Christopher Shipp Email & Phone Number

Praed Street, London

London

• My responsiblities include the end to end merchandising of my departments, this includes: raising orders, forecasting seasons, allocating stock to stores and the trading of my departments
• Maintaining my departmental WSSIs to meet stock targets and ensuring the intake and sales run to budget, analysing them weekly to ensure I can react to any changes within my departments
• Communicating with the warehouse to aid in prioritising stock where there is requirement/business… Show more My responsiblities include the end to end merchandising of my departments, this includes: raising orders.
• Communicating with the warehouse to aid in prioritising stock where there is requirement/business strategy
• Ensuring my departmental margins are hit and keeping a high availability in all my lines, priotising the key sales lines within my departments. Keeping in mind the lines which are negatively effecting the margin and.
• Partcipation when required in business projects, to help the development of the merchandising role or to put into practice and already established project model e.g. taking the lead on a store opening from a.

Warren Street, London

I joined Gray and Osbourn at the end of September as an Assistant Merchandiser and have worked on Daywear. My responsibilities include: * Line Detail/Range Plan – Amending and updating the buy detail * Stock Management – Pricing, carry over from season to season, ensuring lines are delivered * Copy Check – Checking books, ensuring the right products are.

Oxford Circus

I have recently joined Jaeger in a temporary capacity as an Assistant Merchandiser and have worked on the Outlets and Menswear departments. My responsibilities include: * Range plans – Amending and updating the range plans * Pricing – amending the prices, increasing and decreasing where necessary * Store Allocation – proposing plans for store allocations.

Acton

• I joined Sit-up to gain more experience in core merchandising. While at Sit-up I worked on Jewellery and on Fashion. Towards the end of my time with Sit-up I was working on Accessories and Footwear within the Fashion.
• Returning stock to vendors,
• Looking for clearance events to clear through units
• Reducing cost prices so we could sell stock at lower more competitive prices
• Offloading stock we can’t sell anymore to other businesses who may have a use for it. On Fashion I helped reduce the aged stock on Accessories and Footwear from £100K to under £50K.Fashion Seasonal Gifts; I headed up.

• Responsibile for all aspects of shows and online events for silver, watches and Diamonique including;
• Inventory management
• Securing airtime
• Planning shows
• Reviewing results & budgets
• WSSI Management

• Channel planning and sales performance review with close involvement in the launch of both the ‘Beauty Channel’ and the ‘On Demand’ website. Key responsibilities:
• Planned the Beauty Channel and its weekly schedule.
• Prepared show running order, scripting the day’s products; communicating with production.
• Reviewed recorded clip eligibility for re-use
• Recorded show and product sales.

• My responsibilities included
• Creating and Sending PO’s to suppliers, working closely with suppliers to ensure deliveries were met
• Sending business critical Show Schedules and Scripts around the building so everyone knew what was coming up on air in the next few days
• Managing other members in the team as I became more senior, distributing work and liasing with planners to ensure smooth running of the planning assistants

• My responsibilities included
• Sold advertising space in the classified advertisement part of the leading building tools publication ‘Building Products’ and ‘The Landscaper’
• Created 4-5 pages every month for the including layout and adapting press releases to adhere to the classified sales word count
• Worked to strict deadlines to ensure the magazine could be sent to print on time every month

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Business Administration And Hrm

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