Roz Bridges

• Category Management in Home verticals - DIY, Furniture, Home Accessories and Garden • Seller management - negations, promotion planning, trading • Acquisition of new businesses onto the ebay platform

• Hired as part of the set up team for the business and delivered growth of over £2.5 million. • Responsible for over 29% of kids apparel turnover shared among 6 buyers in the formative year. • Delivered consistent year on year growth of 31% from 2013 to 2104. • Introduced and managed over 60 vendors across UK, Europe, USA, Canada and China. Constantly identifying and sourcing relevant brands, negotiating terms and on-boarding vendors. • Specialised in sourcing non-EU product from the USA, Canada and China delivering over 21% of the revenue. • Driving revenue by selecting optimum product and ensuring the offer to customer is attractive and competitive • Managed a team of Assistant Buyer and BAA’s. • Co-ordinated interviews and feedback for all admin and assistant vacancies and designed and reviewed the interview assessment process.

• Introduced the baby clothing range to Amazon for the first time. • Built a launch range encompassing over 5000 skus and over 160 brands. • Driving 120% growth YOY and doubling sku selection over 12 months. Negotiating terms, managing and negotiating with £1m+ accounts within toys. • Responsible for all forecasting, pricing, accounts, profitability/margin management. • Managing OTB of £1mm delivering lines with over 80% sell-through on Q4 pre-buys. • Prepared and chaired weekly department meeting including buying management, merchandisers, marketing, vendor operations, catalogue and customer service.

• Managed seasonal buys for diaries, calendars and annuals. • Grew selection by 110% YoY and revenue by 120% • Chaired team focus group to promote, price and merchandise on site effectively. • Forecasted and bought Harry Potter V across 7 skus, order value exceeded £5 million, with less than 10% returns. We saw a 95% sell-through in first month • Conducted an audit on payments for ‘out of print’ titles and discovered £240,000 deficit owed by one vendor

• Planning all third-party stock into depots using planning and optimization tools. • Managed all stock ordering and planned all inward goods deliveries to ensure optimum efficiency and accuracy. • Liaising with suppliers and depot personnel. • KPI management for Contract Partners as well as own customers and consistently met the 98% target.

Merchandiser (training) in national headquarters of Primark stores, Worked in the buying office. Duties include monitoring stocks and sales, graded stores, creating spreadsheets, predicting sales patterns, following stock progression from order to sales in store