Work history
Digital Production ManagerWGSN
Currently globally managing image production teams for WGSN in London, Mumbai and New York.
• Have managed up to 60+ staff globally at one time
• Leading expert on the company’s asset management but can easily turn my hand to any bespoke CSM and CRM system
• Fashion taxonomy and client interface expert
• Excellent time management- can work to tight and fast deadlines with multiple teams internationally
• Reliable, highly organised, accurate, proactive and enthusiastic team player, with excellent communication skills
• The ability to manage budgets and experience of working with large corporate/departmental systems and procedures
• HR administration employment contracts, status changes, reference checking, hiring, maintaining employee records, liaising with payroll monthly, redundancy, interviewing.
• Events management for WGSN content and production department and key player in the companies creative and social team which entails events organisation in and out of the office
• Proficient in using Google analytics to provide information on trending reports and client response
• Manage the Student and Graduate department- complete coverage of all shows and spotting new talent
• Training large groups of national and international staff and have been professionally trained to manage a team of any size
• Provide analytical research and fashion data derived from the Catwalk season
• Fashion data analyst and coordinator for WGSN Instock.
• Excellent presentation skills
• Providing expert knowledge to other companies on the way in which image management systems work - The British Museum
• Working and liaising with multiple departments across the whole company in order to create a user-friendly search
• Marketing strategies and campaigns
• Helped work on the project to merge the two companies WGSN and Style Sight with ease and efficiency
• Trends teams/trends researcher
Design Assistant
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• Yarn ordering, sourcing, buying, naming, prices, organizing, filing, lab dips to colour palette, choosing new yarns to suit the season
• Pricing of yarns in comparison to composition and gauge
• Sourcing trims such as fur, leather, buttons, zips, badges from the Far East
• Presentation boards: mood boards, trend boards, key detail, key shapes
• Online research, street style reports, shop reports, magazine reports
• Catwalk response and trends key details
• Amendments and alterations on garments
• Sourcing knitdowns, creating stitch designs
• Setting up showroom for clients + styling mannequins
• Booking in samples
• Communicating daily with factories in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Turkey, Romania and the UK
• Preparing costing sheets and Debit Note checks
• Shopping trips to buy inspiring garments for shape, style, knit or colour
• Can measure and draw a simple spec
• Filing and organizing all files in the office
Skills
- Presenting
- Budgeting
- Management
- Production Management
- Project Management
- Creative Management
- Strong Communication Skills Both Verbal and Written
- Time Management Multi-tasking
- CRM Management
- Management of Workflow
- Project Prod MGT
- Management of Creative Teams
- International Management
- CSM Driven Websites
- Future Design Trends
Education
Textiles-knitwear
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Knitwear BA(Hons)