Eva Child

* Actively sell the respective collection to wholesale clients maximizing sales of all products with both existing and new business. Working together within a team brings analytical decisions forward, for the best-planned outcome possible for the brand. * Ensure timely and successful delivery solutions according to customer needs and objectives. Liaising with freight companies and costing up shipments, to ensure margin is kept to level for the incoterm’s agreement in place with each client. *Identify new customers and key selling opportunities, to reach out and complete the setup of new partnerships. Showcase and present products to buyers in sales appointments, manage my customer accounts ensure relationships are maintained and developed, and are serviced to a high standard. *Report the progress to internal departments and business executives within Skinnydip. Maintain a very good relationship with Merchandising and Design Team to ensure any production/delivery issues are dealt with and all orders run smoothly. * Managing a critical path of over 8 international brands as well as monitoring the wholesale Shopify website, uploading products processing orders, and engaging with small boutiques stocking our products. *Raising PO’s with China, supporting the production team in the life-cycle of products. Processing invoices for my accounts and all orders and to suppliers. Creating commercial invoices and collating complaint certificates required in the shipping of certain goods.

*Analysis of what is working well across the business to push sales and advise bestsellers to the client. Pulling together weekly top 10 and new reactions from PLT. Compiling sign-off packs together, presenting them in a neat visual manner for the client to review for new orders to drive sales. * Critical path management: Systematically updating each style/order correctly in terms of dates, prices, images, and descriptions. Syncing all documents and forms in alignment with this * Developments: Working on upcoming trend projects for new products along with creating a move-on. Closely working with PLT design team on their new shapes and prints and the supplier ensuring samples arrive in time with the seasonal selling calendar. Creating mood boards, and sample overviews from archives of the bestsellers. * Order Sheets: Cooperating with the buying teams on costing and style changes. Exclusives to be negotiated with the supplier working towards sales targets and margin and print and colour to all be signed off and lap dips sealed. *Trend forecasting & Competitor analysis: Weekly market comparison across our best and worst styles and volume drivers, research from fashion shows to propose new design ideas to be put into work. *Supplier Appointments & Review Meetings: Organising the wholesale appointment diary, attending meetings reviewing shopping lists and new products. * Preparation: Monthly showroom meetings for each of the client’s category’s team. Forward-thinking of what should be shown accordingly to shopping lists, move-on, developments, and best sellers. Assisting in racking up walls and styling of the themes. *E-Commerce Imagery: Managing all the client’s imagery, sample management, and booking product shoots with the studio team.

* Garment Fitting: Throughout my time in this role except for Dec’17-March’18 there was no garment technician on the wholesale team. I took ownership of all fit comments and workbooks from the initial sample to 1st fit onwards to production sample sign-off. Involving daily liaison with the suppliers in house design team, my manager's decision, as well as the clients buying team to enquire about garment changes resulting in costing/lead time affected by this. * Daily Accuracy: Updating comments, changes, and amendments across all spreadsheets and processing sheets ready for weekly sales and delivery meetings. * Garment Knowledge: Assembling style information from suppliers/factories on each product. Ensuring it meets the guidelines of compliance by the client's manual. * Supply Chain Co-ordination: Daily delivery intake management which includes: Preparing the stock list for intake and chasing late or undelivered styles with the supplier's team. Updating processing forms on each style's delivery date if processing can be on early deliveries. Assisting throughout each day with the warehouse team for our account, managing all issues and raising concerns, changes and amendments to be made on each order. Ordering labels for each product ensuring are thoroughly accurate. * Generating Orders: Creating SKUs for every exclusive wholesale product in Akeneo. Sales and Purchase orders to be created on Sage, following through confirming each order to all suppliers. Raising amendments immediately, with dates/prices to be in line with target/margin. I have worked under intense pressure with high-volume order sheets. * Delivery Management: Fulfilling the weekly deliveries, uploading packing lists correctly on databases to the client. * Administrative Tasks: Reviewing order changes, Invoicing, Price Analysis, Sample Management.

Three days before the show I was based in the HQ working with the design and creative team. Model dressing, preparing model cards, and organising all their selected outfits. Preparation of samples and styling the looks for each model, communicating with the show hair and makeup teams. On the show day, I was based backstage, I assisted the dressers and helped with outfit alterations.

* Providing full brand knowledge to the clients, assisting with sales across Shoes, Accessories, and RTW. Managing the Valentino Boutique, completing stock audits, customer orders, and issuing repairs. Daily trade reports and weekly summarising the past week’s sales, key drivers, and drops and focuses for the forthcoming future. Trend research, comp shops, and general seasonal brand updates for clients. *Merchandising of the boutique, updating the Instagram feed, communicating with other colleagues on new pieces of interest, sourcing pieces for clients from around the store. Giving a first-class service and making everyone feel at ease in the boutique, going above and beyond to make the buying experience as enjoyable as possible.

Shadowed the Buying Assistant for 2 weeks in the head office. Attending sales meetings with the buying and merchandising teams, floor walks, and strategic talks. I completed look books for the buyers after their buying appointments, prepared material to take to meetings, and brand bibles on each designer. Trend forecasting for the upcoming shows, and product books on the sales from the combined Selfridges stores.

AW16 LFW Runway Show Assistant

Subjects Covered; Fashion Buying, Fashion Merchandising, Product Development, Supply Chain Management, Fashion Business
 Strategy, International Important Merchandising, People Management