Founder/Director - Be Inspired LTD
(2017-01)
Events Company, Music Distribution
- Planning, leading, and executing various youth events; career fairs, music nights, valentine's events. (attendance of 50-200)
- Setting the yearly budget and forecasts.
- Leading a team of 22 and delegating work to team leaders; Hospitality, finance, band, audio visual team and media.
- Designing flyers and social media content for Instagram, Tik-Tok, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
- Tracking artist performance and implementing growth strategies to grow streams and audience reach.
National Account Executive - Henkel
(2023-01 - 2023-12)
Maternity Leave
- Managed key retail accounts (Waitrose, Co-op & Nisa) and delivered sales growth.
National Account Manager - TOTM
(2022-01 - 2023-12)
- First month brought on a new customer worth £5,000 annually. (largest company customer worth £629,000 annually).
Buyer – Femcare & Incontinence | Baby & Beauty - HBW - Tesco
(2021-01 - 2022-12)
- Managed £2.3m category, delivered +17% growth, led campaigns and supplier strategy.
- Implemented a project to change promotion mechanics on Femcare and Inco products.
- Leading the Get Lippy 2022 Campaign with Tesco. Initiating brands involvement in the campaign- £71k raised
- Identified a 4 million growth opportunity for the category. Implemented through a Clustering Project.
- Identified gaps within the range; introduced a new customer need state by listing BEYOU patches.
- Expanding the growth of sustainable products within Femcare; Lil-lets organics.
- Supplier Negotiation: Cost price increases, NPD, Supplier funded Media; promotional deals, and Baby events. brands such as Always, Tampax, Bodyform, Lil-let's, TOTM and femfresh.
- Driving the delivery of trade, through an increase of 10% in feature space gate fees.
- Baby and Beauty Team Promotions Representative: Planning and conducting team meetings each period regarding promotions. Ensuring each team member has loaded and nominated their promotions before the deadline.
Buying Assistant – Tesco Cafes - Tesco
(2020-01 - 2021-12)
- Identified and established new suppliers that improved the quality of service and products within Tesco Cafes.
- Conducted regular store/website visits, reviewed customer insights and food trends, which shaped our future range.
- Established a supplier database to track and review any potential or existing suppliers.
- Supported the Supply Chain Team, to ensure products are in store on time & in full.
Packaging Buyer (Procurement) - Burtons Biscuits
(2018-01 - 2020-12)
- Sustainability - Led the implementation of moving to clear plastic trays
- Led negotiations that maintained or improved margin.
- Database Management - Ensured correct Procurement pricing information had been loaded onto systems including SAP.
- Raised Purchase Orders as required (SAP SRM)
- Resolved invoice queries via work cycle, providing relevant details and information to support the invoices.
- Provided pricing on projects for Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons, Asda, Aldi, Lidl, Mars, Mondelez
Store Manager - Simply Fresh- Start Up
(2016-01 - 2018-12)
- Cash/invoice reconciliation, Processing orders, merchandising, liaising with premium companies; Pollen and Grace, Savse, Quibbles
- Contributing to the department's success by ensuring the KPI's are continually met.
- Managing a staff wage budget of 2,250 a week ensuring the hours do not exceed.
Service Leader - Faith Community LTD
(2022-01)
Team Leader overseeing 10 departments
Social Media Management - Graphic Design - Self-Employed
(2018-01)
Managing 6 accounts
Choir Director - Self-Employed
(2017-01)
Young Adults Mentor - Self-Employed
(2017-01)
