Senior Partnerships Manager
Ref: 540467
Northampton, Northamptonshire
£70,000
- Permanent
- Merchandising
- Skilled In Retail And Wholesale Management
- Immediately Available
About the candidate
Our candidate is a highly experienced Senior Partnerships Manager with an impressive track record of over 15 years in management roles within both retail and wholesale merchandising teams. Their expertise spans across assortment planning, budget creation and maintenance, forecasting, and ensuring KPIs such as WOS/WOC, OTB, and markdown strategy are met. They have consistently ensured forecast accuracy within 3% while successfully keeping discontinued inventory below 10% of the total inventory across stores and distribution centres. Utilising trading calendars effectively, they have identified opportunities to maximise the sell-through of end-of-season stocks by working closely with marketing departments to create a unified strategy.
What makes them great?
- Consistently ensuring forecast accuracy within 3%.
- Keeping discontinued inventory below 10% of the total inventory across stores and DC stock holdings.
- Maximising sell-through of end-of-season stocks in collaboration with the marketing department.
- Achieved sales increases of +100% through improved listings for key best-sellers.
- Decreasing stock levels by £6m while maintaining discontinued stock at less than 10% of stock holding.
Areas of expertise
- Account Management and Lead
- Assortment Planning
- Budget Setting
- Demand Planning
- Forecasting
- Management
- Multi Retail Marketing Marketplace Strategy
- Negotiation
- OTB Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Team Management
- Training and Development
- WSSI Management
- Systems - SAP, SCM/APO, BW Reporting, BO Reporting, Netsuite, Nexiom, Google Analytics, Waerlinx, Navcat/MySQL Reports, Mirakl, Commerce Hub, Amazon Seller Central.