneurship, Master's degree, Fashion Entrepreneurship at RMIT University
English, Tamil, Malayalam, HindiGithub contributions (1)
theshortbrowngirl/old-blog
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 49 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
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