Leena Isoaho

My passion is all about Retail. I'm curious of the new innovations, concepts and making things better way. My main experience areas in retail are: Home textiles, Bedding, Home Decor, Women, Men & Children Clothing and Private Labels. I have extensive experience in the purchasing, manufacturing, building concepts, category managing, chain operations and retail sales. I’m familiar working with the whole purchasing process both an International (Europe, China, India) and Domestic wholesale environment. My key strengths are ability to apply my professional skills creatively, understanding how everything influences each other and improving results by analytical mindset. My way of working is persistent, making things to happen and always customer value focused with commercial thinking and target-oriented, these are also my strengths. My work has always included handling lots of details, deadlines, problem solving and understanding the big picture. I enjoy working with concepts in Design, Textile, Fashion and Brands. In Fashion & Textile industry I'm most interested in circle economy, sustainability and all the new textile innovations and strategies which may lead towards profitable retail innovations in every channel. I have a keen interest in learning something new. Lately I have been studying Communication and Project Management at the Aalto Open University and Service Design in the web courses to improve my Project Management Skills and combining my wide experience with the new learnings. I have also attained the required level of competence to be granted Certified Project Management Associate IPMA Level D. I am excited of the all new challenges and keep my eyes open for new opportunities even they would push me from the comfort zone. As a person I am easy to work with and I'm at my happiest, when I'm working with the other people, being a co-operative and the one, who inspires the others to good results. Keywords: retail, business development, category management, supply chain, teamwork, partnership, sales, buying, customer experience, design, innovations, hometextile, lifestyle, private labels, brands, sustainablility, circle-economy, project management, fashion, omnichannel, webshop, e-commerce, sourcing, product manager, product development, IPMALevelD, international, negotiation, new learning, strategy, analytic