Rachael Andrews
Milton Keynes,Buckinghamshire
Summary
Detail-oriented administrative professional with over nine years of experience providing comprehensive support to Buying teams and office operations. Proven track record of managing administrative tasks efficiently and working under pressure to meet strict deadlines and ever changing priorities. Strong organisational skills coupled with excellent communication skills, accurate, reliable and pro active with a strong work ethic
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Buying Administrator
Sainsbury's Argos
2018.05 - 2026.04
- Ensure smooth running of the Buying cycle by providing full administrative support to the Assistant Buyer, Buyer and Senior Buying team
- Responsible for the setup of new SKUs and updating product data
- Assist in implementing the department strategy to deliver KPI's, sales and profit targets
- Collaborate with merchandise, digital and Product Implementation teams to push key ranges and products
- Liaise between Buying teams and suppliers to manage and resolve supplier queries
- Manage and coordinate teams to ensure day to day operations and deliver consistent performance
- Have awareness of market share
- Minute taking for joint business planning meetings
- Responsible for sample management ensuring all samples are tracked, organised and available for photography
- Update and maintain the range plan, ensuring all new launches and changes are accurately reflected
- Manage internal trackers for new launches, pricing promotions and promotional activity
- Track and implement pricing promotions
- Maintain accurate pricing, product descriptions, SKU details across internal systems
- Oversee SKU integration across categories to ensure alignment with company regulations and compliance requirements
- Part of a high turnover, multi million pound revenue team managing over 1,500 SKUs
- Contribute to high-turnover category performance and supported major launches such as onboarding Sonos and Oura into the category
- Built and maintain strong working relationships with brands including Amazon, Google, Samsung, Sony and Apple
Merchandise Database Assistant
Argos
2017.02 - 2018.05
- Managed administrative tasks including pricing updates within the corporate mainframe ensuring accuracy
- Set up and maintained new SKUs and data configuration across systems
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to verify data accuracy and resolve discrepancies
- Supported the buying and merchandising teams with issues around bringing new SKUs into the business
- High level data entry with great accuracy
Retail Deputy Manager
Warehouse Fashion
2015.01 - 2017.05
- Utilising reports to generate and impact sales
- Payroll forecast, weekly payroll and rota's
- Annual reviews, disciplinaries, grievances
- Weekly paperwork including - branch stock accounting, delivery acceptance and discrepancies, stock transfers and compliance reports.
- Recruiting, inducting and training of all team members
- Arranging weekly conference calls for the area
- Visual merchandise of the store
Concession Manager
Wallis Fashion
2012.01 - 2014.01
- In joining the company helped grow the concession + 13% YOY
- Ran three successful stocktakes to company standards
- Inhouse training of staff to maximise potential
- Ensuring KPI targets were meet on a weekly basis
- Store banking
- Annual stock takes
- Managing team members
- Annual stock takes
Education
BTEC National Diploma - Beauty Therapy
Bletchley College
2004.01 - 2006.01
10 GCSE’s & 4 A Levels - undefined
Leon School and Sports College
1998.01 - 2004.01
Skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Extremely organised
- Proficient in Excel, Outlook, Word, Teams, Zoom
- Commercially aware
- Drive continuous improvements
- Effective influencing and negotiation
- Engaging relevant internal and external stakeholders
- Supplier relationship maintenance
- Podcast Editing: Podbean, Descript
- Social Media Management: Instagram, Facebook
PERSONAL INTERESTS
I am currently learning Korean as I have an interest in Korean culture
I love travel with South Korea, Japan and China next on my list of countries to visit
In 2020 I started co-hosting, editing and running a podcast and social media account about The Royal Family surpassing over 1 million downloads and over 28,000 Instagram followers
Timeline
Buying Administrator
Sainsbury's Argos
2018.05 - 2026.04
Merchandise Database Assistant
Argos
2017.02 - 2018.05
Retail Deputy Manager
Warehouse Fashion
2015.01 - 2017.05
Concession Manager
Wallis Fashion
2012.01 - 2014.01
BTEC National Diploma - Beauty Therapy
Bletchley College
2004.01 - 2006.01
10 GCSE’s & 4 A Levels - undefined
Leon School and Sports College
1998.01 - 2004.01