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Gloucester, England, United Kingdom

- Driving Service Level Improvement across several Business Units and Brand Owners- Functional leadership & talent development- Co-ordination of performance improvement projects - Setting Forecasting team strategy, roles and objectives.

Gloucester, England, United Kingdom

- Winner of GB Agency "Office Person of the Year Award 2022" - nominated and won on the basis of IBP cycle implementation and broad support to commercial and sales teams for budgeting process 2022/2023.- Manage 6 FTE Direct reports (Demand Planners). Ongoing Recruit; Train and Mentor philosophy as part of role.- Demand Planning / Forecasting remit across.

• Planning and merchandise remit, including product life cycles across 5 key brands where Bounty have full licence on Vans, Diesel, Superdry, Hurley, Jeep in 60 stores nationally
• Team Managemento Responsible for 6 FTE direct reports (merchandise allocators & planners)o Training & mentoring, developing a highly capable internal, talent pool, having initially recruited the team tooo Merchandise.
• Operational Planning | Managemento Translating the budget and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, translating requirement across sales, quality, stock levels; per category and per storeo Range building & planning.
• Achievementso Achieved 3 consecutive years of business level turnover & GP growth initially need to re-establish and embed all operation processes, workflows and planningo Successfully integrated 4 separate companies.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Enjoyed being an integral part of this comfort footwear brand with 700K shoes produced annually and distributed into 38 national own-brand stores
• People Managemento Responsible for a team of 7 FTE direct reports (merchandise allocators and planners)o Developing, training and mentoring the team to make decisions with very similar remits to the above position
• Operational Managemento Preparation of annual sales budgets and forecasts, down through the merchandise hierarchyo Oversight of factory production and demand planning including material resource planning – determining.
• Achievementso Spearheaded the merger of 2 national warehouse into 1 entityo Completed a stock rationalisation programme – reducing age stock, defining exit strategies, and setting markdowns, retaining aged stock to.

• Local start up business in the health sector - FMCG, cosmetics, household across 3 storeso Managed a team of 10 planners and merchandise allocators whilst also supporting the distribution centreo Budget planning and.
• Achievementso Implemented and embedded best practice planning principles, margin management, stock cover forecasting, GP benchmarkso Launched 4 new stores in 6 months including all merchandising and planning requiredo.

• Forecasting sales trends and patterns at a product, commercial line and store level with a view towards optimising sell-out / sell-in performance, maximising fulfilment rates, and minimising redundancy
• Planning stock replenishment and logistics of an ongoing catalogue of approx. 900 niche luxury cosmetics products, and a further 100 variable seasonal products
• Managing the monthly ordering of basic stock, supporting POSM material, marketing items within purchase budgets
• Ongoing Regional / Demographic / Mall / Product Analysis, Price calculation, tracking, margin setting
• Partnering with retailers to streamline their stock ordering process, stock mix, receipt plans and models

• Merchandise Planner across numerous divisions – Truworths Man / Ginger Mary / Ladies Casualwear / Living (Decor) / Fine Jewellery & Cellular - Seasonal Range Plans (Arthur)- Inventory control (OTB / WOS cover)- Post.

Post Graduate Diploma, Entrepreneurial Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Philosophy