Nomndeni Siphokazi Nkosi

• Managing Buyers within the formal Kelso Space
• Ensure that assigned team is effectively resourced, directed, motivated and developed to enable team members to reach their full potential.
• Drive and develop the performance of the team with a view to optimizing delivery and achievement of objectives, while effectively managing performance issues or concerns.
• Ensure that learning and development opportunities are available to the team.
• Cultivate a culture of high performance, accountability, and continuous improvement within the team to optimize sales and deliver KPIs.
• Mentor, coach, and develop the team to support their career development.
• Manage various functions within the buying department, including buying, design, and quality assurance, and ensuring alignment across these functions.
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• Style Group is a retail Value chain with over 100 stores, competes with Pep Power RFO JAM clothing choice Big daddy.
• Strategy Development: In partnership with the Executive, develop and execute a comprehensive product portfolio strategy aligned with the company's objectives, ensuring consistency and relevance across the product lifecycle, handwriting and execution. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with internal teams, including Marketing, Merchandising, Retail Operations, and Supply Chain, to ensure alignment and consistency in execution. Performance Monitoring: Establish relevant KPIs to measure and monitor product performance in terms of sales, inflows, margins, GP rands and optimizing strategies based on data-driven insights. Systems: Utilize relevant buying systems to support and enable performance. Leadership: Effectively lead the buying team for the relevant portfolio.

• Managed portfolio of ladies' wear, casual wear, and sleepwear. This was for the junior brand
• Procured stock for different countries.

Analyze past performance in relation to strategy and planned KPIs (in conjunction with the Planner).

Generates and reviews all relevant post-mortem reports.

· Review actual against budget and planned KPIs.

Draws conclusions on how effective or ineffective the strategy plan was executed.

Propose which products or categories to grow (i.e. the strategic investment in each area)

· Effectively interpret historical, current and future trends and their impact on the season.

Effectively integrates post-seasonal learnings, future trends, competitor information, and SWOT analysis for determining growth areas.

Propose new subcategories, and discontinued subcategories.

Established KPI goals for strategic success.

Successfully put together a strategy indicating the mission of the department, the plan to achieve it, how it will be actioned, and how it will be marketed.

Able to translate company and department objectives into action plans (e.g. Marketing plan, width and depth of assortment, and price point strategy.

Working in partnership with planners and other stakeholders.

Jointly develop an assortment plan with the Planners to support the strategy of the company.

• Managed portfolio pre and big girls' and ladies' knit top.
• Research and source new products to ensure the best range offering.
  • Analyze current trade trends to stay ahead of the competition.
  • Maintain good relationships with suppliers, and negotiate prices.
  Meet deadlines as per the critical path.

• Main purpose to create and maintain purchase order information to manage deliveries to ensure that stock arrives timorously and to manage sample compliance• Source and develop product ranges that meet customer expectations.
  • Analyze customer behavior data to inform buying decisions.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive business growth.