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Marlow, England, United Kingdom

Marlow, England, United Kingdom

Reading, United Kingdom

• Men's Footwear Department:
• Responsible for developing and buying the Mens Footwear range. Within two seasons, I successfully turned around an underperforming key line focussed business into a profitable fashion driven department.
• Reviewed and streamlined the pricing architecture to offer a more cohesive message to the customer whilst ensuring we remained competitive. In addition the ASP (Average Selling Price) was able to be increased without.
• Dramatically reduced markdown rates from 20% to 7% after two seasons.
• Reviewed and restructured the supply base, stripping out weaker factories and introducing new suppliers as a result.
• Responsible for managing and training an Assistant Buyer and Trainee Buyer, who bought their own areas under my guidance.

London, United Kingdom

• Was responsible for the buying, planning and design of the entire LK Bennett footwear range, which accounted for 40% of company sales with a £30 million yearly turnover.
• Managed a team of five assistants including the footwear QC team.
• Gained excellent supplier contacts through sourcing premium product from an exclusively high end Italian and Spanish supply base.
• Developed an in depth knowledge of high quality tanneries, material and trim suppliers.
• Regularly attended footwear and material trade fairs (e.g. Lineapelle, Micam).
• Worked closely alongside clothing and accessories teams to ensure complete colour/trend coordination across all departments.

Weymouth

• Was responsible for the buying, planning and design of the Women’s formal footwear range and wide fit footwear range (approximate turnover of £100 million).
• Range accounted for approximately 50% of total footwear department annual turnover, 10% of company annual turnover and achieved +100% v LY sales.
• Bought 150 options every 6 weeks, due to the high stock turn requirement of the department.
• Sourced product from Vietnam, Cambodia, Brazil and Italy.
• Managed capacity planning for all major factories and reviewed on monthly basis.
• Was responsible for the management and development of a team of three assistants.

Weymouth

• Processed all orders for the department which involved negotiating cost prices and delivery dates on behalf of the Buyer.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for all adminstrative duties for the Footwear and Accessories departments.

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