• Pre-Auditing of factories (primarily in Turkey) prior to customer compliancy, to ensure smooth on boarding and continuation of business with the highest ethical standards prioritised.• Sourcing of new factories ensuring quality levels are met, and MOQ’s are price competitive, whilst maintaining good business and ethical standards.• Client liaison – responsible for building and maintaining relationships with buyers at all accounts and keeping them fully informed on deliveries and any issues.• A key part of this role has been costing negotiations and being able to make decisions on prices between factories and clients, always ensuring that the margin is well protected.• Liaising and managing the design team, technical team, factories, and clients. It is a role that relies on being a team player at all times.• Managing and working closely with the production and design team to ensure smooth running of the department. • Responsible for preparing all costing’s for client orders and all price negotiations with clients and factories.• Importing and exporting – responsible for ensuring all importing of Blackstone product, and all distribution to customers – liaising with all shippers, and setting up new freight forwarder accounts• Full critical path management – using technical knowledge to consult with designers in product development. Mostly dealing with overseas factories in Turkey, Portugal and Guatemala. Used my negotiation skills to achieve desirable costing’s from factories.• Responsible for all order placement with factories and ensuring accuracy at all times with production scheduling.• Licensed product – have learned the technicalities of licensing – legal implications, dealing with licensing queries and ensuring all licensor requirements are taken care of. Preparation of Royalty Report returns for licensors on a quarterly basis.

Accounts:Womenswear and Menswear - Hugo Boss, Guess, Y-3, Biba Childrenswear - Guru, Miniman • Team manager, had to ensure that all members of the team were being used efficiently and the quality of their work.• Audit preparation for customer requirements. • Organising overall production process from initial prototype to production sign off.• Helping clients with the design stage, doing research and giving advice in terms of technical, fabrics, pattern, production and also costs and scheduling. • Manage critical path up to production of sales samples and ensure design become quality product. • Deal with tech packs, and send them to factories. Ordering supplies for the design, taking control of the cost of the production and ensuring profit growth for the business• Day to day liaison with off shore factories. • Communicate with designers and factories.• Ensure data integrity, checking of codes and prices.• Manage all testing on fabric trims and lab dips.

Accounts:Childrenswear - MinimanWomenswear: DKNY, and Liz Claiborne• Speaking to the clients to ensure they are content with the development and process of the product, ordering product component supplies, taking control of the costing’s of the production and ensuring profit growth for the business. • When product design is completed and agreed, I then ordered the quantities desired to meet the customer requirements.

Work experience in a variety of different departments and roles for a company who were supplying fabric for Marks and Spencer’s and Next.