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Finland

Key responsibilities:- Create, manage, own & develop Helsinki DS sales growth development framework and implementation roadmap milestones for product sales, services sales, OMNI channel experience and merchant mindset culture in practice in all sales departments (home, beauty and fashion.)- Act as the project manager for Helsinki DS team related change projects impacting sales execution and future capabilities to run the business.- Identify, develop, and implement new customer driven processes, sales concepts and better ways of working to strengthen customer journey and business growth.- Build company high level sales development roadmap and plan required annual budgets with key stakeholders and manage budgets with optimal utilization.- Act as a member of Helsinki DS Management Team.

Helsinki Area, Finland

Managing teams of specialists in purchasing and design in Stockmann Design Studio. Main responsibilities:- Strategy work and implementation of the strategy- Leading category's commercial development and target setting - Managing customer centric consept development and brand building.- Leading and supporting teams of specialists to meet the set targets and oversee the in-season operational activities and marketing in all channels. - Managing the global production offices and B2B co-operation, supplier compliance and implementation of CSR targets and sustainable development.Major achievements: - Member of CSR steering group - Member of in-house-coaching team - Managed the development and launch of three new Stockmann own brands into Stockmann's brand portfolio - Leading transformation and the implementation of new processes in own responsible area

Finland

- Leading Stockmann own brand's and children's brand's buying teams and design studio. Direct reporting staff of 18 people.Main responsibilities:- Setting implementation plans for targets and priorities for the category area, supporting and developing buyers teams to meet financial goals.- Developing category supplier and assortment strategy, managing the merchandise E2E process.- Responsible for category EBIT, leading category in-season operational activities.Major achievements: - Developed new succesful tactical volume campaign for Stockmann brands. - Managed the development and launch for two new own brands into Stockmann brand portfolio. - Executed brand negotiations succesfully and renewed children's external brand portfolio. - Led organizational change in own responsible area. - The Inspirer of the year - award from the teams.

Finland

- Leading Stockmann Brands buying division- Direct reporting staff of 12 people- Main responsibilities: merchandise area strategy,sales and profitability,category management, assortment planning and pricing, marketing, supply chain development.Major achievements: - Renewed own brands processes and responsibilities in process. - Developed the own brands strategy end executed the implementation succesfully. - Launched succesfully new brand for Stockmann's own brand portfolio. - Member of the International Purchase office steering group.

Finland

- Main responsibilities: developing brand strategies and new fashion consepts. Managing assortments, vendor co-operation, planning, budgeting, pricing and production schedules. Major achievements: - Succesfully developed three new Stockmann own women's brands into Stockmann brand portfolio. - Delivered the best gross margin for a year when renewed women's lingerie brand.

Finland

- Main responsibilites: wholesale, collection development in international collection meetings, targeting of sales, planning of marketing campaigns, bringing in new customers.

Finland

- Main responsibilities: developing Vero Moda brand and assortment strategy in Finland. Budgeting the wholesale and retail purchases and selling. Wholesale and assortment planning. Purchasing and pricing the open to buy collections. Bringing in new customers, negotiations regarding new shops and shop-in-shops.Major achievements: - Managed the most important B2B customers in Finland. - Achieved the targets to bring in new customers and negotiated three new shops and shop in shops into the chain. - Main influencer in developing the collections of the brand in Finland.

Finland

- Direct reporting staff of 6 people.- Main responsibilities: store operation management. Sales and purchasing budgets,visual merchandising, selling and purchasing.Major achievements: - Leading chain's best performing brick & mortal in Finland.

Diploma In Service Design

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