Kamile Lasaite
London,United Kingdom
Summary
Accomplished professional with a robust skill set in workplace mediation, leadership competence, and financial reporting. Demonstrates expertise in negotiation tactics, team motivation, and operational efficiency to drive business success. Proficient in marketing strategy, task prioritisation, and staff management, ensuring optimal budgeting and forecasting. Adept at business analytics and employee training to enhance team performance. Committed to strategic planning and customer service excellence while fostering effective communication skills. Career goals include leveraging product knowledge and team leadership to achieve organisational growth.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Supervisor
HMV
London
2024.09 - Current
- Managing team of approx. 15 members.
- Established, maintained and organized working environment for team of aprox. 15 members.
- Planning workload for daily/weekly basis.
- Dealing with customer complaints and providing great customer service on daily basis.
- Monitoring store KPIs and challenging staff to comply with benchmarks.
- Provided and created training for store staff.
- Review store budget and analyse sales trends.
- Communication with head office on stock delays and requests.
- Merchandising store promotional spaces across music, film, tech & pop culture.
- Prioritizing promotions based on trends in the market.
- Nurturing stakeholder relationships on store level.
- Managing store KPIs and supporting staff in achieving goals.
- Providing and successfully implementing training for new team members
- Recruiting and reviewing new employee applications.
- Planning employee shifts based on employment budget provided.
- Managing workload in a fast paced environment.
Technology Buyer
HMV
London
2022.03 - 2024.09
- Continuously managing and analyzing tech brand performance in stores and ecomm.
- Nurturing over 20 different kind of Stakeholder relationships within the business.
- Successfully negotiating with multiple suppliers on costs, quantities and exclusivity of products.
- Successfully negotiating promotional offer in advance, making sure the margin is kept within company standard and managing promotional calendar.
- Creating a varied range of financial performance reports across the entire technology department ranging from headphones to mobile accessories including turntables and speakers.
- Identified new vendors whilst researching competitive markets globally.
- Researching market trends for the CE sector.
- Boosted supplier relationships by negotiating contracts and terms as well as successfully nurturing relationship with the legal department.
- Forward planning based on customer consumption and tailoring technology offer accordingly.
- Streamlined inventory control with regular stock checks and updates.
- Successfully actioning price changes as a daily tasks, scheduling promotional activity & negotiating with suppliers on SOAs.
- Developed purchasing strategies to meet company objectives and goals effectively.
- Daily administrative tasks such as creating reports, updating excel sheets and providing weekly sales performance to suppliers.
- Monitored market fluctuations to make informed buying decisions.
- Nurturing relationship with the Marketing department by providing ideas for promotional campaigns, creating content for weekly email newsletters and reviewing the reach across the business for technology range.
- With keen attention to detail, reviewed vendor invoices for discrepancies.
- Assessed potential suppliers, ensuring quality and reliability.
Senior Sales Assistant/ Sales Assistant
HMV, Westfield London
Westfield London
2018.11 - 2022.03
- Staying updated on market trends across entire technology range.
- Providing exceptional customer service.
- Identifying customer expectations by offering knowledge across pop culture, clothing, music, visual and technology ranges which lead to successful sales.
- Generating customer orders.
- Processing Purchase orders in store.
- Dealing with store phone calls.
- Operating tills and handling cash and card transactions.
- Following the opening and closing procedures in store.
- Dealing with customer queries.
- Managing the store's twitter and Instagram account as well as generating content.
- Managing store events: Liaising with relevant parties about specifics of the events.
- Updating social media and customers on event information.
- Following trends to rearrange the store to promote relevant artists and other products
Business Administrator
Historic England, Northampton
Northampton
2017.06 - 2017.08
- Working with Concase system
- Managing and organizing General inbox
- Generating Letter & email responses to contractors and business entities
- Creating building plans based on incoming emails & liaising with other departments.
- Log new & amend existing planning permissions
- Nurture stakeholder relationships
Education
Bachelor of Music Marketing and Communication - Marketing
University for the creative Arts
Epsom, United Kingdom 2017.09 - 2020.06
Skills
Workplace mediation
Leadership competence
Financial reporting
Negotiation tactics
Team motivation
Operational efficiency
Task prioritization
Staff management
Budgeting and forecasting
Business Analytics
Employee training
Staff scheduling
Communication skills
Team Leadership
Product knowledge
Strategic planning
Languages
Lithuanian
Proficient (C2)
English
Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Supervisor
HMV
2024.09 - Current
Technology Buyer
HMV
2022.03 - 2024.09
Senior Sales Assistant/ Sales Assistant
HMV, Westfield London
2018.11 - 2022.03
Bachelor of Music Marketing and Communication - Marketing
University for the creative Arts
2017.09 - 2020.06
Business Administrator
Historic England, Northampton
2017.06 - 2017.08