Mel Hawkins Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

• Broad expertise across numerous product categories including stationery, 3D greetings cards and books, bags, accessories, gift, plush, homewares, collectables, cosmetics, electronics, apparel, and interiors lines.
• Lead product development process to devise and refine concepts, source capable suppliers, ensure high quality control and deliver diverse ranges which meet every requirement from aesthetic to financial.
• Schedule and execute long-term cross-departmental critical paths for multiple brands and categories. Co-ordinate cross-team collaboration and allocate resources to manage complete product life-cycle.
• Analyse sales, monitor trends, compile forecasts, set budgets and strategise targeted growth.
• Control purchasing budgets, negotiate competitive rates, optimise margins & manage multi-currency price lists.
• Manage supplier portfolio in UK, Europe and Asia with continual relationship, performance, and efficiency evaluations.

• Demonstrated business acumen and the capability to action change through implementing departmental organisational reform.
• Excelled at improving business flow across product development and creative teams to deliver significant process efficiencies.

• Initiated and implemented cross-departmental critical paths to improve range execution to time and cost targets.
• Utilised resulting increased capacity to diversify and grow into wider categories including bespoke stationery ranges.

• Instrumental in modernising how products were conceptualised, developed, sourced, and produced.