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Maulden, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Maternity leave cover managing a team of planners supplying both domestic and imported drinks to the On-Trade.

St Albans, United Kingdom

Led and redefined processes for a team of 12 Merchandisers buying over £10m of school wear for over 500 independent and state schools across the UK and serving 13 company owned shops and 14 school located sites.• Developed and delivered a Far East supply chain, single customs clearing house and facilitated the implementation of a Duty Deferment account with the Finance team.• Established planning and process tools for in house badge embroidery department.• Co-formulated and… Show more Led and redefined processes for a team of 12 Merchandisers buying over £10m of school wear for over 500 independent and state schools across the UK and serving 13 company owned shops and 14 school located sites.• Developed and delivered a Far East supply chain, single customs clearing house and facilitated the implementation of a Duty Deferment account with the Finance team.• Established planning and process tools for in house badge embroidery department.• Co-formulated and implemented, with directors and company solicitor, Trading Agreements with suppliers.• Implemented goods-in stock flow inbound process to streamline the inbound workload.• Utilised and shared knowledge to streamline stocktaking process reducing timing by half.• Aided, using past knowledge, IT development plans for new systems with potential suppliers.• Outlined and instructed IT reporting tools to aid company cashflow projections and more efficient ordering.• Recommended process improvements for ordering and stockholding to directors that ensured continuity of supply at the fast-expanding family school wear company. Show less

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Established and led a team of three Project Coordinators who were responsible for planning and facilitating all range reviews, merchandising process development and small building works in Homebase stores.• Re-established with stakeholders pre-Bunnings processes for WSSI and OTB in Demand Planning Team.• Facilitated with IT, a project to realise the true potential of what SAP could do for the business.• Established and implemented processes to improve data integrity across supply… Show more Established and led a team of three Project Coordinators who were responsible for planning and facilitating all range reviews, merchandising process development and small building works in Homebase stores.• Re-established with stakeholders pre-Bunnings processes for WSSI and OTB in Demand Planning Team.• Facilitated with IT, a project to realise the true potential of what SAP could do for the business.• Established and implemented processes to improve data integrity across supply chain.• Recruited and established a projects team which facilitated the planning, implementation and timescales for range reviews and small building works in Homebase and Bunnings stores.• Forged processes with critical paths for range reviews and equipment capital expenditure.• Engaged directly with Store and Area Managers to deliver consistent merchandising standards in line with the Bunnings display methods.• Planned with stakeholders, budget, critical path and implementation procedures for a complicated Lighting display equipment overhaul capital project costing £3m in 250 stores which was subsequently adopted by the rest of the Bunnings group.• Established a merchandising contractor preferred list of suppliers with key skills and rate cards.• Facilitated templates and documentation for briefing and instructing of external merchandising, equipment manufacturers and electrical contractors to deliver complex range reviews. Show less

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Re-engaged, recruited and then led, developed and coached a team of 24 Merchandisers buying and managing over £160m of stock and dramatically improving customer availability online and in over 250 stores. Rationalised and rebuilt ranges with Buyers, in-line with Good, Better, Best principles, to bring range credibility back to a very much unloved area of the business.• Formulated a strategic plan with the Trading Director and Category Manager to reset an extremely poor performing part of… Show more Re-engaged, recruited and then led, developed and coached a team of 24 Merchandisers buying and managing over £160m of stock and dramatically improving customer availability online and in over 250 stores. Rationalised and rebuilt ranges with Buyers, in-line with Good, Better, Best principles, to bring range credibility back to a very much unloved area of the business.• Formulated a strategic plan with the Trading Director and Category Manager to reset an extremely poor performing part of the business by improving stock density, £3m of price reductions and dramatic volume increase whilst improving customer availability.• Controlled a year stock buy of over £160m, with up to £50m on hand at any one time, representing over 10,000 SKU’s in 250 stores and online accounting for 20% of the company sales of £300m and gross margin of £140m.• Drastically improved in-store and online customer availability from 88% to over 97% by rebuilding supplier relationships, aiding Buyers, re-establishing team engagement and using collaborative forecasting.• Delivered improved range density and wider range in the same space for 25 stores by reducing pack sizes and introducing narrower equipment depths resulting in extra aisles.• Delivered stock turn improvements by reducing bad stock from 70% to 30% representing £5m and plans in place to improve further.• Reviewed DIY ranges to ensure they met the company strategy with limited margin erosion.• Directly imported 40% of SKU’s from Far East sources using a combination of full containers and consolidation (LCL).• Analysed historic sales and market data to ensure promotions, weather dependant and seasonal ranges were purchased in the right volumes at the right time.• Collaborated with and developed robust ranges with high profile DIY and Home brands such as P&G, Duracell, Energizer, Henkel, Bosch, Stanley Black and Decker and Saint-Gobain.• Co-wrote a module for our Commercial Academy training and development programme. Show less

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Managed stock and availability for the highest profile part of the business and seamlessly took it through several huge legislative changes whilst developing 6 excellent Merchandisers, improving customer availability and stock turn.• Introduced collaborative forecast planning with the supplier base to ensure consistent supply.• Planned and delivered demographic ranging principles for premium paint.• Improved stock quality by reviewing route to market and buying units.• Delivered… Show more Managed stock and availability for the highest profile part of the business and seamlessly took it through several huge legislative changes whilst developing 6 excellent Merchandisers, improving customer availability and stock turn.• Introduced collaborative forecast planning with the supplier base to ensure consistent supply.• Planned and delivered demographic ranging principles for premium paint.• Improved stock quality by reviewing route to market and buying units.• Delivered and maintained consistent availability across the category areas.• Collaboratively planned and delivered legislative change for paint formulations which involved replacing over 1000 products with lower solvent equivalents and introducing several lightbulb legislative changes with limited margin erosion.• Improved the efficiency of supply chain routes to store including direct, domestic dc and import consolidated or full containers. Show less

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Responsible for promotional forecasting, availability and stock planning in a complicated batch and project quantity driven category.• Vastly improved in-store availability, supplier lead times, delivery scheduling, stock turn and cash flow• Managed and communicated KPI’s regarding store forecasts, replenishment, availability, stockholding and cash flow to Category Managers and Directors• Plan, budget and monitor sales, margin and profit information and acted accordingly• Where… Show more Responsible for promotional forecasting, availability and stock planning in a complicated batch and project quantity driven category.• Vastly improved in-store availability, supplier lead times, delivery scheduling, stock turn and cash flow• Managed and communicated KPI’s regarding store forecasts, replenishment, availability, stockholding and cash flow to Category Managers and Directors• Plan, budget and monitor sales, margin and profit information and acted accordingly• Where necessary, liaised and resolved store, internal department, contractor and supplier queries within reasonable timescales• Developed, then maintained suppliers understanding of the company strategy and agree changes to be implemented Show less

London, United Kingdom

Collaborated with Buyers and suppliers to forecast, buy and transport some of the more complicated seasonally driven high-volume ranges for the business. • Controlled very seasonally or weather volatile categories where huge volumes were required during football tournaments and Christmas.• Engaged directly with suppliers and factories to plan their volumes, especially in a new growth area at the time, in water where historic sales were not a reflection of forward demand.• Managed… Show more Collaborated with Buyers and suppliers to forecast, buy and transport some of the more complicated seasonally driven high-volume ranges for the business. • Controlled very seasonally or weather volatile categories where huge volumes were required during football tournaments and Christmas.• Engaged directly with suppliers and factories to plan their volumes, especially in a new growth area at the time, in water where historic sales were not a reflection of forward demand.• Managed and implemented local business fluctuations in demand for water when there were tap water quality issues.• Instrumental in stock flow improvements in our Import Bonded Network which enabled the closure of our inefficient French site.• Collaborated with the buying team to deliver a small format Fine Wine store where volumes were measured in units rather than pallets.• Mentored and trained new starters and graduates when at Sainsbury’s within the operations area. Show less