Tate Clayton Weir

My roles and responsibilities as the Senior Operations manager include;

• Lead all strategic operations within the office
• Researching and implementing new processes into the business to better work flow and team members day to day.
• Liaising with offshore & local vendors daily to ensure all of orders & styles have started production in line with our Production Lead Times.
• Built strong relationships with key stakeholders through consistent engagement, collaboration, and transparent communication practices.
• Ensuring the vendors product quality is to the standards of the business, this includes consistent online meetings with our vendors in China where we discuss the positive & negatives of each of our garments and discuss how we can improve it.
• Manage all claims and financial rebates. Connecting yearly with vendors to reach an agreed rebate value which we can put back into the business to continue a good working relationship
• Control all deliveries by range month into Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom. All deliveries must hit all of our stores on time in line with each campaign, this is my responsibility.
• Air freight management - ensuring all quotes are within budget and are signed off according to the weekly rate
• Oversee workforce management planning, volume predictions and capacity planning.
• Onboarding & off boarding new vendors
• Increased team productivity, providing ongoing training, coaching, and performance feedback to staff members.
• Create action plans & process maps for new and better processes to help the brand succeed
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams for seamless execution of initiatives and continuous improvement efforts.

My roles and responsibilities as the Senior Production & Supply Coordinator include;

• Management of a team of 5 Supply Coordinators – ensuring all deadlines are met and tasks meet expectation
• Liaising with offshore & local suppliers, including suppliers in China & India
• Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
• Manage styles, costings, fabrics and containers for expansion into the United Kingdom
• Create monthly commitment to buys to send to suppliers
• Run weekly reports on the 3 Clicks platform across all our departments and upcoming critical paths
• Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
• Manage excess and banked fabric across all departments & suppliers – controlling fabrics at liability of Peter Alexander
• Manage claims and rebates and ensure all are paid via our finance team
• Manage faulty stock from DC & stores – negotiation of claims to suppliers depended on loss of sales
• Control all deliveries by range month into Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom
• Air freight management - ensuring all quotes are within budget and are signed off according to the weekly rate
• Onboarding & off boarding new suppliers
• Coordinating and providing training sessions and schedules for new starters in production as well as recently on boarded suppliers
• Create action plans & process maps for new and better processes to help the brand succeed

My roles and responsibilities as the Senior Supply Coordinator include;

• Raising 100+ purchase orders each month according to planners requests
• Create weekly sea and air delivery schedules for all upcoming vessels and containers for AU & NZ
• Allocating and releasing EAN’s to be available with each range
• Liaising with all freight forwarders to ensure all Class A’s are booked and approved for shipment
• Coordinated logistics activities, ensuring smooth transportation of goods from suppliers to endusers.
• Working closely with the production and QA teams to ensure all garments make the required shipment
• Over looking all delays and extensions requested by suppliers to ensure all products arrive into store during the correct sales period
• Approve DA’s by cross checking all costings and units match the purchase orders

My roles and responsibilities as the Inventory manager for Victorian outlets include;

• Oversee day-to-day stock related operations, monitoring stock accuracy at stores
• Weekly reporting to management on inventory KPI’s
• Manage all stock related requests and issues across the business units
• Liaise with internal and external teams to identify and resolve issues
• Continually review, update, implement and train processes and reporting
• Manage stock take process and program, providing results and feedback
• Lead and mentor team by translating objectives into tasks, projects and goals
• Display initiative, being productive with resolutions and change

My roles and responsibilities as the Operations and Inventory Manager include;

• Lead buyer involving direct contact with international manufactures
• Negotiating with manufactures and suppliers MOQ, Material quality, custom made variations, pricing.
• Raising PO’s and processing invoices for payment
• Recently gained the responsibility of managing social media accounts
• Managing all inventory, controlling stock levels and stock takes
• Stock reporting weekly to owners
• Assisting with website and marketing designs
• Managing photo shoots, ensuring all products for shoot are accounted for and on set and return to head office
• Implementing new and improved streamline processes and procedures with owners and other staff in relation to stock management and reporting management