Experience

Enzoani
• United States
• Retail Apparel and Fashion
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Sales and Marketing Manager

  • Nov 2019 - Present

Defy Appliances
• South Africa
• Manufacturing
• 400 - 500 Employee
• Key Account Manager

  • Mar 2019 - Oct 2019


CREAM MAGENTA PTY LTD A DIVISION OF TREGER BRANDS

• PRODUCT DEVELOPER/MERCHANDISER/QA

  • Aug 2017 - Jan 2019

  - Managing orders with well-established retail chain stores. - Send requirements to the suppliers. - Ensuring that good quality items - Scarves, Ponchos, Kimonos, Tunics and Beanies are developed correctly as per briefs from customers. - Confirming and capturing packaging requirements and ensuring bulk are sent with the correct branding accessories. - Costing with local and international suppliers on trims. - Ordering trims for orders. - Ensuring all samples adhere to requirements and capturing data on findings. - Liaise with customers on a daily basis. - Regularly review garment quality standards, ensuring that these standards are documented and communicated internally and externally. - Process style quality queries to a satisfactory conclusion, in close communication with the customer’s quality audit department as well as the buying department internally and externally. - Provide technical support to suppliers as necessary. - Advising factories on fabric testing requirements with INTERTEK, SGS, and local testing houses; monitoring the outcome and assisting as to how to improve if necessary. - Monitor delivered quality standards. - Manage delivery and shipping dates closely to ensure all styles are approved in time to make shipping and delivery dates. - Liaise with overseas suppliers (India and China) on a daily basis with reports and instructions both electronically and verbal on how to proceed and/or alter styles as per the customers’ requirements. - Audit of Bulk once shipments arrived. - Manage decision making process depending on Bulk Audit outcome. - Photographing range and development samples, making it available on the share drive, labeled with corresponding numbers style numbers. - Managing factory Audits.



Bride and Co/Eurosuit

• Senior Buyer

  • Nov 2015 - 2017

  1. OVERALL DUTIES: - Responsible for planning, developing and presenting ranges of products in the below categories to sell in Eurosuit retail outlets: Suits (Men’s and Boy’s) , Shirts (Men’s and Boy’s), Belts, Shoes, Cufflinks, Ties and Bowties, Accessories (Waistcoats, Suspenders, Socks, Lapel Pins & Gifts), Hire (Men’s & Boys suits, Waistcoats, Shirts, Ties, Bowties, Cravats & Pocket Hankies) - Analyzing consumer buying patterns and predicting future trends. - Keeping up to date with market trends and reacting to changes in demand - Create and maintain buying maps. - Packaging design and approval - QA approval - Sending samples to suppliers for any new developments. - Responsible to provide info for store product training and marketing - Responsible to review products during Post Seasonal Analysis. 2. DAILY DUTIES: - Product development, research and ideas. - Ensure supply meets demand. - Report directly to the Merchandise Manager. - Junior Buyer report directly to me on her daily duties. 3. WEEKLY DUTIES: - Assist stores with weekly hire stock - Analyzing weekly sales reports and identifying which stores need new replenishments from the warehouse or other stores. - Plan regroups and recalls to move stock around in between stores to help increase sales with better size curves. - Managing plans for stock levels. - Writing reports and forecasting sales levels. 4. MONTHLY DUTIES: - Analyzing sales, plan replenishment buys to manage stock levels. - Follow up on deliveries, record any changes and amend the buying map. - Every 3 – 4 months assist with photo shoots. - Maintaining relationships with existing suppliers and sourcing new suppliers for future products. - Meeting with new suppliers and negotiating terms of contract. - Meeting with new and existing suppliers to discuss new and replenishment products and prices. - Doing store visits & competitor shopping - Reviewing performance indicators - Getting feedback from customers - Customer complaints



Loads of Living

• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Buyer

  • Mar 2013 - Sep 2015

  1. ADMINISTRATION - Create and maintain buying maps. - Load orders and ensure that the relevant suppliers receive their orders. 2. BUYING/PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT - Responsible for planning, developing and presenting ranges of products in the below categories to sell in Loads of Living retail outlets.  Bathroom Accessories  Bath Products  Towels & Bath Mats  Dining  Décor  Frames, Mirrors, Clocks, Wall Décor  Lighting - Attending trade fairs, in India and Germany to select new products; - Packaging design and approval - QA approval - Promo offer negotiations - Analysing consumer buying patterns and predicting future trends; - Keeping up to date with market trends and reacting to changes in demand - Maintaining relationships with existing suppliers and sourcing new suppliers for future products. - Negotiating prices with suppliers. - Doing store visits to liaise with shop personnel and customers to ensure supply meets demand and getting feedback from consumers. - Customer complaints - Customer orders - Responsible to provide info for store product training and marketing - Ensuring that products are delivered on time. - Responsible to review products during Post Seasonal Analysis. - Responsible to meet seasonal budgets - Sample sales/sample management



GUESS?, Inc.

• United States
• Construction

• Merchandiser

  • Nov 2009 - Mar 2013

  1. ADMINISTRATION - Amend information on style sheets and forward it to all parties involved. Load styles on Bustrac. 2. MERCHANDISING/PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT -Put assortment boards together with a new season’s range in my area which is Men’s and Boy’s:  T-Shirts  Polo’s  Knitwear  Woven Shirts  Sweat tops  Non-denim Jackets  Waistcoats  Non-Denim bottoms - Reworking and development of artwork to fit the needs of the Guess consumer - Handover - Compile style sheets with information regarding fabric, trims, fasteners, construction and artwork to hand over to suppliers for each style in the range - Ensure that suppliers understand style sheets to make the correct samples, as per above requirements. - Get original and proto samples back from the suppliers. Prepare the garments for line showing. Create line books/product catalogues containing our men’s & boys ranges - Line Showing - Present and sell these ranges to Guess customers - Price Confirmation – Once the range has been confirmed, prices are negotiate and confirmed before product development can start. - Product Development - Liaise with suppliers and the USA in order to develop good quality products that are up to Guess USA standards and will satisfy Guess’ customers - Send samples on a weekly basis to the USA for approval. Assortment boards have to be updated once a style has been approved. - Responsible to get salesman samples for Marketing purposes - A monthly competitor analysis has to be done. We have to go to stores and compare our Men’s and Boy’s Guess products with the competitor’s products and prices. Our findings have to be sent to the USA in the form of a report & power point presentation. - Responsible to meet annual budgets



BUSBY

• United States
• Real Estate

• Planner/Product developer

  • Apr 2007 - Nov 2009

  1. ADMINISTRATION - Load orders, - Responsible to sent orders for payment - Establishment and maintenance of a Delivery file - Make changes to orders on internal systems - Responsible to make sure orders leave on time, tracking of shipments from the supplier to the destination point. - Receipt of shipping documentation - Ordering of tickets 2. PRODUCT DEVELOPER Merchandising of: Truworths Boxer Shorts, YDE boxer shorts, Daniel Hechter Men’s Shirts, Edgars leggings, Edgars Boxer shorts, Edgars replenishment stock. - Sample development - Receive, inspect and approve all Buying, Pre-production and Bulk Samples. - Liaise with the suppliers with regards to price, production & shipping schedules and delivery dates. - Responsible to ensure that all merchandise is produced on time. - Must ensure that all suppliers advise the merchandiser on the status of each style, 1 month before delivery (ex-factory) as well as 2 weeks prior to delivery. - When bulk orders are received at the Doornfontein warehouse, the merchandiser must conduct random checks on the stock received. 3. MANAGEMENT OF STOCK - Be aware at all times of what excess stock is available in the warehouse for sale. When such stock items are available, contact the stock Buyers (e.g. Mark Saks). - Have stock samples available as well as the quantities in hand, colours available, style codes etc. - Ensure that all excess stock is sold above the landed price. Should any stock items need to be discounted, the Brand Director’s approval must be obtained. - Maintain accurate records of all cancelled stock on hand in the form of a spreadsheet, reflecting units per size. - Maintain a list of all stock items on hand that has not been allocated to any orders. - Monitor all replenishment stock in terms of stock in hand vs. actual sales achieved. The projected sales must be compared to the actual sales and a variance report must be compiled.