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London Area, United Kingdom

Berlin, Germany

Accountable for defining and delivering the financial KPI plan for the Beauty category, collaborating closely with the Head of Buying, ensuring our overall ambition aligns with the Zalando group strategy and adapting to changing business expectations and climate. On track to over-achieve plan for 2023, delivering double-digit sales growth and exceeding profit plan. *Lead weekly trade meetings, communicating key messages and actions to all levels of the commercial team including the Director and VP of Beauty. *Oversight of total Beauty WSSI and OTB reflecting any risk or opportunity weekly and ensuring intake is in line with forecast.*Optimised YTD stock position, reducing average stock cover by ~4 weeks vs LY whilst improving availability by ~7pp, on track to reach >90% availability for peak trading this year. Leadership of the Beauty Merchandise Planning team managing 3 direct reports and an overall team of 12. *Proven success developing a team with 4 members of the team promoted in 2023. *Lead the restructure of the Beauty team in January 2023 to reflect the commercial strategy, lead the change-management within the team including creating and implementing new processes (eg WSSI/OTB review, quarterly commercial reviews).Strengthened internal cross-functional relationships, representing Beauty in company-wide technical and strategic projects. Reviewed and updated the Beauty category-structure conducting interviews across the Beauty team to identify pain-points and whitespace, to deliver a new category tree in line with industry standards. Worked with project managers and the technical team to develop mapping logic and best-practice guides for future products category assignment to ensure ongoing validity of the structure and reporting accuracy.Cultivated strong relationships externally with key partners such as L'Oréal and Estée Lauder Companies.

Berlin, Germany

Accountable for delivering the financial KPI plan for my cluster of suppliers in collaboration with the Senior Buyer, ensuring our focuses aligned with the overall Beauty strategy.*Collaborated with external partners to drive joint strategies and business growth.*Represented Zalando externally, leading supplier meetings with key partners.*Lead commercial terms negotiation with L'Oréal, defining a 3 year plan and securing terms improvement for 2023.Leadership of 3 direct reports (Merchandiser, Junior Merchandiser, Assistant Merchandiser) in addition to strengthening the wider Merchandise Planning Job Family.*Identified knowledge gaps and training requirements in the Assistant Merchandising community, arranged knowledge and best-practice sharing sessions to support their development needs. *Actively participated in recruitment for the Merchandising team across Zalando, providing mentorship, coaching, and support to team members and peers.

London, United Kingdom

Accountable for planning and trading an extensive product portfolio, ensuring optimal performance across 5 brands in 20 markets. *Developed country-specific range plans based on in-depth product category analysis to tailor offerings to distinct consumer preferences and habits. Presenting in monthly commercial review meetings with the board of directors and company founder.*Achieved a 95% availability rate for core continuous products throughout the year, exceeding brand targets.*Coordinated global product demand for bulk componentry to ensure product availability and mitigate performance volatility.*Developed forecast tools for the global Merchandising team using Microsoft Excel and collaborated on planning demand by customer by SKU using DemandCaster planning software.Established strong cross-functional relationships within the organisation, taking the lead in integrating the Merchandising function with existing account management, supply, and operations teams.Leadership of 2 Assistant Merchandisers.

-Analysed performance and managed risk, OTB, intake and markdown for the dresses dept by forecasting the WSSIs on a fortnightly basis. -Trained and managed both of the department’s Merchandise Admin Assistants, feeding back successes and areas for development to the Senior Merchandiser.-Led critical path meetings with MAAs and buying team in order to successfully manage department intake in line with opening stock requirements and story launches. Developed and grew honest relationships with suppliers, ensuring we worked together to create solutions for late running styles.-Drove growing wholesale and international business by liaising with the international team to suggest exclusive styles for partners based on performance.-Identified the need for and developed a start-to-finish allocation manual for use by all members of the brand.

-Gathered and clearly presented information for other members of the team to use in meetings, ensuring accuracy at all times.-Managed department intake in line with targets, apprehending slippages and suggesting solutions, often working with other departments to proceed with the resolution most beneficial for the brand overall.-Accurately allocated all of the department’s intake in line with tiers and markets ordered for including wholesale and international partners. Made suggestions for changing the ranging of lines based on current department and category performance.-Led distribution meetings with merchandising team, presenting store analysis and profiling.-Built, trialled and led training on an allocation planning spreadsheet that was rolled across the brand.

Hull, United Kingdom

Helped to establish The Tab Hull in January 2013 as Deputy Editor and was promoted to Editor from September 2014, whilst successfully managing my time and prioritising my workload as I upheld my position whilst completing my degree. Headed weekly meetings for a team of over 30 writers and two section editors in which I commissioned articles, gave feedback, awarded 'writer of the week' and discussed our weekly and monthly team targets. Analysed daily and weekly traffic in order to forecast how to maximise hits to great success: traffic increased from under 1,000 daily page views to an average of more than 5,000.

Milan Area, Italy

-Liaised over phone and email with international lingerie and swimwear brands and independent boutiques in preparation for the magazine’s 10th anniversary edition of the “Best of Intima Awards” gala evening. -Compiled and analysed data from previous events in order to make 2014 the most successful year so far with 19 brands, over 300 nominees and 250 guests attending the event in New York.-Translated articles from French and Italian into English for publication in the American magazine.-Interviewed 50 boutiques, collated information and analysed responses to create a 2014 trend report. -Assisted the editor in choosing swimwear for SS15 shoots and assembling trends pages. -Established an ongoing internship link between The Best of Intima and The University of Hull.

London, United Kingdom

• Represented Harrods at all times, provided every customer with the same high level of bespoke service, demonstrated by exacting personal grooming standards and outfit selection. • Presented up to the minute knowledge of trends in advise to clients.• Worked towards weekly brand and womenswear targets.

London, United Kingdom

-Communicated with drivers and the transport team in order to ensure the seamless passage of up to 440 clients and VIPs between venues. -Identified possible problems that could arise from timings and resolved them in advance.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), French And Italian, Upper Second Class

Activities and Societies: Language Society

Education record

A Levels - Biology (B), Chemistry (C), French (C) GCSEs - 4A*, 7A (including Maths and English), 2B