Sam Maher Email & Phone Number

Bromborough, England, United Kingdom

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

• Experiences and Achievements:
• Developing, securing and managing new business across UK & European customer base.
• Developing and extending the Off-Price business offer across the Baird Brand Portfolio.
• Targeting Off-Price customers within the UK and oversees.
• Generating yearly budgets with weekly, monthly and quarterly updates ensuring sales and target margins are met / exceeded.
• Identifying and developing new product opportunities within the Brand Portfolio, working closely with the internal Design and relevant product teams within tight time constraints.

• Experiences and Achievements:
• Working with Offshore police forces around the world, offering custom solutions for unique end-user challenges and supplying protective, operational and tactical equipment.
• Installation of project / account management systems for new start up company, formalising reporting and tracking functions to analyse performance and ensure project's success.
• Navigating through new client’s contractural requirements and ensuring success in delivering on time and to agreed specifications.
• Mentoring and developing the team in project and account management.
• Risk and cost management for all new business, reviewing budgets, managing expenses and negotiating costs with supply base.

Bradford, United Kingdom

• Experiences and Achievements:
• Driving profitable operations by maintaining and overseeing production budgets and executing detailed cost analysis including price negotiations with all international supply base.
• Increasing order book by 50% within a two year period to £3million with sole responsibility for key retail accounts, profit and margin growth year on year. Targeting and securing prospective new business accounts.
• Exceptional pro-active relationships with clients, with first point of contact delivering superior support for entire client teams.
• Product Design research and development with client presentations and focus product meetings for trend direction and market knowledge. Collaborations with Celebrity ranges (including Fearne Cotton, Coleen Rooney.
• Consolidation of relationships with current supply base through extensive international travel to fairs (PV, Texworld, Shanghai Show) as well as sourcing and developing new opportunities through Europe (mainly Italy &.

Ellesmere Port, Wirral

• Experiences and Achievements:
• Key team member from the company’s inception with decision making at a strategic level. Progression from initial role of Fabric Technologist to Product Executive.
• Targeting and securing new business account - George at Asda with initial first order of £500k quickly resulting in first half order book of over £1million. Winning tender process for Incorporatewear.
• Leadership and mentoring of the design, fabric and sample teams. Extensive fabric sourcing with European travel to fabric fairs (PV, Texworld, Prato and Milan).
• Analysing and identifying print trends and selection of optimum fabric bases for soft product categories within Next Solos. Resulting in numerous best selling skirts with multiple repeats and season after season re-buys.
• Frequent European mill pre-production visits with customer technologist, as well as factory visits and implementation of all fabric quality control procedures.

Peterlee, County Durham

• Experiences and Achievements:
• Graduate trainee with three months secondment across Menswear division.
• Extensive travel to offshore factories (Portugal & Indonesia), fabric fairs (PV, Texworld, Pitti Uomo) and mill visits (Italy, Turkey, Indonesia, Japan & Korea). Two week secondment to a Turkish mill to further enhance.
• Five month secondment to Oporto, Portugal, creating an onsite test laboratory, ability to learn the language to communicate to factory employees.
• Implemented all systems for enhanced data recording and tracking throughout the shirt division, (UK, Portugal and Indonesia), daily problem solving, management of factory raw material receipt teams and cutting rooms.*.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Textile Design, 1St Class (Hons)

Activities and Societies: Swimming

3 A Levels, 2 As Levels (French & German) 9 Gcse'S Grade A-B Inc Maths & English