Experience

Superbalist

• South Africa
• Retail
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Beauty Buyer

  • May 2022 - Present



Woolworths

• South Africa
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Buyer

  • Feb 2017 - May 2022

  Buyer for Branded Cosmetics. Brands include Chanel, Lancome, Clarins, Estee Lauder, Clinique, LA Prairie, Tom Ford, La Mer, Gatineau, Nuxe & Ren. Manage the seasonal procurement of the above mentioned brands and develop marketing, online and instore strategic plans to execute the seasonal product and promotional focuses. Deliver departmental growth in line with the department and group strategy with a strong focus on processes that meet and exceeds customer expectations within the agreed KPI’s. Show less

• Assistant Brand Manager

  • Jul 2013 - Jan 2017

  Assistant Brand Manager across Skin & Fragrance Brands over this period. Skin Brands (2015-2017) include Clarins, Lancome, Decleor, Vichy, Fragrance Brands (2013-2015) include Elie Saab, Issey Miyake, Burberry, Bvlgari, Hermes, etc. Deliver profitable & sustainable departmental growth by buying and effective planning a balanced and customer relevant product range according to the Group and Divisional strategy. Effective Management of customer facing availability and stock investments in line with the Group strategy and customer led processes that meets and exceeds agreed KPI’s. Show less

• Brand co-ordinator

  • Aug 2011 - Jun 2013

  To maintain, manage and implement all relevant buying data and planning required by the Woolworths process and relevant systems to achieve the critical path creating an optimal procurement plan. Delivery of the department's KPIs through on -time allocations and appropriate stock levels according to store profile, catalogue and model stocks. Assist and support the Brand Manager to deliver and implement seasonal operational plans.