Shanna Mc Neill

Performing all or some of the following duties in all roles with varying levels of responsibility: • Overseeing buying and merchandising activities • Supervising, coaching, training, motivating and mentoring personnel, setting clear goals and expectations, providing relevant feedback and discipline as required • Managing buyers, planners, trainees, allocators and inventory controllers effectively, to ensure customer growth, brand awareness and operational excellence • Establishing, implementing and overseeing effective systems, processes and controls • Initiating new ideas and concepts, successfully incorporating change management • Identifying and translating trends which influence retail into commercial, beautiful, and profitable product ranges • Building strong working relationships, ensuring a high level of integration and effective communication channels with internal and external stakeholders • Producing various reports, presentations, analyses, correspondence and other documentation, whilst maintaining meticulous records • Performing as a strong leader of a cohesive team with strict enforcement of statutory regulations, quality standards, governance processes and compliance requirements • Travelling locally and internally for sourcing, negotiations, product development and trends forecasting • Determining, researching and managing implementation of a business strategy, for expansion into international territories such as Australia and Poland • Ensuring accurate forecasting of sales and other key performance metrics, with efficient stock management