Lisa Dickinson Email and Phone Number

Responsible for the Beverage Category for P&0 Cruises and Cunard Cruise Line

Buyer / category manager for the protein and dairy categories. £10 million spend across 500+ skis Managing supply chain from local family businesses through to global brands.Souring / tendering and spot buying for every cruise company that sails out of the UK.

Working as a Merchandiser within Cycle Soft Goods. Key KPI to keep availability rates above budgeted levels through the season ensuring sales and GM targets are hit / exceeded.Managing supplier relationships to ensure optimised stock position / cash turnover.Managing the departmental pricing activity, ensuring margins are maximised within the confines of the companies Never Beaten On Price pricing policy, mixing stock source to margin advantage. Managing Own Brand ordering from Far East (sunglasses and bags) for the department balancing stock against lead-times, MOQ's and varying sales rate.Reviewing trade on a regular basis writing reports to present to cross company managers.Responsible for updates to WSSI - Managing stock flow into Warehouse to ensure planning time in operations to ease the flow into the business.

Lush Australia are part of Lush Cosmetics Ltd with a Manufacturing unit and stores in Australia.Managing a team of three responsible for producing the product sales and raw materials forecast on a rolling six month basis using the sales projections and trends of the Retail business.Ensuring that raw materials and packaging requirements are ordered on a just in time basis and ensuring that all suppliers meet the international Lush Buying Policy.Responsible for managing relationship with freight companies and driving freight costs down (annual spend of £1million)Responsible for management and maintenance of Material Requirement Planning system (MFG Pro) alongside management of raw material inventory levels including management of stock takes.Assisted in the launch of products with marketing, warehouse and customer service including promotional product.Key role to build relationships with local Australian suppliers to decrease the level of importing and reliance on the parent company in the UK.

Sustainable and Regenerative buying has been at the forefront of my Lush Buying career. Working in a small UK based buying team to bring design ideas to life and into 956 stores around the world.Launching 104 new gifts in 12 months, taking the creative designers first sketches and actively sourcing the materials to produce items, from recycled foil papers to r&d projects with multi use toy packaging often challenging but rewarding owing to Lush’s high ethical and environmental policies. Setting up initial project briefs for internal teams and external suppliers, attributing component parts and tracking cost against each line.Global gift buying for manufacturing sites in Canada, Japan, Croatia, Australia and the UK. Liaising with the buyers in each country to ensure global launches are achieved and that items that can be sourced locally are.Attending retail forecast meetings to keep one step ahead of the demands of the Lush stores. Buying to suit sales trends ensuring the stores have product and suppliers deliver in to the changing demands of the retail teams.Presenting gift ideas to the manufacturing side of the business - working on adaptions to keep head count down.

Responsible for buying all printed literature spanning the product label range to the in-store magazine ‘The Lush Times’ Responsible for • Labels • Lush Times • Book / Training manuals• Lush Manufacturing Corrugate boxes / sundry items• Spa retail items

External Sales Executive covering from Southampton to Weymouth. Focusing on Presentational packaging and new business.Specialising in sourcing Presentational Packaging from ChinaDeveloped strong relationships with contacts across the industry that help ensure best price, service and end product.