Plan, Run & Oversee the production and delivery for this extraordinary Australian Brand, including special projects and charity product development.

Founded and run a luxury cashmere clothing & homewares brand, specializing in natural fibres such as cashmere and for our blankets Australian Merino Wool spun and dyed in Italy. Quality, Comfort & Softness.

With 20 years of Production & International Trade experience, having worked around the world in Textiles & Fashion in various production, development, and operational roles. Business Development. Role was to identify and assist in the developing and overseeing the long term business & production strategies of a Brand. Delivering customized business solutions that support their long term operations strategy.• Source & evaluate the most appropriate suppliers over various product sectors. Negotiating and drafting supply deals and contracts to streamline the supply chain process as well as ensure environmental & delivery compliance.• Research, procure & develop factories that heed to production critical paths to ensure on time delivery, create internal relationships to improve overall product quality standards & co-operation for orders with short lead-times, complexity, and lower production volumes.• Build & develop new sales & marketing opportunities. Oversaw website design and ecommerce growing brand awareness both online, wholesale & via tradeshows. • Addressing and resolving barriers which could impact the performance of the business assess and manage the principal risks of the Brand’s business by providing clear lines of communication, to engage and share with team members sales results, competitive practices, and delivery issues with vendors.• Financials & Forecasting. Various roles saw me preparing cash flow, budgets, cost analysis & inventory forecasts as well as managing stock control and overseeing sales and markdowns.

Source, arrange, plan and oversee the production for this luxury high end brand.This role covers many areas from liaising with vendors to build strong relationships, manage on time delivery will also seeking ways to improve processes. Working closely with fit and design to manage expectations, fit, garment changes and ensure these are communicated clearly to factories, completed and costed accordingly.Implement and manage timelines for each season, overseeing the range from sampling to shipment arrival, processing and final delivery into store. With a focus on producing a quality product, in a timely fashion that is in accordance with margin expectations.

Supported the GM with day to day operating functions keeping him informed in a timely and candid manner. Liaising with cross-divisional teams to generate and implement process improvement, achieving goals/objectives and policies established by the Board.Responsible for all planning of all offshore production activities, managing hundreds of orders each season for a mainstream fashion label. Through efficiencies and improved supplier communications, achieve significant cost reductions in freight and improved our on-time deliveries. • Customer focused, forged good working relationships with suppliers, through negotiation and co-operation achieving delivery/compliance targets• Co-ordinated Design & Sales teams to meet range deadlines, resolve issues, quality control and production KPS’s• Supplier review & assessment. Raw material sourcing and management.• Liaised with Financial Controller re operational expenses against budget, sales and gross margin opportunities, assisting with the overall financial accountability• Monitored inventory levels to plan and forecast potential division shortfalls. Managed the critical path, as well ensured that all goods developed, were produced according to the company's quality standards & cost requirements

Based in China for 5 years, setting up a wholesale and distribution supply network for various high end, luxury brands based in Australia and the US, Specialized in silk & cashmere textiles, fully fashioned knitwear, in addition to cut & sew garments. • Managed the client-supplier relationship, partnering with Client's product development team each season to determine sourcing needs• Sourcing new vendors/raw materials, negotiating directly with mills and factories globally. Raised contracts, oversaw order placement, negotiating minimums, delivery dates, co-ordinating materials to arrive on-time to the factory• Arranged all Logistics, dealing with China/overseas customs & freight• A working knowledge of Chinese helped to ensure product compliance & improved communication with factories resulting in faster response and lead times

At that time a high end Australian Made sports brand for ladies. My role was to oversee the production from source to finish, inventory, costing, scheduling and planning.

Basic Objectives & Responsibilities:• To oversee individual garment styles from design/conception through the sealing process to production and final delivery.• Jayroma is a leading UK Ladies Tailoring Supplier, manufacturing for Retailers such as Next, Debenhams, Asda, John Lewis.• Attending fit sessions, compiling production specifications covering make and labelling. • Carrying out 1st of production inspection AQLs to ensure the quality and make meets customer’s specifications, preparing and sending production packs.• Implementation of Quality Control systems such as a Critical Path, to track and monitor the sealing process.• Overseeing the testing of fabrics as per Customer Specifications & investigating where necessary areas of concern.• Creating Quality Department Manuals such as the Factory Technical Manual. In-house the compilation of Customer Specification Guidelines as well as Customer Measurement Position Tables.

Basic Objectives & Responsibilities:• To improve and maintain the quality levels of products entering the supply chain through a quality programme focused on supplier performance and buying departments.• Managing a team of ten Quality Control Operatives controlling the quality of the weekly intake ($UK8-10m) of product for the TOPSHOP/TOPMAN brands. • Liaising with London based buyers and technologists and with suppliers worldwide in response to the results of the QC checks undertaken by the team.• Responsible for the employing, training and appraising staff in a ‘pay for competencies’ environment. • Negotiating with and managing the activities of jobbers for products which fail minimum criteria. • Setting up, managing a schedule for QC activities.• Organising supplier visits and education programmes and ensuring compliance with the supplier and carrier handbooks.• Introduced a database driven logging and tracking system for sample management – increasing retrieval speed and accuracy. • Introduced tighter invoice management of consignments, sent to external processors for remedial work – reduced invoice queries and improved payments to processors.