Senior Import Merchandiser
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- NVQ Level 2 Administration
- English Speaking Board
- Spelling Skills
- CLAIT
- OCR Word Processing
- OCR Text Processing
- Certificate in Administration
- 2005 Accrington & Rossendale College
- 2004 Fearns Community High School – 7 GCSEs Achieved
Systems used
- Microsoft Word and Excel
Career Summary
Current Employer – Business Manufacturing and Supply
Position – Various Roles
Dates – January 2015 – Present
Position – Senior Import Merchandiser
Dates – 2018 – Present
- Handling key customer accounts such as B&M and The Works with a large orderbook of lines
- Raising orders with the Far East and managing the Critical Path from development stage until delivery
- Chasing samples, arranging container fills, shipment image forms, dealing with any customer or supplier queries
- Working in a fast-paced environment and dealing with many departments to ensure orders run smoothly
- Weekly updates with customers and supplier on running orders
Position – Operations
Dates – January 2015 – 2018
- Handled customer queries on deliveries
- Placed orders for stock and checking customer orders
- Booked transport for palletised deliveries
- Checked stock once unloaded from containers
- Arranged rework when stock arrives incorrect
Previous Employer – Business-to-Business Services
Position – Operations Support
Dates – April 2012 – December 2014
- Daily allocation of orders for despatch
- Booked in drivers for warehouse deliveries on arrival
- Generating overseas shipments for monthly campaigns/arranging transport
- Costings for overseas shipments – parcels/pallets
- Daily log for manual despatches
- General email/telephone queries with relations to stock, orders, international shipments
- General ad hoc duties
- Daily stock fulfilment queries
- Maintained goods in/inbound SLA
Previous Employer – Marketing Support Services
Position – Administration Assistant
Dates – September 2011 – April 2012
- General allocation of daily orders for clients
- Arranged despatch of overseas orders, tracking of the orders
- Took bookings for the warehouse
- Set up of products codes on company system
- General office duties
Previous Employer – Footwear Wholesaler
Position – Various Roles
Dates – October 2006 – July 2011
Position – Sales Administrator
Dates – August 2007 – July 2011
- Email queries from customers / suppliers
- Order processing – Ordering packaging / labels
- Exhibitions
- Arranged deliveries
- Tracked shipments
- Sample ordering/tracking
Position – Wholesale Assistant
Dates – August 2007 – January 2007
- Took orders via showroom/telephone
- Ordered stock for customers to the office warehouse
- General customer queries i.e. stock prices, stock levels
- Exhibitions
Position – Office Assistant
Dates – October 2006 – August2007
- Order processing
- Credit/Invoicing
- Covering on reception/switchboard
- Purchase ledger – raising orders to suppliers
- Post
- Ordering stationery
