Angela Dean (Assoc CIPD)

Merchandise Transformation Lead @ Boden

About

Experienced Business Transformation Lead, Change Manager and Trainer with expertise in merchandise planning gained through extensive experience within the retail industry in the UK, US and Canada. Skilled in Buying, Merchandising, Allocation/Distribution, Team Development, Project Management, Process Design & Improvement, Delivering Training and Business Change.

Country

United Kingdom

City

Weston Turville

Industry

Retail

Skill

Merchandising, Business Process Improvement, Training Delivery, Retail, Apparel, Merchandise Planning, Fashion, Multi-channel Retail, Textiles, Visual Merchandising, Forecasting, Project Management, Trend Analysis, Inventory Management, Retail Buying, Change Management, Global Sourcing, Product Development, Sales, Fashion Buying

Experience

Merchandise Transformation Lead

Boden

2022-9 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

London, England, United Kingdom

Part of the Merchandise Capability Improvement team & leading the training & adoption of new Stratos 5 merchandising & buying planning systems

L&D Partner (Commercial & Technology)

ASOS.com

2021-5 - 2022-9 · 1 yr 5 mos

Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, England, NW1 7DF

Retail Systems Trainer

ASOS.com

2018-11 - 2021-4 · 2 yrs 6 mos

London, United Kingdom

Part of the Truly Global Retail Programme, training the new Oracle Retail systems and other tools to the B&M teams which will enable ASOS’s exciting global expansion and market reach.

Merchandise Planning Project Manager (contract)

Jack Wills

2018-6 - 2018-10 · 5 mos

North Acton, London

Short term project to design, build, implement & train a new forecasting tool & process.

Business Change Project Manager

Mothercare PLC

2017-12 - 2018-5 · 6 mos

Watford, United Kingdom

Embedding change post go-live of Oracle RPAS through user workshops, delivering system improvements, additional reporting, further training, up-skilling of superusers and creating additional process guides.

Workstream Lead, Merchandise Transformation Programme

Mothercare PLC

2016-1 - 2017-11 · 1 yr 11 mos

Watford, United Kingdom

Workstream Lead on Planning -implementing Oracle RPAS (a merchandise financial planning system) for the Mothercare Product Divisions, Mini-Club & International Division. I was a key player in this global project working with internal functions, Cap Gemini & OLR (SI) through High Level & Detailed Design, Build, Test, Cut-over, Implementation, Business Engagement, Training Delivery & Change Management.