A member of the senior leadership team, with key responsibilities in driving business growth through developing and implementing a robust merchandise planning function and delivering accurate and reliable trading reports to support the company's decision-making. I have sole ownership over managing sales targets, trend forecasting, margin targets, and stock management, working closely with the buying and marketing teams to achieve our strategic goals.Responsibilities: Deliver on key KPIs: margin, sales revenue, markdown spend, and terminal stock position.Develop and implement a robust merchandising process, including a WSSI, line projections, and an OTB management tool.Set and forecast season budgets at a product category level.Lead the weekly trade meeting and attend all key executive team meetings.Analyse trading performance and communicate the drivers of trading outcomes to key stakeholders.Manage weekly OTB meetings, identifying areas of opportunity to grow sales and profitability.Support the decision-making of the business by developing key reporting tools. Build customer profiles to maximise revenue through accurate customer targeting.

I am currently an assistant merchandiser in the kidswear department with ownership of the girlswear jersey product areas, consisting of T-Shirts, Leisurewear, Activewear, Knitwear & Licensed product. My job consists of forecasting and trading for several countries including Ireland, Spain, France, Portugal, Italy & USA, allowing me to gain a great understanding of the regional differences of our customers. Responsibilities: • Plan season sales budgets at a country level and sign off with my director and board of directors.• Plan budgeted margins to achieve on my subsections, achieving this through analysis on FX rates, sourcing from GSP approved countries and maintaining a good knowledge of world fibre prices.• Manage the weekly sales, stocks and intakes system (WSSI) (€80M per Season) – ensuring budgets are achieved through stock management, identifying open to buy (OTB) and identifying opportunities in the market.• Manage the terminal stock position of my sections through in-season markdowns, stock rephrasing and transfers between countries.• Range build for all my sections with the buying and design teams.• Implementing option plans to ensure we maximise the sales per linear.• Build a competitive pricing architecture – factoring in our competitors pricing strategy.• Hold bi-weekly OTB meetings with my buying and merchandising team, presenting this back to the board on a monthly basis.• Hold weekly trade reviews with buying, design and merchandising to identify new emerging trends, markdowns, regional differences on sales and gain a better understanding of our customer.• Conduct season trading reviews and lessons learnt.• Pull ad-hoc reports for my controllers and directors to support with the overall direction of the company.• Hold developmental meetings and performance reviews with my trainee merchandiser.• Sign off our season range with the board of directors, responsible for signing of the budgets.

I previously worked as an audit senior in the International & Domestic Business Department of PwC Dublin. I have worked with a wide array of clients spanning several industries including retail, supply chain, television and broadcasting, and maintenance. I also have extensive experience working with ‘not for profit’ organisations and charities. Responsibilities:• Taking control of, and completing, all sections of the audit relevant to a Senior Associate in an effective and timely manner. Areas for which I am responsible include: cash & cash equivalents, accounts receivable, property, plant and equipment, intercompany balances, equity & share capital, VAT and PAYE, operating and prepaid expenses, payroll and revenue.• Liaising with seniors and managers on a daily basis.• Delegation of workload to subordinates• Coaching junior staff members on a day to day basis.• Attending and participating in client meetings• Problem solving with Clients in order to resolve audit issues.• Working alongside other PwC audit teams on group engagements.• Liaising with other internal departments such as taxation, actuarial and the IT controls audit teams throughout engagements. Experience gained:• Time management skills, with emphasis on multi-tasking and maintaining focus on targets and deadlines.• Excellent interpersonal skills.• Time management.• Ability to adapt to satisfy different clients varying requirements• Fluent in the Microsoft Office, Aura and My Client.

Working in the International & Domestic Business department of the Assurance section.

I completed a summer internship in the Advisory section of PwC. I gained valuable experience in PwC's Consulting and Transaction Services departments and built up a good network of business contacts. As part of my internship I played a close role in formulating tenders for potential new clients and worked closely with curent clients to implement more innovative and cost efficient processes.My responsibilities included:-Completing tenders for potential new clients.-Client research -Client analysis-client consultation Experience gained:-Computer skills including Microsoft word, excel and PowerPoint.-Enhanced research ability.-Enhanced ability to tender documents. -Insight into the operations of a variety of companies across an array of industries. -Enhanced interpersonal skills as my role required me to communicate on a daily basis with numerous clients and senior members of the PwC team.

Credit / MI Project was set up in order to improve the Bank's credit / risk reporting and to reduce the number of ad-hoc reports that were being produced. In order to do this successfully a number of new enhanced fields were added to the Banks existing pricing system.Project was successfully completed in June 2011.My responsibilities included:- Working as part of a team to gather relevant data and enter it into the enhanced system.- Liaising with Relationship Manager's to verify data and making additions / changes where necessary to bridge any data gaps.- Ensuring meetings with RM's were carried out on time and in an effective manner.- Weekly reporting of cases completed to the Project Manager.Experience gained:- Enhanced Interpersonal Skills through interacting and communicating with a vast number of experienced managers nationwide.- Well developed Team Working skills as a result of working as part of a team of 20 people.- Time Management - ability to adhere to strict deadlines.- Relationship Development. Building relationships - both within the team and with other Bank of Ireland staff throughout the country – was an integral part of the role.- Computer skills - Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SAP.

Baby Elegance is a long established family business operating within the babywear and nursery industry. The company was formed nearly three decades ago by Director Tim Costello and has grown to become one of the leading producers of babywear and nursery products throughout Ireland. The company is ever expanding and in recent years has moved into the international market. The Christmas period tends to be an extremely busy time of year for Baby Elegance, and in order satisfy the requests of their customers and clients I was employed by Baby Elegance as additional staff for the Christmas period.I was also employed by Baby Elegance over the Christmas periods for 2011 and 2009, while also lending a helping hand at times of increased business throughout the years. My responsibilities were: - completing customers’ orders (frequently under tight time frames) -delivering orders to clients-ensuring a high level of accuracy and attention to detail at all times-maintaining a strong customer service attitude in all encounters with clients-provided sales assistance at trade shows Experience gained:-customer service -sales -time management – ability to adhere to strict deadlines -prioritisation – ability to prioritise my roles to ensure I meet deadlines.

Member of the Schwartzhog promotional team. Responsibilities included - Promoting the Schwartzhog drink throughout Dublin and Ireland, - Meeting targets- Face to face interaction with customers- Provided information regarding the product and increased product awarenessThis role enhanced my communication skills and instilled in me the importance of working to the best of my ability. I can happily say that I met my targets on all occasions.

I was a member of a small team selected to promote Jagermeifter throughout Ireland. This included travelling to numerous pubs and clubs to promote the brand through social interaction, promotional deals on the product and competitions with numerous great prizes to be won. My responsibilities included;-Coordinating the members of the team-Ensuring all members were present -Meeting targets -Interaction with potential customers -Cash management Experience gained;-Developed and enhanced my sales skills-Developed and enhanced communication skills -Developed and enhanced my management of people and time-Greater understanding of event management