Stephen Quinn

Stepped into Home Furnishings, Kitchens, J Merchandising role, to rebuild a knowledge learning how M&S operate.

• Leading FMCG category sales turn over £41m
• Stock holding average of £20m
• Experience with M&S brand suppliers and SO's from multiple locations across the world.
• Worked with SO's to manipulate & build full containers.
• Liaising with Space, VM, Online, DC, Retail.
• Presentation skills to leadership teams

• Maximised roll out of the Blue Yonder forecasting, intake system to 50% Core ranges for M&S
• Merchandisers onboarded from commercial areas across M&S
• Built a new five person M&S BY rollout team.
• Project management experience developed whilst rolling Blue Yonder systems with other M&S departments to ensure world class information working together
• Blue Yonder performance rebalanced stock holding, improved availability, and reduced DC Excess stock
• Leadership communication skills grown whilst onboarding multiple departments.

• Warehouse knowledge & experience
• 2.4m Stansted Airport Engineering inventory stock on Maximo
• Relocated inventory, warehouses, office into new location
• Supported Engineers with inventory across Stansted Airport
• Different Stansted Airport process, - verbal, limited emails
• Stock of multiple sizes, usage in departments, COSH managed
• Forklift truck 5ton driver qualified.

• Progressed into F&R Central Team to drive 'Forecast & Replenishment tool'
• Data experience utilizing commercial info into presentations
• DC experience ensuring outbound requirements are fulfilled
• Ireland's commercial contact- forecasting, intake, distribution
• Trained merchandisers on how to use 'F&R' tool
• Drove TAB meetings showing 'Correct Commercial Processes'
• Arranged inventory with DC to launch new stores

• Leading FMCG category sales turn over £600m
• Stock holding average of £88m
• Stock turn of 7.70
• Successfully Led team of five merchandisers
• Experience working with major key brands, Samsung, LG, Sony
• Supplier displays managed across multiple variable stores
• Improved Vision availability average above 90%
• Drove positive increases to SRV & Margin above budgets.
• Reduced Excess & Aged stock holding
• Working with multiple departments, Space, Marketing, Online, DC, Retail
• Merchandised 'Online Only' during 'covid' restrictions
• Presentations to groups, Directors, Managers, Suppliers.
• Great communication skills with Buyers, Account managers

• Leading sales turn over £136m
• Stock holding average of £32m
• Stock turn of 4.61
• Successfully Led team of four merchandisers
• Great experience working with brands, Sonos, Bose, Apple
• Own Brand experience purchasing ranges from far east
• Experienced seasonality, driven by multiple categories.
• Effective merchandise forecasting, intake & cost control
• Forecasting promotions, seasonality, plus supplier awareness
• Merchandised all CE, Whites, Computing commercial floor.

• Salesperson, plus management training to store manager
• Retail knowledge of business operations at store level, with customers at heart of everything.