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Colchester, England, United Kingdom

Colchester, England, United Kingdom

Colchester

The e-tailer of choice for excess stock.XS Items optimises your recovery value on all types of reverse logistics including: excess stock, customer returns and redundant machinery. As one of the TOP 10 INDEPENDENT SELLERS ON EBAY, and with a growing operation on AMAZON, we offer a unique alternative to traditional salvage. Established in 2005, XS Items uses its extensive knowledge to help brand owners and retailers solve the problems associated with excess stock, customer returns and refurbished items. through our tailored solutions. We offer a bespoke, partnership, service to each individual client, having taken the time to understand their needs and expectations. XS Items tackles a traditional area of business in an innovative way. By focusing on increasing financial returns on problem stock we offer significant financial uplift to retailers, distributors, wholesalers, logistics and transport organisations. We provide an open, transparent, win-win service ensuring brand control resides with the client throughout the sales process.XS Items sits between its client and the purchaser of the goods. For all intents and purposes XS Items is the seller of the goods - although in reality we sell on behalf of the clients we represent. This set up ensures that the client's brand is removed from the point of purchase ensuring its integrity is kept in place.We offer a transparent audit trail for all of our items from the point of receipt to the point of despatch. In addition we can provide financial return statements and sales analysis.Utilising a revenue share arrangement, we ensure our objectives are aligned with our customers. By selling to the end user we achieve the best possible market price. We provide analysis on; type of product, financial return against cost or RRP, sales type and location. We have over 20 variables to provide detailed analysis of your stock.Proud winners of the 2015 Management Today/eBay Digital Small Business Power List

Bentley, United Kingdom

The company was set up to provide stock for three linked retail outlets and other selected retailers. It also produced non-branded stock for wholesale customers and an empty printer cartridge collection, testing and resale capability. In my role of business operations manager, I was responsible for:• Stock control to ensure fulfilment of orders meeting our service level standards and achieving maximum efficiency. • The training and development of sales and production teams to ensure an effective and productive workforce.• Investigation, development and refinement of techniques used at key stages in the manufacturing process.• Through continuous improvement, refining the process of empty cartridge recovery and return for re-manufacture to Comms Recycling.• Increasing the market share. • Identification of sources of used printer cartridges and creating the incentive scheme for their return to Comms Recycling, maximising the bottom line and the supply of raw material as a result of the process created.• Ensuring incentive scheme members were paid in a timely manner.• Invoicing and credit control of wholesale buyers.• Negotiation of pricing structures for all customers, including having a key responsibility where volume discounts were required.

Ipswich

A retailer of re-manufactured, compatible and OEM printer supplies alongside other stationery and computing peripherals. Whilst in the position of key account manager my responsibilities were: To grow the B2B client base. Invoice and credit control management. Developed and implemented an effective, integrated targeted marketing plan aimed at trade customers.

Education record

A Levels in: Business Studies (A), Accounting (B), Economics (C)

Education record

9 GCSE passes (A*-B), including English, Maths & Business Studies.