Experience

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  Paws Group

  • United Kingdom
  • Retail
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Merchandise Planning Manager

    • Jun 2021 - Jan 2023

    Main responsibilities and tasks:• Plan and optimise inventory stockholding for standard and repeat orders• Order inventory, manage inventory purchasing processes and achieveworking capital targets• Manage relationships and resolve any performance variation withsuppliers• Provide regular volume and value forecasts to supplier to driveavailability improvements• Managing supplier compliance to the company's target servicestandards as well as resolving supplier challenges that arise in a timelymanner• Managing standard cost file on a monthly basis• Stock transfer and line haul between UK and EU• Managing on-time vendor delivery at the warehouses• Collaborating with Buying, Finance, Operation and Customer Serviceteams• Creating and providing weekly reports for management (availability,inventory value, product performance, overstock)• Managing the WSSI• Product mapping and finding alternative suppliersKey achievements in the past 2 years:• Building foreacasting tool to manage inventory levels effectively, makingsure to stay with in OTB limitations. Because of this availability increased by10% and hit 95% regurarly, meanwhile overstock started to decrease.• Providing management with estimated forecasts for launch of Pawswebsite. Also updating and preparing the existing supply chain system forthe increased volume (over 100 new suppliers and 2000 SKUs).

  • In Stock Manager

    • Jul 2020 - Jun 2021

  • Buyer

    • Feb 2018 - Jul 2020

  • Purchasing Specialist

    • Sep 2015 - Feb 2018

  • Delayed order specialist and OOS orders Co-ordinator

    • Jul 2012 - Sep 2015

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  HPS Retail

  • Hungary

  • Technical Consultant / team leader

    • Apr 2009 - May 2012
    • Hungary