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Manchester Area, United Kingdom

• Development and execution of comprehensive buying strategies across all 8 categories in alignment with the company's goals and market trends. Ultimate responsibility for pricing and costing over 900 products across 8.
• Building product ranges, conducting commercial range reviews. Monitoring and analysing sales performance, inventory levels, and customer feedback; sell through data to optimise product development and drive sales growth.
• Conducting regular market research and competitor analysis to stay ahead of industry trends and identify potential gaps or opportunities. Attending international trade shows, expanding networks and exploring new.
• Leadership of buying team, providing guidance, mentorship, and fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture. Driving continuous improvement initiatives, identifying process efficiencies and implementing best.
• Identifying emerging trends, consumer preferences, and market opportunities to curate a compelling and profitable product assortment.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with vendors and suppliers, negotiating favorable terms and ensuring the highest quality products.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• Buying, Sourcing and Quality Assurance department lead across 8 categories of the business.
• Implementation of end-to-end best practice process.
• Development of product plans across all categories, working in line with the business calendar and key customer launch dates.
• Development and implementation of a sourcing plan to ensure all products were sourced and developed to meet with best quality and value standards.
• Management of annual budgets across both departments.
• Ongoing management and analysis of performance to ensure continuous improvement against KPI’s across the business.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Responsible for numerous product ranges of a stocked range catalogue of over 1400 products. Responsibility for $12 million per annum purchase budget plus various smaller seasonal supplements (circa $3m).
• Sales analysis and market research for UK and EU lighting market.
• Range development and maximization of profit and sales.
• Product development and sourcing process management, including partners in the Far East.
• Development and management of supplier relations, including sourcing of new suppliers and negotiation of contracts.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• responsible for the pricing and overall promotion of multiple product categories to maximize consumer appeal forging relationships with vendors and product range management, understanding consumer needs and the retail.
• Create a commercial range within my product categories
• Manage buying costs in, review & co-operate with costs out to sales and own product margin
• Prepare weekly departmental reports with views of critical stages from within the workflow
• Prepare quarterly range reviews and associated documents
• Meet product launch deadlines and product preview dates

Lancashire

Coordinating aspects of the supply chain with suppliers in Europe, Far East and India. Working closely with the design and sales teams to ensure timely and full delivery of workable product. Introduction of efficiency processes into the quality management system and supply chain. Sourcing and set up of heavyweight vinyl wallpaper factory in China. Sourced.

Responsible for the sourcing of all imported goods for the Global business from NPD to pricing, sourcing Quality and supply chain.As part of this role it was my responsibility to represent G&B globaly in the Far east with our partner factories, this involved maintaining existing relationships and forging new ones as the demand for different products grew.

Responsible for whole sourcing operation from the Far East, taking product concept stage to delivering finished product to retailers specification. Part of this role required several years residence in China, setting up a representative sourcing office in Shenzhen and Hangzhou, to aid supply chain product development and host customer meetings. i found a.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business, Marketing And Finance

A Levels

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