Fabric Buyer

About Aramya

Our vision is to build some of the world's most loved fashion and lifestyle brands and enable people to express themselves. We are well-funded, with $20M raised from marquee investors like Accel, Z47, and industry veterans.

Aramya is a 100 Cr+ NMV fashion & lifestyle company backed by Accel and Z47. We're building a customer-led portfolio: Aramya (daily wear), Tavira by Aramya (festive), and WowFit by Aramya (bottom wear, launching H2 2026).

Current retail footprint: 14 stores in Bengaluru (and a few more yet to go live).

Opening next: Hyderabad and Chennai. Pune, Ahmedabad, and Mumbai in the pipeline.

Website: www.aramya.in

About the Role

You'll source, evaluate, and buy the fabrics behind Aramya's collections — working closely with design to translate creative direction into the right fabric, and with production to land on quality, cost, and timelines.

This is as much a technical role as a sourcing one: strong textile engineering fundamentals, an eye for quality, and the commercial acumen to negotiate well and cost accurately — with design sensibility layered on top.

Key responsibilities

1. Sourcing & Vendor Management

• Identify and finalise fabric, greige, and yarn suppliers, with a view toward long-term, formalised arrangements at the best possible prices

• Build and leverage a strong sourcing network; contacts in Southern India are a strong advantage

• Evaluate in-house production versus external sourcing models as the business scales

2. Technical & Textile Engineering

• Bring a working technical understanding of textile engineering — weaves, construction, fabric behavior — beyond sourcing execution alone

• Support R&D benchmarking, evaluating fabric quality, cost, and performance against market and competitor standards

• Deepen weaving and manufacturing process expertise on the job, building toward hardcore textile engineering capability over time

3. Costing & Design Liaison

• Own costing accuracy as an independent check against brand-level KPI targets

• Act as the liaison between design and sourcing, ensuring fabric choices are feasible and cost-aligned

• Operate with a degree of independence in validating cost assumptions across supplier options

Key skills & qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience in fabric sourcing, buying, or textile merchandising

• Strong technical grounding in textile engineering, not just sourcing execution

• Contacts with India mills/vendors a strong advantage

• A blend of design sensibility and technical fabric expertise, suited to the India market

• Comfortable operating at the intersection of sourcing, costing, and design

• Ownership mindset; able to function semi-independently on cost validation