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Coalville, England, United Kingdom

Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

● Support the procurement team, delivering them insight on spend and performance to ensure they have the best negotiating tools to reduce costs and improve profitability.● Created a spend dashboard allowing the team members greater visibility for vendor ownership and spend.● Built a sales dashboard allowing each buyer to see the performance of their products.● Built relationships with some of the companies larger accounts working in a way to ensure that the customers were happy.● Analysed and identified issues with data, and where required ensuring this data is standardised.

Leicester, United Kingdom

● Created multiple tools to help the Merchandising and Procurement department work more effective and efficiently, tools such as European Price List & Cost Price Margin Impact saving the business hours of manual work in seconds.● Brought product and customer data together in one portal which had historically been very separate areas of the business.● Improved cross functional collaboration working with the Merchandising and Procurement teams to develop tools giving them greater insight and knowledge, historically these teams were working in silos.● Key subject matter expert in the introduction of new tools and platforms, including building of a master range, team categorization and SKU optimization.

Leicester, United Kingdom

● Support the Category Manager, creating a compelling range of products to promote in the B2B & B2C marketplace.● Target focused, delivering against AOP, supporting Business targets & gaining market share from competitors.● Responsible for range management, maintaining and executing on product life cycles, promoting and advertising both online and offline.● Built strong relationships with suppliers to ensure that issues were dealt with in a timely manner, as well as working with these customers to build and support us in key product area growth.● Implemented several new processes including catalogue proofing, price checking and pricing rules to improve time management and workflow in the Merchandising department leading to improvements in productivity as well as a reduction in errors.Previous roles within the business consist of Order Entry Clerk (2001), Customer Services Clerk (2001), Premier Team Associate (2002-2004) and Products Support Associate (2004-2010).