Experience

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  Sinclair Supply

  • Canada
  • Wholesale
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Maternity Leave

    • Sep 2019 - Oct 2020

  • Sales Analyst

    • Aug 2018 - Sep 2019

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  Intamarque Limited

  • Tewkesbury

  • Buyer

    • Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
    • Tewkesbury

    *Selecting new products and reviewing the old*Finding the right suppliers*Negotiating prices*Replenishment*Ensuring the products are delivered on time*Helping to interpret reports and predicting future sales*Pitching ideas to senior management*Stock control*Budgeting*Reacting to any changes in customer demand*Maintaining relationships with existing suppliers while seeking new ones*Attending trade events

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  Poundland & Dealz

  • Birmingham, United Kingdom

  • Buyer

    • Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
    • Birmingham, United Kingdom

    ∞ Managing and developing relationships with my suppliers and being the main account holder, ensuring I run daily reports.∞ Went on my first Buying Trip to Monte Carlo, to meet existing and new suppliers from across the globe.∞ Managing entry level admin assistants, helping them to develop and provide 1-2-1 training when required, supporting their induction effectively and booking courses.∞ Managing the directors diaries and ensuring minutes are taken during the meetings.∞ Handling incoming calls to a professional standard and managing inbound and outbound post for the biggest department.∞ Maintaining our supplies, ensuring that we have enough stocks ∞ Manage approvals/ rejections and know the implications this could have on launch dates. Critical to be organised and key is attention to detail.∞ Pitching ideas to senior management for sign offs, suggesting ways to improve our ways of working.∞ Reacting to changes in customer demand∞ Conduct competitive shop reports to identify potential threats/ opportunities in the market, updating the price matrix for departmental buying trips. ∞ Monitor shipments to ensure deliveries to store are on time.∞ Negotiate pricing and open costings∞ Chase suppliers for samples, test reports, buying samples etc.

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  Sainsbury's

  • Coventry, United Kingdom

  • Assistant Buyer

    • Mar 2014 - Aug 2016
    • Coventry, United Kingdom

    - To create category SKUs and maintain data integrity in line with company targets.- To adhere to buying milestones within the critical path to ensure on time launches and feedback as appropriate to team.- Liaise with suppliers to chase samples and key information- Support sample management as appropriate to the needs of the department- To ensure that Promotional and Pricing administration is completed efficiently and effectively on behalf of the trading team.To ensure all Point Of Sale is raised efficiently prior to sign off by the buyer.- Prepare approvals for Buyer/Junior Buyer/Assistant Buyer and send to supplier.- To provide great customer service to store colleagues through speedy and accurate issue resolution.- To carry out the accurate filing and maintenance of all required records in line with company procedures and legal guidelines, on behalf of the category.- Prepare for, attend, and take notes at meetings.- Conduct competitor shop reports and feedback to team.- Maximises learning opportunities to broaden knowledge of the Buying team’s responsibilities in order to support with queries from the wider team.- Sample organisation (if appropriate to product area).

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  PeopleLine Recruitment Ltd

  • Birmingham, United Kingdom

  • Specialist Consultant - Healthcare

    • May 2013 - Mar 2014
    • Birmingham, United Kingdom

    PeopleLine are an established dynamic recruitment and training services provider who operate both nationally and internationally. Our aim is to deliver complete, efficient, and cost effective solutions to whatever our customer requirement might be.PeopleLine do things differently. We call it matching dynamics and it's made us one of the most successful agencies within today’s markets. Even though we have state of the art recruitment software, matching people with relevant jobs is a skill that no computer can manage completely. So this is when the experience and skills of our specialist consultants comes into play.PeopleLine Healthcare Division is a successful supplier of Permanent Qualified Nursing Professionals to the private & government run medical sectors.Using sound knowledge of the current marketplace and legislation required, PeopleLine are able to source the most suitable candidates for each requirement you have, acknowledging that the person selected is as important as the time taken to fill the position.With continued success in sourcing and placing Permanent Qualified Nursing Professionals, PeopleLine can guarantee time and costs for any recruitment exercise will be reduced.Placement of permanent Qualified Nursing Professionals into the Private Health sector across the UK.Positions I recruit for include:RGNRMNRNLDSubstance Misuse/DetoxificationPaediatricTheatre/Scrub/Anaesthetics/Recovery/ODPOccupational HealthNursing Home ManagersBuilding and development of candidate and client relationshipsSourcing, registration and compliance of candidatesBusiness developmentCampaign Management

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  BT Fashions

  • Leicester, United Kingdom

  • BAA - Voluntary

    • Jun 2010 - Dec 2013
    • Leicester, United Kingdom

    Sample organsationPrepare and attend fit meetingsLiaise with suppliers for samplesTo create and manage the critical pathConducting shop reports and feedback to teamAnalysing the latest trendsCreating mood boards

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  Tights Please (Just Say Please)

  • Work Experience for Marketing and Buying

    • Mar 2012 - Aug 2012

    • To help continue building the brand, using social network sites such as, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and updating the company blog.• Updating the company website, developing new product content, updating existing web content, uploading new images. Continually, changing the web banners, to ensure promotion of new products, promotion of any sale products, to continue maximizing sale opportunities. • Managing the online image folder, ensuring they are all up-to-date and in order or preference, size, colour and price.• Focusing solely on Hosiery, and helping to develop the products.• To contribute and help with the mood boards, highlighting key trends for the upcoming seasons.• Developing strong working relationships with all creative teams• Researching current trends and collating design and trend boards to present in meetings to the entire team.• Help with the marketing campaigns, to put together the top 10 products, which were the most popular.• To carry out customer observational surveys, to gather an insight on what the customer wants, what is the most important to our customers, and to incorporate that into our lookbook.

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  BSc(Hons) Buying & Business Administration

  • Manchester, United Kingdom

  • Student

    • Sep 2009 - Jul 2012
    • Manchester, United Kingdom

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  Pertemps Professional Recruitment

  • Receptionist

    • 2010 - 2011