Robert Sexton Email & Phone Number

Milton Keynes, GB

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Designer and Product Developer at Randa UK, leading gents manufacturer of leather and PU accessories and gifts.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

• Responsible for watch product development for the Marks & Spencer account and other private labels via our factories in Hong Kong.Creative and self-motivated developing products to a customer’s design brief from.
• Responsible for the trend analysis and interpretation of fashion and luxury brands.
• Analyse and review customer sales data to recognise potential sales opportunity for future product development.
• Communicate with the Far East regarding all aspects of product development.
• Build and maintain strong relationships and communication with customers, Far East suppliers and both internal and external partners. Often having to navigate language barriers and manage expectations.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge and understanding of watch designs, construction, manufacture and EU legalities.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

• Provide accurate and timely reports to enable successful growth for Fossil and the retail partner.
• Maintaining and managing customer Weekly Sales Stock Inventory forecasting documents.
• In season management of all Fossil group brands, including forecasting and refining assortments.
• Keen commercial awareness across the general watch industry and within the retail partners environment.
• Key point of contact for both buying and merchandising teams of our retail partners. I solely managed the John Lewis and Debenhams accounts and aided with both Aurum and signet. Important to maintain strong close.
• Data analysis to recognise macro and micro trends to maximise customer sales opportunities.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

• Reporting, reconciliation and analysis of figures.
• Liaising with external vendors / customers / stores.
• Producing and maintaining a store procedural bible, and creating incentive schemes.
• Being the primary contact for all 50 HoF stores, dealing with a variety of issues.
• Devised and implemented a process for loss prevention adopted across Europe.

San Diego, California

• Multi-media graphic design artist and colourist.
• General administrative maintenance of a graphic design studio.
• Communication with clients/vendors including management of invoicing system.
• National travel across the USA for exhibitions and trade fairs.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

• Maintenance of in house product insurance database system – nationwide till interaction.
• Customer / store / customer services queries – first point of contact for problem resolution.
• Manual set up and cancellation of insurance policies involving communication and negotiation with 3rd party insurance under-writers (Alliance Cornhill).
• Set up and maintenance of departmental procedural work flows.
• Advising, checking and correcting insurance details for national promotional flyers to comply with governmental Competition Commission legal guidelines.