Work history
Buyer’s Administration AssistantArcadia
• Working as part of a team of 8 people on the Dresses department at Miss Selfridge (35% of the company mix). Also worked on the Premium department for 8 months.
• Manage the Critical Path dates to ensure that dates are met and stock arrives on time.
• Send order confirmations to suppliers and raise purchase orders.
• Manage and note take during fit sessions.
• Chase and approve all fabric and trim approvals with Assistant Buyer and Buyer.
• Pulling rails together for meetings (including trade meetings) and ensuring all information is correct.
• Completing regular comp shops and bringing tears to my Buyer to ensure she is up to date with current trends.
• Attend development meetings with Assistant Buyer, ask for prices on all new development and negotiating these prices ahead of sign off meetings.
Merchandising Administration AssistantArcadia
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• Worked as part of the Casual Jersey and Knitwear department at Miss Selfridge within a team of 6 people.
• Provided support to the Merchandising team by analysing sales trends, monitoring deliveries and maintaining stock levels.
• Liaising with suppliers to resolve any delivery problems and to place repeat orders on best-selling lines.
• Allocating stock to stores using sales analysis to predict and plan how many of each item will sell, in what colour and size.
• Creating size ratios for new orders by using size analysis.
• Helped supervise and organise workload for an intern on a week long placement.
Skills
- Excel Advanced
- Spanish
- French
- Italian
Education
French
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French (BA, 4 years), 2:1 classification attained.