zoe wood

Working in a busy homewares dept within a fast paced international retailer provided me with experience in many areas. Including WSSI and product trading experience I was also responsible for range planning and forecasting, building the budgets for the coming season and managing the sign off for my own areas. Additionally I spent alot of time working on an online project enabling and developing best working practices to grow on line business and integrate into standard B&M working policy.

Working at LFC retail I was able to balance the overall merchandising offer across multi product categories including, branded apparel and accessories. Own brand apparel and souvenirs and accessories. My primary role was to manage the top line and sub department budget down to product category level. Focusing on trading current product and planning for OTB and new season strategy. Particular emphasis was placed on pushing markdown strategy and NAM benefits whilst balancing option and space planning management within the cub stores. In addition to trading the dept I spent a great deal of time setting up Merchandise reporting and range planning tools. This included ordering processes, range plans, line plans and inventory reports for WSSI output, trading reports and catagory analysis reports.

Worked as a merchandiser managing range build, budget build, trading and in season activity together with forward planning. Worked on bedding, children's, electrical & gifting

Senior buyer within indirect department. Working on service contracts focused in the soft services within the business. Time spent working closely with Senior Management Teams on sites across the UK and HR teams to bring value added service to the business in long term commercial contracts.