Experience

Country Road Group

• Australia
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Buying & Production-Witchery & Trenery

  • Mar 2022 - Present



Country Road Group

• Australia
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Production Manager

  • May 2012 - Mar 2022

  Responsible for the production process on the brand TRENERY, overseeing women’s and men’s apparel collections and accessories division.Involved from initial option planning, design concept, sourcing and costing, factory allocation and negotiating pricing. Tendering programs with vendors, maintaining our brand values and quality. Reviewing business processes between fabric, knitwear and technical teams to streamline operations.Achieving higher sustainable attributes for the future in our Good Business Journey through responsible sourcing of raw materials, mills and factories.Managing production: ensuring on time delivery, achieving target margins, reviewing sourcing & vendor base, building opportunities within the brand.Production management of the re-launch for David Jones private label -March 2018 until June 2021.August 2017-Country Road Group Excellence Award-Trenery Team Award: outstanding performance August 2015-Country Road Group Excellence Award-Profit GainAugust 2014-Country Road Group Excellence Award : outstanding performanceSeptember 2013-Country Road Group Excellence Award: Profit Gain

• Production Co-Ordinator Menswear

  • Mar 2010 - May 2012

  Responsible for complete production process for Trenery Menswear from initial planning, costing and managing production through to on time delivery.



body by Dainy Sawatzky

• retail sales

  • Nov 2008 - Mar 2010

  Achieving sales budgets, co-ordinating store sales reports & weekly timesheets, maintaining stock levels & re-ordering where necessary.Merchandising new stock arrivals in storeDeveloping & building relationships with a loyal clientele baseStyling clients Achieving sales budgets, co-ordinating store sales reports & weekly timesheets, maintaining stock levels & re-ordering where necessary.Merchandising new stock arrivals in storeDeveloping & building relationships with a loyal clientele baseStyling clients



S&R FASHIONS

• Textile Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Production Manager for Sportsgirl account

  • May 2003 - Jan 2005

  Production manager for the Sportsgirl accountPlanning/scheduling offshore and local productionEnsuring timely delivery of product into store & monitoring strict customer timelines.Working within an account team & co-ordinating weekly meetings between product developers, quality assurance & management for all future orders & work in progress. Production manager for the Sportsgirl accountPlanning/scheduling offshore and local productionEnsuring timely delivery of product into store & monitoring strict customer timelines.Working within an account team & co-ordinating weekly meetings between product developers, quality assurance & management for all future orders & work in progress.



Globe international

• Production Manager

  • May 1998 - May 2003

  Production manager-overseeing production for Mossimo mens & womens, Stussy Mens & Womens brands.Planning/scheduling offshore and local production. This includes consolidating orders on behalf of Stussy Africa and Stussy Indonesia for offshore production. Production manager-overseeing production for Mossimo mens & womens, Stussy Mens & Womens brands.Planning/scheduling offshore and local production. This includes consolidating orders on behalf of Stussy Africa and Stussy Indonesia for offshore production.