Sorcha Lyons Email & Phone Number

Ballymun

Equipment & Seasonal

• Managed catering dairy and breakfast meats, retail chill and frozen, and central billing, with the support of a trading assistant. Covered this category for a Trading Manager on a project role.• Reporting directly into the Category Manager for chill & frozen.• Responsibilities include weekly analysis of sales, profit and margin.• Supplier management across catering and retail, terms negotiation and JBP execution.• Sourcing new suppliers, and managing their integration into the company.• Working cross functionally with sales, supply chain, operations and marketing.• Managing price, through cost price negotiations with suppliers, during times of inflation and deflation. Carrying out market reviews on price positioning.• Working closely with the promotions and sales team on retail and catering promotions, focusing on what appeals to the customer.• Managing a trading assistant, with weekly meetings, and career development conversations.

County Dublin, Ireland

• Managed catering breakfast meats and central billing.• Responsibilities included weekly analysis of sales, profit and margin, category planning and supplier negotiations.• Working with the promotions team to get the right product for the customer, at the right price.• Managing the category price comparison tracker, and feeding information back to trading managers.• Completed and successfully executed a breakfast meats range review, presented to the trading director.

County Cork, Ireland

• Managed the breaded poultry and game categories.• Responsibilities included sales, profit and margin analysis, promotional planning and executing category plans.• Worked as part of the fresh commodity meat team on commercial plan initiatives.• Maintained the fresh commodity price comparison tracker, with an outsourced company.

• Worked as a sales assistant where I took sales and dealt with returns and refunds.• Responsibilties included stock take and stock replenishment in store.

Newmarket, Dublin

• Worked full time in Blenders, as part of college professional work placement programme.• Carried out quality checks on production lines. Completed chemical and sensory analysis of incoming raw materials and final product.

Killiney

• Worked as a cashier where I took sales and dealt with returns and refunds, as well as customer complaints. • Responsibilities also included stock taking and ordering new stock.

Msc Food Business Strategy, 2.1

Bachelor Of Agricultural Science, Food Science, 2.1

Project Title: Effects of High intensity light pulses on selected functional, quality and nutritional properties of powdered infant formula.

Leaving Certificate