Claire Atkinson
About
Claire Atkinson is from Hertford, England, United Kingdom. Claire is currently Group Buying Director at Yours Clothing. In Claire's previous role as a Head of Buying at Long Tall Sally, Pixiegirl and M&Co, Claire worked in until Apr 2024. Prior to joining Long Tall Sally, Pixiegirl and M&Co, Claire was a Buying Manager at Debenhams and held the position of Buying Manager at London Area, United Kingdom. Prior to that, Claire was a Senior Buyer at Wallis Fashion, based in London, United Kingdom from Mar 2007 to Feb 2008. Claire started working as Head of Buying and Product Development at ELLE in London, United Kingdom in Oct 2006. From Sep 1998 to Oct 2006, Claire was Senior Buyer at Principles for Women, based in London, United Kingdom.
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Claire Atkinson's current jobs
Claire Atkinson's past jobs
Principles (April 17 - June 20) Occasionwear, Branded Occasionwear, Star by Julien MacDonald and Studio by Preen (Mar 16 - Apr 17) Star by Julien MacDonald (May 13 - Mar 16) Along with my designer we re-established the brands DNA, the new product we introduced proved to be extremely successful seeing a significant growth in sales. Principles and Principles Petites by Ben De Lisi (July 09 - May 13) I successfully SOURCED, PRODUCT DEVELOPED and LAUNCHED these two departments within less than 6 months of being given the challenge. The brand went from strength to strength and grew to be the largest brand within the Debenhams womenswear portfolio. Betty Jackson. Black (Feb 08 - July 09)
Petites Department I joined Wallis to cover a maternity leave, the Petites department accounted for more than 25% of the overall womenswear sales plan.
As Head of Buying I implemented significant changes which had a positive impact on sales. I utilised my experience from working within a much larger organisation to help establish a professional and organised way of working, bringing together Buying, Design and Merchandising creating a more focused and productive environment.