Karin Lambert Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

With experience in merchandising multiple buying assortments in John Lewis I am able to identify opportunity and requirements for change in existing processes in John Lewis commercial. Make recommendations and gathering requirements to improve and enhance productivity for partners in this area. Essential is keeping an agile mindset and implementing continuous improvement to review over time as tech/system capabilities can change at pace. Developing new tools, exploring new tech or system requirements and using robotic sollutions to automate repetitive tasks. I love to work and collaborate across multiple professions and this role allows me to do this extensively.

London, England, United Kingdom

Process and subject matter expert on all buying and merchandising systems.2019 worked the development and integration of a new suite of Oracle buying systems into John Lewis.Responsible for continuous improvement on new and legacy systems, looking for the most cost effective method of implementing system change to drive productivity.Business consultant to JL Systems Teams. Flagging and eliminating risk in proposed changes before impact.RFID specialist to support the introduction of tagging garments in 2018.Process improvement specialist Electronic Data Interchange responsible for driving the uptake from suppliers and creating a smoother integration.Worked on the successful launch of a new Stock Transfer System across the retail estate.Supporting Buying and Merchandising in first and second line support to enable them to drive profitability and meet KPI’s.Work with partners in Training to identify knowledge gaps and recommend material that enable self-service resolution.Work with leadership and other stakeholders to communicate system issues and business risks.

London, England, United Kingdom

Collaborating with buying to set the strategic direction for my category responsibilities. Translating this into ranging, sales margin and inventory targets. Coaching and Developing a team of Merchandise Administrators to achieve department KPI’s.Owned complex negotiations with key industry fashion brands and cookshop market leaders to achieve success.

London, England, United Kingdom

Merchandising manager asked me to apply for this newly created role designed to focus on sales, availability and opportunity online.Integrated the new role into merchandising and established new ways of working with buying offices to deliver the online ambition.In my time in this role online sales for my categories increased £7m (+46%). This was achieved by identifying the different online customer needs and negotiating more stock commitment to improve availability.

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for complex fitted children’s shoes.Using my expertise to influence size analysis and ranging to reduce clearance spend and dormant stock which was impacting margin in this office.

London, England, United Kingdom

I was still at school when I started working at Russell & Bromley as a weekend sales assistant.I moved to Manchester to attend the Royal Northern College of Music and they encouraged me to transfer to their branch in the city. I was promoted within a few months to Children's Department Manager and held this position for four years.My team and I achieved record sales uplifts in our department year on year, winning the company Children's Cup multiple times. To achieve this I analysed sales and sell through data to negotiate additional fashion assortments from head office. I was able to justify stocking premium and higher margin brands that were only planned for the top 3 London stores. This helped me to attract new fashion led customers and to establish a strong reputation in this emerging market.I completed my degree and moved to London as Men's Department Manager of the flagship store on Oxford Street.

Bachelor Of Music Honours Degree, Music, Bachelor Of Music Honours Degree

Activities and Societies: Student Union General Secretary JudoI completed my four year Bachelor of Music Honours degree at the Royal.

Bachelor Of Music With Honours, Music Performance, General

Activities and Societies: Throughout my studies I held a management position at Russell and Bromley. I became General Secretary.

A-Levels Music, Law And Geography

13 Gcse'S A*-C