Harpal Virdee Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

- Forecasting sales and OTB management to guarantee availability on products- Management of range planning, seasonal buys phasing of intake- Monitoring sales to identify trends and opportunities- Working with buying on building strong commercial ranges- Management of pricing and margin strategy- Store roomset and ranging planning- Stock management for concession stores, Homebase and Argos- Building commercial packages for Homebase and Argos- Systems used: SAP & Business Objects

London, United Kingdom

- Managing line cards - forecasting sales and planning stock levels to achieve/exceed budgeted sales. Focusing on areas of growth to maximise sales and minimise stock risk.- Liaising closely with production planner to manage intake of stock- Analysing weekly sales to understand trends, identifying key opportunities and implementing actions on best/worst sellers- Proposing markdown plans in line with budgets; actioning following approval.- Store ranging - using sales information to build seasonal roomsets ensuring representation of bestsellers bearing creative direction in mind.- Managing allocator to ensure effective season launch and end, monitoring replenishment paremeters in-season to maximise sales- Supporting the Merchandise Manager during range sign off meetings.- Working cross functionally with the internal teams e.g. Visual, Marketing, Web to ensure full and effective implementation of seasonal strategy.- Building and testing the new merchandising sales database alongside merchandising consultants and IT- Training new members; store planners, AMs on systems and processes- Systems used: SAP & Business Objects

London, United Kingdom

- Producing weekly sales pack for merchandising team- Conducting store anaylsis, reviewing bestsellers and ensuring optimum levels of stock in appropriate stores to maximise sale sales- Highlighting high and low cover stock levels- Managing sell through on outdoor seasonal lines through monitoring sales by store, distributing stock accordingly. Highlighting high cover lines to merchandiser.- Managing dynamic selling - monitoring low stock lines enabling stores to sell into future purchase orders- Main point of contact for stores with queries on stock, pricing, product

London, United Kingdom

- Providing merchandiser with weekly sales performance, highlighting low and high cover stock lines- Raising purchase orders, chasing existing open orders- Raising allocations to stores

Reading, United Kingdom

- Implementation of promotional activity from developing POS with design agencies to distributing print to stores- Sourcing and providing brand coverage in the form of banners, promotional items and product displays for PR events- Liaising with press, providing information on key new products, distributing press packs.- Competitor bench-marking - gathering information on marketing activity and new products. Presenting findings to team with recommendations- Monitoring Columbia brand presence on customer retail websites, supporting a program to increase brand awareness in the online retail environment.

Master Of Science (Msc), Marketing Management, Merit

Marketing, Marketing communications, Marketing research, Relationship Marketing, Accounting & Business Analysis, Statistics, eBusiness.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Economics, 2:1

Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Statistics, Financial economics, Money and Banking, Labour Economics, Econometrics, Financial Accounting.