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Norwich, GB

Chessington, Greater London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Overseeing the Horticulture Seeds & Bulbs and Houseplants areas. Two very fast paced departments, dependant on their seasons, with a combined annual sales of £14m.
• Responsible for the Divisional spend, recording and reviewing the weekly budget and updating the team on each categories compliance to the targets.
• WSSI and budget management to support the financial team and directorate as well as providing commentary on Sales and stock performance and targets.
• Creating bespoke deployment calculations to distribute pre-grown product swiftly, to fill planned store space and account for Trolley Building and availability.
• Assisting the Buyer during seasonal changes and range building, and travelling with the buyer to visit suppliers abroad to review stock and specify volumes.
• Maintaining strong communication with centres and suppliers to ensure any systematic or stock issues are rectified immediately.

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for merchandising aspects in the Retail Food category. Achieving £7.8m annual sales for 2017 and increasing sales by 7% from 2016 to 2017. Planning a growth of 12% for AW18.
• Maintaining stock levels and planning for promotional activity in 147 food holding centres.
• Planning seasonal activity, including Christmas and Easter ranges. Calculating distribution patterns to ensure an on time and healthy implementation.
• Assisting the Buying manager on product and commercial decisions, range building and volume planning.

London, United Kingdom

• Controlling the Home Accessories budget to allocate stock to 150+ stores.
• Creating stock deployment plans and store grading models to ensure that stock is distributed intelligently, and using sales and historical data to predict future deployment.
• Utilising a detailed knowledge of excel to develop analytical spreadsheets to assist buyers in the pre-prod decision making process.
• Compiling Monday trading reports for the directorate as well as providing up to date information on the availability of newness and tracking incoming stock.
• Creating bespoke reports to critique individual product lines or trials.
• Build strong relationships with suppliers (both UK based and abroad) to ensure that all queries are answered quickly and directly, thus maintaining a smooth flow of stock.

• Controlling a 12,700 sq ft sales floor and managing three departments; Home, Childrenswear and Menswear.
• Combating potentially stressful situations with high energy and positivity in a highly political flagship and model store.
• Engaging and deploying 23 staff members to ready the store for trade, and ensuring that stock levels are maintained, reviewed and displayed to maximise profitability whilst ensuring customer care at all times.

Responsible for everything the customer sees in the store, which is not an item of stock whist deploying visual associates to assist in completing tasks. Organise "high visuals" and "Sightlines" to guide the customer through the store. To create engaging and inspiring visual displays and mannequin clusters so that customers feel enticed to have what is on.

London, United Kingdom

• Creating visually impactful displays and departments within the store. Dressing mannequins and room sets to promote the store brand and advance sales in that area.

Provided customer service, replenished stock and created a neat and safe shopping environment for customers. Gained experience in the Children's department, Men's department, Home department, Christmas gift shop and customer service desk before moving on to a more visual role.

Bsc, Computer Games Design Animation

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