Experience

ARKET

• Sweden
• Retail
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Store Visual Merchandising Manager

  • Apr 2019 - Present

  • Providing a customer experience and ensuring customer service levels while maximizing profitability/commercial reasoning • Leading and developing the entire store team by being a role model and inspire team to achieve goals • Ensuring quality and standards on merchandising, sales activities, store operations, campaigns, stock and follow up according to brand direction • Expanding brand awareness on fashion and home furnishing in new local market, building regular customers portfolio • Implementing home wear focuses thought-out the store, encouraging “everything has a purpose” lifestyle • Recruiting, training and developing the entire store team and follow up with individual feedback/dialogue meetings • Setting store budgets with managers and visual activities for the store together with Area manager • Overseeing new store openings and acting as a visual merchandising mentor, supporting importing equipment and product • Being a trainer for the whole Arket brand in Leadership and conducting regular training sessions for managers • Visual merchandising all product for impact and making sure all items have there commercial thought process • Analyzing of market specific trends to ensure right resource planning Show less



New Look

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Store Manager

  • Mar 2017 - Apr 2019

  Took on a red store for a well-known established company has been a challenging but very rewarding opportunity which I have been privileged to have lead. The store was not only in financial difficulty but also had low staff morale, was failing asset protection and was trading at -20% LFL. In the short time I have been there I have made big contributions in influencing a quick turnaround towards company strategy. I have not only retained all staff members but have got us trading +5% and passed the last asset protection assessment by 100%. Overseeing a system we use called ‘my schedule’ this operates staff Rota’s, clocking in and out procedures, payroll and the weekly forecasting of the business due to changes in the higher management structure. I monitor this closely on a daily basis to make sure we are not overspending on labor hours and that we are meeting daily targets whilst planning what hours are needed for processing deliveries and launching sales, promos etc. Show less



Forever 21

• United States
• Retail Apparel and Fashion
• 700 & Above Employee

• District Visual Manager for UK, Ireland & Netherlands

  • Nov 2014 - Sep 2017

  Deliver the visual merchandising strategy across all UK, Ireland & Netherland stores by providing commercial layouts, training and coaching store teams, planning and delivering store layouts and seasonal floor sets, communicating key visual updates to achieve brand guidelines, consistent visual standards and financial targets.- Covering high profile/turnover stores.- Reacting commercially and trialing new ideas to be rolled out to the rest of the business.- Creating seasonal set up strategy to deliver regional consistency.- Overseeing German stores in addition to own district. Show less

• Visual Merchandising Manager

  • Oct 2013 - Oct 2014



Forever 21

• United States
• Retail Apparel and Fashion
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Visual Manager

  • Oct 2010 - May 2013



BESTSELLER

• Denmark
• Apparel & Fashion
• 700 & Above Employee

• Field Visual Merchandiser

  • Jul 2009 - Oct 2010

• Visual Merchandiser

  • Jun 2007 - Jul 2009



Lewis's Department Store

• Liverpool, United Kingdom

• Display Team

  • Sep 2005 - Jun 2007