Anna Horat

I worked closely with the product development team, Account Managers and Buyers to supply a range of homewares to Australia's largest retailers, managing and nurturing those relationships.

Key Responsibilities:

• Setting pricing on products and working out costings to achieve company GP requirements.
• Placing orders & following up on deliveries for major accounts.
• Point of contact with customers both nationally and overseas.
• Assisting in seasonal range planning & providing sales analysis to the account managers & purchasing teams.
• Managing and overseeing all product details into internal database systems.
• Providing financials, including gross profit margins for both retail stores and the company.

My role was to provide administrative support to the Senior Buyers in Bathroom, Kids and Bedlinen.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assisted buyers in analyzing market trends, leading to informed purchasing decisions and competitive pricing strategies.
• Conducted regular reviews of supplier performance, identifying areas for improvement or potential replacement when necessary.
• Overseeing and allocating inventory stock to over 90 stores Australia wide.
• Clear and concise communication to stores, suppliers, and internal resources.
• Providing reports to assist with merchandise planning and managing.
• Raising local and overseas orders, allocating to stores according to sales and category performance.
• New store ordering, including raising orders, store tickets and follow up on all deliveries.
• Ensuring that all stock arrives in stores on time and prices changed for sales.
• Managing the follow up of merchandise samples for all catalogues and website for Marketing department.

My role was to assist the Buyer/Product Developer, Shipping Co-ordinator, Operations and Accounts Manager.