Experience

Elme Living

• Australia
• Wholesale
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Buyer

  • Jan 2022 - Present



IsAlbi

• Australia
• Wholesale
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Buyer

  • Oct 2015 - Dec 2021

  • Buying of Homewares – Specialising in Artificial Flowers, Plants, Trees, Ceramic Vessels and Glass Vases.• Stock and Sales Analysis.• Trend Research.• Managing design and completion of the catalogue bi-annually, including complete data entry for the CSV and ensuring all information is correct.• Completing costings sheets from supplier quotations to placing orders with suppliers.• Liaising with shipping department and completing inspection reports.• Managing and requesting samples.• Managing sourcing and quoting ranges for major customers.• Liaising with sales department to ensure all major customers are provided correct information prior to placing orders.



Riot Art & Craft

• Australia
• Retail Art Supplies
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Promotions Manager

  • Sep 2014 - Aug 2015

  • Management of the annual Promotion Plan, developing new concepts and implementing all promotions throughout 61 stores nationally.• Weekly promotion sales analysis using business planning tools.• Weekly pre-planning and analysis against past promotions to ensure that budgets are achieved.• Communicating to stores all promotion commencements and updates. • Working with Centre Managements and Marketing Teams across all stores to ensure that all marketing opportunities are utilized to gain maximum exposure for the brand.• Supporting store staff with all enquiries regarding promotions and marketing.• Managing Social Media and Website updates and producing majority of artwork for the Facebook page.• Managing Customer Service for Social Media, this includes customer queries, complaints and feedback. • Producing all in store promotion signage for all stores nationally.• Spending time in stores to increase customer profiling and to work with store staff in ensuring that all promotions can be executed and managed affectively and that targets can be achieved.• Working with external parties to increase brand visibly through additional marketing and media avenues. • Briefing in and signing off promotional artwork that is produced by the graphics department. • Sourcing product externally for promotional campaigns.• Liaise with advertising companies and local newspapers to develop additional brand awareness.• Assist in general store support for all aspects for the business.



Fusion Retail Brands

• Australia
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Planner, Buyer & Inventory Merchandiser - Diana Ferrari

  • May 2010 - Sep 2014

  • Stock management and data entry using the computer data system AP21 & Retek.• Weekly stock to sales analysis assisted with using Class Planning and Weekly Item Planning tools.• Analysis Planner for Clearance footwear division.• Assistant to the Analysis Planner for footwear.• Produce Range Plans and Buy Plans for Clearance footwear.• Weekly sales and stock forecasting. • Present weekly, monthly, quarterly and half year post seasonal reviews for Clearance footwear.• Submitting weekly reports for management and attending weekly management progress and marketing meetings.• Weekly reporting and analysis of top and bottom line sellers.• Weekly management of stock levels and store capacities.• Producing and updating delivery schedules.• Managing deliveries of new product and regular refills into stores.• Managing stock transfers and re-groups between stores.• Managing and implementing product markdowns.• Negotiating landed costs with the Production Team to ensure strong margins across the Clearance network are achieved.• Assist in promotional development for the Clearance network. • Supporting the store staff with general enquiries regarding footwear range/s and stock control.• Complete and fill weekly customer order requests.• Web store product activation and stock level management.• Assist in web store development for the footwear division.• Working with Wholesale with stock requests and management.• Assist with Clearance stores instore display units and design concepts. • Assist with stocktakes in both stores and warehouse.



Laura Ashley

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 500 - 600 Employee

• National Retail Inventory Manager

  • Mar 2005 - May 2010

  • Stock management and data entry using the computer data system AS400. • Submitting weekly reports for management and attending weekly management progress and marketing meetings.• Weekly reporting and analysis of top and bottom line sellers.• Managing deliveries of new product and regular refills into stores.• Managing stock transfers and re-groups between stores.• Managing and implementing product markdowns.• Complete and fill weekly customer order requests.• Supporting the store staff with general enquiries regarding Homewares.• Web store product activation and stock level management.• Implementation of the Visual Merchandising providing guidelines of window and in store display instructions for all stores to execute. • Assist with stock takes in both stores and warehouse.