Adele Lee Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

• Managing the largest product category for everyday and seasonal activity within the business • Gained experience and understanding of a B2B business through detailed analytical assessment. • Lead new venture for own brand design and sourcing, opposed to selection only from supplier. Resulting in $1.5m cost saving to date, 29% sales value growth in this new brand year on year, along with gaining better ownership of design / pricing/ margin - tailoring for a national and global market.• Proactive spearheading more eco-conscious product changes within the category; paper packaging on new brand, recycled material change resulting in 24% cost reduction, product updates to reduce new tax charges.• Managing varied range of stakeholder relationships through the UK and multinational teams to achieve shared objectives.• Large product rationalisation. Allowing for much needed refresh, saving warehouse cost and space.• Involved at all stage of development, from design brief through to delivery.• Gained high level of product and competitor knowledge.• Dealing with licensed product and design, involvement in meetings directly with these clients.• Presentation skills to showcase new lines to large audience.• Dealing with difficult situations with analytical and reasonable responses to product requests.• Vital role in marketing programs, including catalogue builds, seasonal brochure, promotional activity, and collating product data to be used in sales literature and website builds.• Day to day management of over 2500 product lines.• High level of Excel and Power Point skills.• Experience gained of business reporting system Tableau Desktop, building reports for myself and other stakeholders.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

• In-depth analysis of complete party, foil, latex and dress up offering, totalling 30,000 SKUs. • Created top level presentation document for colleagues to better understand strengths of each range, acting as a guide at all business levels, bringing the numbers to life helping to make better commercial decisions, both internally and externally.• Merchandising skills enhanced with training from US Party City store Visual Merchandising Director. • Involved in specific customer analysis, giving proposals on range changes and merchandising solutions to fit the company profile, as well as an active role in implementing changes. • Developing a more rounded critical approach to guide on company improvements. • Involved in new range decisions. Implemented processes to inform colleagues for a joined-up approach, giving information previously never shared for a better sales position. • Integral role in commercial promotion process; costing through to marketing solutions.

• Project management of new launches. • Analyse commercial data to aid decisions on the largest category, Kitchens. • Creating and regularly updating product information documents to depots.• Answering daily calls from Depots; problem solving quickly on a wide range of queries.• Competitor analysis.• Routine administration duties, requiring high level of detail and organisation. • Good knowledge of K8 and SAP systems.

• After starting Card Factory as a Graduate Buying Assistant, I quickly moved to higher levels being responsible for the largest non-card category.• Responsible for sourcing, negotiation, margin, sales and stock as category manager, and constantly challenged to improve these.• Project manage every range, end to end working within target, budget and to strict timelines. • Creative role through product and range development amongst various gifting categories and product ranges.• Key contact within the business through multiple departments, including Design Studio, QC, Marketing, Supply Chain, Accounts, IT, Store Operations and creating strong relationships with all. • Analysis throughout lifecycles using EPOS driven data- seasonal reviews, weekly sales analysis of everyday.• Understand production procedures to use as an advantage on price and timelines.• Frequent travel to support direct souring, visiting and understanding factories for additional product knowledge and build strong relationships.• Building merchandising plans within strict guidelines for communication to all stores. • High level of accuracy required.• Excellent time management, prioritisation of workload and a proactive approach. • Use of AX system.• Taking on board feedback and creating valuable solutions.

• Evaluate material usage & placed large orders for raw material, running to a just in time stock system whilst achieving targets for stock values. • Built strong relationships with suppliers which helped when solving stock problems for any “ASAP” customer orders. • Given additional responsibilities to optimise use of raw materials. • Creation and upkeep of key filing systems.

Bachelor'S Degree, English Language And Literature

A-Level, Business Studies, English Language And Literature, It, Sociology