Anmol Hasinah
Birmingham,West Midands
Summary
I am writing to express my interest in the Buying role currently available at your organisation. As a UK Category Specialist at Avansas, I am excited to look for my next professional challenge.
My extensive background in Buying, coupled with my knowledge and experience of the intricacies of a supply chain makes me an ideal candidate for this role.
My strengths lie in harnessing analytical tools to assess inventory levels, track supplier performances, and optimize purchasing strategies to make informed decisions. I am adept at identifying protentional risks through analytic insight and confident in providing proactive solutions, making a meaningful contribution to the teams I work within.
I bring a wealth of experience in confidently negotiating prices and payment terms and building strong relationships with suppliers. My attention to detail and meticulous organisation skills have supported me in performing to the best of my ability and manage multiple products at once.
My current notice period is one week.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work history
UK Category Specialist
Avansas
02.2023 - Current
- Maintained supplier relationships
- Process Request for Quotations, collecting SKU data, specs, and online imagery
- Manage SKUs and supplier data setup for the UK assortment and adding them to SAP
- Pulling SAP reports and extracting information in order to make decisions.
- Manage Assortment files, ensuring all data is up to date
- Conducted ad hoc cost competitor analyses and vendor benchmarking reports, when considering new products to add to the range
- Maintained constant Warehouse communication, addressing queries, and helping to resolve any customer queries/complaints
- Update all UK cost prices every Monday and ensuring all invoices are correct and paid on time
- Suggest marketing strategies/promotions for slow sellers
- Primary contact for all suppliers, managing administrative queries
- Research current trends and new brands, overseeing end-to-end onboarding
- Negotiate pricing and payment terms
- On board new suppliers and manage the process.
Assistant Buyer
Brand Addition
09.2022 - 02.2023
- Collaborated with the in-house design and sales team to develop products from concept to delivery, ensuring seamless coordination throughout the process
- Managed the Critical Path
- Raised Purchase Orders (POs) and liaised with suppliers to address any issues promptly
- Ensured invoices are correct and paid on time
- Visit Trade Shows and carry out regular competitor analysis
- Train new starters in the business and act as a mentor if they needed support
- Build relationships with new suppliers, overseeing end-to-end onboarding
- Stayed current with market trends, consistently proposing innovative ideas to enhance product development to help sales strategies
- Ensured all new factories underwent inspections before the commencement of production, ensuring compliance with quality standards.
Buyers Clerk
Harrods
02.2022 - 09.2022
- Raised and processed Purchase Orders (POs) using SAP
- Ran daily delivery reports, whilst monitoring and coordinating shipments to ensure a smooth delivery
- Liaising with suppliers and the warehouse to ensure orders were received on time and resolving shipment issues promptly
- Produced weekly publishing updates, communicating new product arrivals and promotions to the department
- Trained new starters
- Managed RTV's
- Resolving any invoice queries, ensuring suppliers were paid on time
- Creating relevant documents for brand appointments
- Ensuring the shop floor meets brands standards and collaborating on the vision in line with Harrods' expectations
- Helped creating marketing content, created weekly updates for the business on new stock arrivals, and compiled look books
- Frequently carried out research on current trends, celebrity fashion, new brands, and completed competitor analyses.
Still Life Stylist
Net-A-Porter
09.2019 - 02.2022
- Style lay down shots that accurately depict clothing
- Be comfortable being the onset lead and managing the rest of the teams in order to ensure work is complete on time
- Shoot a minimum of 40 product shots daily
- Follow house styling guidelines
- Attend workshops and team meetings to maintain quality of images and site
- Achieve daily and weekly deadlines to prepare for uploads
- Learn on set standards and styling techniques
- Learn to use company systems to assist with job role
- Work as part of a studio team to meet deadlines and ensuring great communication
- Ensure no more than 5% of my images are reshot per week
- Responsible for own reshoots and co-ordinate as required
- Communicate workflow statuses and concerns to Team Leader and Studio Production Coordinator
- Ensure sample stock is not mis-handled
- Knowing what our top selling products are and how to style them differently
- Ensuring everything meets its launch date deadline
- Maintain an organized and ordered photo studio
- Develop strong, up-to-date knowledge of designers, brands, trends, and NET-A-PORTER editorial
- Maintain a good balance of targets and creative flair
- Send out a summary to the team of the Trading report sent through on a Monday
- Send out Top sellers to the rest of the team
- Styling homeware sets and come up with ideas on how to shoot them
- Research homeware brands that sit in line with what we sell
- Pitch potential new brands
- Suggest any improvements to help push products that are not selling that well online.
Buyers Assistant
Selfridges
04.2019 - 06.2019
- Raise purchase orders and ensuring they are 100% accurate
- Ensure prices were correct on the system and online
- Ensure data bases are correct and maintained
- Prep for Monday trade by pulling reports
- Conduct comp shops in order to stay up to date with competitors
- Communicating/building relationships with suppliers and ensuring there are no issues
- Approve shoot images ensuring the correct item of clothing is pictured correctly
- Upload brand imagery online
- Stay up to date on sample deliveries and flag anything that may be delayed
- Staying on top of stock levels and put forward suggestions of what I think needs placing in weekly meetings
- Liaising with the shop floor to ensure all the correct stock is out.
Buying Admin Assistant
Jaeger
10.2018 - 04.2019
- Raise purchase orders and ensure they are 100% accurate
- Ensuring data bases are correct and maintained
- Create mood boards of potential inspiration for future collections
- Conduct comp shops in order to stay up to date with competitors
- Communicating/building relationships with suppliers and ensuring there are no issues
- Train new BAA's
- Participate in the Range review
- Oversee post in/out
- Approve shoot images ensuring the correct item of clothing is pictured correctly
- Updating the Critical Path and flagging any issues
- Ensure all the products are organized and everything is logged
- Ensuring all samples are correct and flagging any issues
- To make sure all invoices are well organized and signed off in a timely manor by the correct member of team
- Stay up to date on sample deliveries and flag anything that may be delayed
- Present best and worst selling during Monday trade
- Ensure all invoices are delt with and paid off
- Attend fit meetings with the AB and review new samples that have arrived and to take notes to then send to the supplier.
Merchandising Admin Assistant
Charles Tyrwhitt Head Office
10.2017 - 09.2018
- Update current data bases
- Communicate with suppliers, ensuring deliveries are all on time
- Raising Purchase Orders
- Updating Critical Paths
- Analyzing how much stock needs to be ordered to meet launch expectations
- Decide if any deliveries need to be pushed forward or back depending on the products popularity
- To make sure all invoices are well organized and signed off in a timely manor by the correct member of team
- Preparing Monday Trade packs for meetings
- Staying updated on items that are selling well as well as those that are not, and working with the team to come up with solutions
- Taking part in Junior Trade meetings and going weekly analysis and reporting back to my superiors
- Present during Monday trade
- Ensure all invoices are delt with and paid off
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Fashion Communication and Styling
Middlesex University
10/2014 - 06/2017
South & City College Birmingham
09/2012 - 07/2014
GCSEs -
Bordesley Green Girls' School
09/2005 - 07/2010
Skills
- Supplier relationship management
- Competitor and market reviews
- Category development
- Team player
- Trend knowledge
- Data analysis
- Proficient in using Excel
- A strong understanding of SAP
- Confident learning new systems
Timeline
UK Category Specialist
Avansas
02.2023 - Current
Assistant Buyer
Brand Addition
09.2022 - 02.2023
Buyers Clerk
Harrods
02.2022 - 09.2022
Still Life Stylist
Net-A-Porter
09.2019 - 02.2022
Buyers Assistant
Selfridges
04.2019 - 06.2019
Buying Admin Assistant
Jaeger
10.2018 - 04.2019
Merchandising Admin Assistant
Charles Tyrwhitt Head Office
10.2017 - 09.2018
Bachelor of Arts - Fashion Communication and Styling
Middlesex University
10/2014 - 06/2017
South & City College Birmingham
09/2012 - 07/2014
GCSEs -
Bordesley Green Girls' School
09/2005 - 07/2010
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