I am an experienced Senior Fashion Merchandiser and Buyer, with expertise gained in South African Markets and delivering quality retail and support services to the very highest professional standards. I also have excellent leadership and team motivational skills and am very well organised so all of the tasks assigned to me are invariably completed on time, within budget and to full specification: I am always doing my best to find new and better ways of enhancing service delivery standards.
I also pride myself on being able to work quickly and effectively in appraising all of the potential issues and problems that might affect any aspect of the business platform as they arise, getting to understand them as best I can and finding a solution without causing undue delay.
Working very well as I do with teams of people of varying sizes, I obviously also greatly enjoy the collaborative process: getting everyone to move as effectively as possible towards the desired objective. It gives me great satisfaction to see everything coming together at the end of the day.
I am a very good communicator and I have strong social and interpersonal skills.
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Work history
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Senior Accounts Manager Mens/Boys/Ladies/Girls FashionAvax SA
- South AfricaFull Time
• Demonstrating consistently strong market based and administrative capabilities, working with this leading South African supplier for the Legit, Mr Price and Jet brands
• Playing a key part in the preparation of budgets, successful sales strategies and profit forecasts
• Control of increasing KPI’s and PMO
• Managing a full spectrum of stock and inventory matters, ensuring availability of supplies to maximise sales and optimise overall profitability
• Identifying and building on new sales opportunities, creating cost effective supply solutions and driving increased, sustainable sales margins by way of a variety of innovative sourcing strategies
• Preparing timely and reliable reports on trading issues and sales forecasts for review by members of Executive Management and Buyers
• Working in close collaboration with Buyers to meet sales targets and profit thresholds in line with departmental strategies
• Agreeing the core framework for a balanced, marketable and profitable product range in liaison with Buyers
• Insightfully evaluating a full spectrum of market based and customer information as well as historical data and forward trends so as to develop the department’s phased plans
• Creating a range plan to optimise available space and maximise sales and profit density
• Extensive European travel to purchase seasonal ranges for all areas
• Presenting the fully structured product range for review and senior management agreement
• Continuously monitoring market activity, establishing a critical path for product development and delivery and managing stock flow through the Distribution Centre
• Negotiating commercial terms with suppliers and identifying new sources of supply on an ongoing basis
• Liaising successfully with all key internal and external stakeholders and business partners, including Suppliers and Buyers
• Responding quickly and constructively to any supply or production problems, ensuring prompt initiation of workable and resilient solutions with favourable outcomes for the supplier and buyer
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Senior Boys/Menswear BuyerRetailability
- South AfricaFull Time
• Personally responsible for three leading brands: reviewing customer buying profiles and patterns, predicting future trends and monitoring compliance with all key performance indicators
• Set sales and discount levels to as to secure optimal profitability levels
• Maintained PMO and OTB through successful stock level and management planning
• Growing and maintaining KPI
• Maintaining and developing supplier base – both locally and abroad
• Worked across departments within the Group to ensure effective and efficient completion of a series of sales projects
• Participated in promotional activities, preparing reports and sales forecasts and presenting product ranges to senior retail managers
• Developed and delivered training, mentoring and coaching programmes for junior members of staff
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Skills
- Retail Buying
- Merchandising
- Fashion Merchandising
- Trend Analysis
- Trend Research
- Production Admin
- Budget Negotiation
- Strategic Analysis
- Team Leadership
- Cost Negotiating
Education
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O LevelsHigh School
- Zululand DC, South Africa
High School Education with distinction in language.