Shaun Wilson-Hewett Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Reading, United Kingdom

• Logistics planning and scheduling of merchandise sales on bands’ tours, liaising with clients and suppliers to organise the effective sale of merchandise• Creating budgets for projects and monitoring the variance between forecasted and actual performance • Providing input on the commercial viability of projects• Using prior experience and knowledge of the industry to help create product ranges• Forecasting stock requirements for tours• Working with the ecommerce team to ensure a cohesive range of merchandise across between the tour and online and to make the most economical use of stock• Working with the warehouse team to arrange the dispatch of stock• Employing and maintaining relationships with freelance merchandise staff• Communicating stock and pricing information to freelance staff and merchandise concessions• Representing the company at live events, liaising with concession managers, freelance staff to ensure they are working to a high standard, and liaising with clients to ensure their needs are met• Logging sales, expenses and stock movements on the company’s internal systems• Creating P&L reports for projects and providing internal and external analysis on performance

Reading, England, United Kingdom

Frimley, Camberley

- Negotiation of supplier contracts- Monitoring suppliers KPI's in line with SOP agreement- Delivery compliance- VAS (Value Added Service) co-ord- Invoice coding and approval- Point of contac for all distribution issues - delays/clearance etc- Reducing storage costs by identifying and addressing issues- Identifying cost cutting measures: freight consolidation/method and reviewing warehouse best practise

Reading, United Kingdom

Providing full tour and logistical support for internationally renowned artists such as Lou Reed, Adele, Radiohead, Stereophonics, Jack Whitehall, Bastille, Nick Cave, The Cure and James Blunt.Responsibilities:• Running worldwide tour logistics for the department, arranging and tracking shipments, preparing customs entry declarations, ordering and re-printing of stock as road sales dictate• I am solely responsible for the creation and management of the companies shipping log – a goods in/out reference tool which tracks everything that enters or leaves the premises.• Providing full, detailed stock forecasts to clients for worldwide touring cycles, including advice on product development and design• Providing full logistical tour support to clients including arranging and managing vendors, dealing with concession companies, shipping to the road and banking of funds• Daily monitoring of sales patterns and providing analytics and advice on sales trends to maximise profit• Daily reporting of sales figures to artist management and making recommendations to maximise profit• Organisation of European business travel• Assisting with budgeting, including raising POs, controlling payments and processing invoices• Event Management – Site Visits (Travelling overseas when necessary), Budget Planning, Transfers, Flights, Hotel, Offsite Activities• Interface/Point of contact with internal and external clients/customers at all levels to ensure strong working relationships• Providing high level confidential support, efficiently and effectively• Pre-empting client needs and requirements• Pro-active and complex diary management, including expenses• Assisting on confidential/sensitive board level projects• Pulling reports and compiling data – client reporting of tour cycle profitability within the date range as specified in contracts

Reading, United Kingdom

As a page planner I was the main link between the editorial and field sales teams, communicating across the board and co-ordinating the content and lay-out of some of the most widely read regional newspapers and magazines in the south of England.Responsibilities• Ensuring that plan templates for local media publications including The Reading Chronicle, Bracknell News and Slough Observer were set up correctly and on time• Pre-empted clients positional needs and requirements • Deciding on maximum pagination according to the budget forecast• Ensuring that clients who have paid for prime positions within the paper are correctly placed to generate positive response• Liaising with editorial staff and ensuring a continual release of pages to be worked on and proofed ready for publication• Liaising with advertising staff and advising what advertising space is available and managing this with the editorial process• Ensuring that all papers adhered to strict ratios for advertising against editorial content• Ensuring that all artwork for adverts was received on time and processed via the graphic design team, a proof of the artwork sent to the client to be approved, and any corrections carried out and re-proofed promptly• Ensuring that all publications were sent to press sites in time for the allocated print slot, this was vital as both regional and national press was printed at the same provider, so to overlap was not an option• Providing weekly reports on advertisement to editorial ratio figures and a detailed analysis of any anomalies• Providing weekly reports on revenue generated from in-house advertising• Budget management and readership forecasts• Monitoring competitor activity• Ownership of client accounts and advertising campaigns

Bracknell, United Kingdom

• Weekly and monthly data sends to clients around the UK• Personally responsible for 4 monthly industry magazines, 3 weekly legal magazines, 1 weekly regional newspaper, 2 daily regional newspapers and 12 weekly construction magazines• Ensuring that each of the magazines within my remit were coded to the minimum 95% accuracy rating by our coding team, checking through each of them and making the necessary amendments to boost that rating in time for client reporting• Working to tight daily, weekly and monthly deadlines• Ensuring subscriptions to the publications I was responsible for were up to date and reached the office regularly and on time• In house support and training for the home based coding team

Bracknell, United Kingdom

• Key holder, opening up and closing shop daily• Daily banking and all cash handling (till float etc.)• Ensuring the smooth running of the shop floor and supervising a team of three direct reports• Giving team briefs for daily, weekly and monthly sales targets and providing motivation and encouragement for my team• Reporting sales figures to head office• Organising and carrying out audits and stock checks• Upselling on products to maximise profit• Managing visual merchandising to ensure the shop floor was set up to company standards

Education record

3 X A Levels

History, Sociology & Performing Arts