Experience — Nathirah Damoes

About Me

My passion is trends and how this influences the customers buying behaviour. I have a great eye for fashion, a certificate in Fashion Merchandising , I have also completed my National Diploma in Retail Business Management. I am currently employed at Woolworths as an Assistant Buyer for Boys Accessories.

I am a creative with a focus on sourcing trends, understanding the customer, and translating this to successful sales of the brand. This requires knowledge of the LSM and key insights of our customer.

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Experiences

My current portfolio is the Assistant Buyer for Boys Accessories.

Detailed Description

As part of my portfolio as an Assistant Buyer, I have been buying the Classic Casual Collection - Dresses & Bottoms
Analyse sales trends / history and formulate strategy, as well as provide input into Group strategy
Research local and international markets and interpret trends for the Woolworths customer
Procuring agreed ranges involving interdepartmental co-ordination
Negotiating of cost prices resulting in value for money, selling price points and primary margins being achieved
Implementing and maintaining quality standards regarding look and style of merchandise
Adherence to critical path
Growth and development of business
Product development
Range construction

Detailed Description

As part of my development as a trainee buyer, I bought Knit Dresses and Knit Bottoms
Assist in ensuring the product range is delivered timeously to meet our customers’ needs
Provide input into the development and delivery of the departmental strategy
Ensure garments are available for all reviews
Management of Critical Path via RMS / Quest
Contract and purchase order management
Ensure that all red and black seals are approved
Administer all contract and import orders
Administer and maintain RMS, including item set up, preparation and management of contracting and management of buying ordering process
Manage the control of review and marketing samples as well as sample sales
Ensure that the venue and relevant documents are prepared for reviews
Liaise with stores, franchisees and suppliers

As part of my development I am currently assisting with the below:
• Product Procurement - Buying two sub-classes - Classic Casual Knit & Woven Bottoms.
• Ensuring that product specifications are briefed on time and comprehensively to suppliers.
• Ensuring on time delivery to group critical path.
• Present Knit & Woven Bottom range in reviews to management.
• Cost price negotiation and finalizing items.
• Range building Knit & Woven Bottoms in line with department strategy.
• Assist buyer range build balance of sub-classes.
• Sourcing of suitable fabrics and fabric updates for key items.
• Present Attributes for both sub-classes in product reviews.
• Present competitor shop and customer analysis in reviews.
As part of my Buyer's Assistant Function:
• Assist in ensuring the product range is delivered timeously to meet our customers’ needs
• Provide input into the development and delivery of the departmental strategy
• Ensure garments are available for all reviews
• Management of Critical Path via RMS / Quest
• Contract and purchase order management
• Ensure that all red and black seals are approved
• Administer all contract and import orders
• Administer and maintain RMS, including item set up, preparation and management of contracting and management of buying ordering process
• Manage the control of review and marketing samples as well as sample sales
• Ensure that the venue and relevant documents are prepared for reviews
• Liaise with stores, franchisees and suppliers
• Online co-ordinator for David Jones - Ensuring the entire department's online visibility is maintained at 100%

• Drive Sales
• Manage Customer Accounts
• Customer Satisfaction – Assist Customers and their demands
• Travel – Overseas and Local
• Influence Product Potential by customer
• Range Building – Customer Specific ranges
• Market Research – Trend Research and Comp Shop
• Present Ranges and Trend to Customers at Seasonal Range Showings
• Briefing product by Customer
• Report writing
• Cost Price Negotiation
• Understand Customer Needs and Demands – Price, Quality and Availability of products.
• Order Chasing
• Manage QA Feedback to and from Customers
• Understanding and meeting Sales Targets per month

• Understand Season Trends and assist in the Trend Presentations to all Customers (Buyers and Planners etc)
• Create an online trend research report for the Merchandise Manager for all overseas trips – Special focus is Menswear.
• Assist in building strategic product ranges by customer including new product development, CORE styles, Key Items, Seasonal Fashion Styles, Identify Opportunities and Understand Customer Handwriting and Preference.
• Responsible for the compilation of Product Brief per customer
• Requesting orders from Retail Customers where Cost Prices, Delivery Dates and CADS have been approved.
• Manage Delivery Roll Outs, Extensions and Early Delivery Requests from Customers and Head Office.
• Assisting to identify key areas of improvement and strategy by Account (Retail Customer Account)
• Actively assist in increasing Turnover – Sample Sales, Customer Communication, Quick Style Turn around, Development of new styles, Suggest Stock options to Retail Customers to suit their brand.
• Working closely with Sourcing Team in order to meet retail customer deadlines
• Merchandising:
o Merchandising Menswear Neckwear Showroom
o Create Visual Neckwear Boards – Neckwear Season Trends where required
o Create Visual Mood boards and demonstration boards (i.e How to knot a Tie in different ways)
• Assist in Merchandising Menswear Belts, Wallet and Bag to present to Retail Customers at Seasonal Range Showings
• Research current and updated merchandise display / visual trends
• Product Sales Analysis
• Identifying competitor product
• Required to Travel to Durban and JHB for Team Meetings (Strategic Product Building Meetings etc)
• Manage Guest List, Catering, Venue for Events

• Assist Fashion Director and Fashion Editor in producing a 10-page fashion feature:
Sending out briefs and follow up with calls to ensure retailers are sending merchandise for shoots.
• Assist with the sourcing of fashion items
• Liaise with the Johannesburg fashion team
• Organise and reconcile petty cash monthly
• Compiling credits and stockists for the 10 page fashion feature.
• Produced various upfront fashion pages:
1 x Budget Page + 1 x Most Wanted + 2 x Shop Like A Star (Trend and
Celebrity) Or Fashion Workshop (finds four “real women” to model, women who actually fit Cosmopolitan’s target demographic).
• Compiles “The Look” page, writing the copy as well as sourcing and shooting for it.
• Assist in ensuring all fashion in the magazine is the best it can be:
• Source and shoot fashion items needed by the editorial department to illustrate an article.
• Maintain good relationships with clients.
• Attending launches as well as representing the magazine at various networking opportunities.

• Managing the store in the absence of the store manager.
• Stock takes of the merchandise in the store at the end of each month.
• Cashing up and reconciling sales
• Visual Merchandising of the window as well as clothing.
• General store admin as well as manage staff

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