Providing admin support to the business

Managed a successful franchise business delivering fully booked classes running throughout school term times over nearly 8 years, where I taught British Sign Language to babies and toddlers through song and rhyme.Implemented a wide range of marketing tools to build up my business, raise awareness and achieve the maximum annual turnover based on capacity of the classes I ran.Established an excellent social network for local families and successfully navigated the classes throughout covid and the government restrictions put in place for children's activity sessions.

IPSI inventory management for Health & Environment products involving working directly with the MD, department directors, product managers, sales, operations and overseas suppliers to manage incoming inventory to support fiscal sales targets Responsible for confirming purchase orders, managing production/shipping schedules with suppliers and achieving budget ending inventory levelsLead monthly IPSI meetings identifying key issues with regard to stock availability, gap to sales targets, and confirming new order requirementsFrequent GP and P&L analysis, influencing sales on more profitable models and customer base mix while optimising inventory levelsFiscal budget setting process, weekly and monthly sales trackingHeavily involved in new OEM projects, establishing key relationships with Chinese vendors, creating processes for stock, invoice, insurance management and documentation managementInitiated and led direct delivery process to achieve freight savings and reducing SG&A costs by around �4k/monthLead FOB project in establishing a UK function to improve product margin by 10% and achieve �220k annual cost savings while adding flexibility to schedule management. Product pricing simulations and negotiation involvement with vendors (FOB and CIF)Product management support on budget forecasts, promotional activities (e.g. PA, SOA support) and product pricing structures/set upMarket research analysis on GFK data and secondary information, SWOT analysis and identifying areas of opportunities for product categoriesInvolvement in royalty accrual and hedging calculations process

Designed and created a sophisticated MS Access database to produce numerous reports which I introduced to the business and were fully adopted for monthly review meetingsWorked in a project team to create and implement new processes in the business that were necessary to drive Hasbro UK sales and improve inventory management, and ultimately set up a new Planning teamAssisted in achieving the Hasbro UK 5% year end aged inventory target by identifying excess and obsolete stock Responsible for analysing intakes, sales forecasts and inventory levels to make commercial decisions to direct products to the most appropriate retailer baseMaking recommendations to the Managing Director quantities of stock the business should commit to given the inventory position, demand trends and stock availability/lead timesReduced the potential excess stock for 2008 by around �400k by cancelling intake plans for products showing low rates of salesManaging the air freight process and reduced air freight expenditure for 2007 by �80k and for 2008 by �100k by investigating all alternatives and strong negotiation with senior sales managersAttended monthly company forecast meeting to address availability and inventory issues and recommended changes to the company forecast Revenues Analyst, Supply Demand/Balance Team; Ofwat