Fashion Merchandising Emily Add on's , Trading
The visual manager for wholesale at Danish brand house Bestseller seized every opportunity.
Emily Potter
What does your diary await like today?
A standard day for me doesn't really be; my job is very diverse. On a Monday, which is our trade day, I'm essentially an extension of the sales team. I wake upwards at 7.30am and am out by 8am. I'm non a 'getting ready' daughter, I adopt my sleep. I'thousand in the office for 8.30am, where I avoid the mash round but will happily order every time someone offers. From there on in it's all figures - reacting and feeding dorsum on figures and co-ordinating the week's focus via phone calls and emails. We finish at 5pm simply I stay subsequently because I'm never ordinarily done. When it'southward quieter I see the opportunity to piece of work faster without distractions. I'm surrounded by great people and beloved learning from them.
What coming together are you most looking forrad to today?
The merchandise coming together. I like having a meaningful, productive and resourceful end to the day, communicating with those people who know best what's going on out there.
What meeting do you wish you could postpone?
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Meeting with the planning department to hash out our key accounts. Although incredibly challenging and exciting, it requires a lot of energy and ideas, having to constantly call up of new and exciting ways to push and bend the boundaries in an attempt to come out on top of our competitors.
How did you lot become to where you lot are today?
A combination of existence fortunate plenty to exist offered some bang-up opportunities and always beingness wide-eyed plenty to come across them and leap. I've worked in a broad range of dissimilar organisations, allowing me to learn the mechanics of many different working environments. But simply put, I worked my socks off from the ground up, starting with 8-hour shifts at [York indie] Coggles greeting and thanking customers, to get to where I am today.
What has been your career highlight?
Moving to Bestseller and being given the opportunity to fix this astonishing department.
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Who is your mentor?
I allow myself to learn from all angles.
My team plants inspiring ideas and we grow them together into a new strategy and mode of working. Just my existent mentor is my state director, Allan Nielsen.
What's the best advice he'south given y'all?
"Trust people, testify them respect and they will respond with loyalty and hard work."
How do y'all see your career progressing?
I believe plans can be counterproductive, they put boxes around possibilities.
What advice would y'all requite to someone wanting to follow in your footsteps?
Exist overnice to people, work hard, proceed inspired and don't stop learning.
If you could work in another expanse of fashion, what would it be?
Shop pattern. I savor thinking about the use of infinite and how to maximise information technology. I have a passion for article of furniture and interior pattern, and [social media platform] Pinterest fuels that interest on a daily basis. I at present come up with window designs together with my colleagues, always gaining creative direction from Pinterest.
- Salaries range from £32,000 to £forty,000 (estimate provided past Fashion & Retail Personnel)
CV
2009 Visual managing director, wholesale, Bestseller Group
2008 Wholesale visual merchandising co-ordinator (North), Diesel
2006 Assistant buyer/merchandiser, Jack & Jones franchise, Sarah Coggles
2005 Visual merchandiser, Marks & Spencer
2004 Sales assistant, Sarah Coggles, York
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2013-07-12
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