Thomas Lye Email & Phone Number

Carshalton, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

My role in the visual standards team was redeployed as the role was made redundant. I was moved onto the visual concepts team as a visual stylist. I currently oversee menswear fashion and homeware.Here I am developing my creative work to implement and bring to life my own conceptual spaces, establish visual dna and improve retail spaces across the Liberty department store.At present I am honing my creativity and developing my technical skills to use 3d design rendering software to design and create window campaigns for Liberty.● Interfaced with key stakeholders in buying, merchandising and retail to devise and implement visual strategy for men's fashion and homeware in accordance to buys.● Managed floor layouts of both men's fashion and homeware divisions with regular review in response to sales analysis and commercial opportunity.● Managed styling mannequins in response to commercial opportunity, seasonality and trend.● Managed end to end, soft refurb of men's fashion and homeware divisions. Choosing colours, fixtures and props.● Project managed internal and freelance teams to refresh divisions on regular basis.● Interfaced with visual concepts manger to design liberty brand window schemes.● Managed end to end visualisation, production and installation.● Use of SketchUp and Vray software to visualise window concepts,in-store activations and fixtures.● Interfaced with events and marketing and wider visual conceptsteam to style in-store areas for events and activations.

City Of London, England, United Kingdom

● Interfaced with retail division managers to execute visual standards brief.● Maintained visual standards across the floor, ensuring displays were well stocked and tidy● Supported with changing displays and rotating product weekly to keep displays fresh and invigorated● Reported to the Liberty brand manager to setup Liberty brand visual standards across each division.● Curated standards packs for wider retail teams to follow outside of working hours.

London, England, United Kingdom

● Interfaced with area management, supporting in the day-to-day running of the concession and the execution of KPIs.● Ensured the concession was operating efficiently to drive sales and manage KPIs.● Feedback strengths and opportunities of concession trade daily.● Implemented visual strategy of Trotters, ensuring displays were visually coherent with standalone store campaigns and businessstrategy.● Built confidence of sale associates through coaching and training toimprove selling skills to drive effective sales and brand credibility.

Sutton, England, United Kingdom

● Interfaced with regional management to manage the day-to-day running of the store and the execute KPIs.● Managed daily activities across the store including: Cash Desk Control, Delivery Processing and Shop Floor Management.● Effectively managed a team of 50 associates through businesscoaching to meet required expectations to fulfil their duties.● Managed out of hours projects across store (promotional pop-ups,store activations and store uplift) ensuring all relevant stakeholders were briefed on activities, contractors were inducted and safe to work and all SSOW contracts had been completed correctly.● Ensured store was compliant with SSOW and DDA audit at all times.● Key-holder responsible for opening and closing the store, knowledge in relevant evacuation procedures and health and safety of all parties within the building at all times.● Identified and coached future talent using company training programme to support individuals in their progression.