Gloria Navarro Albaladejo

Senior Merchandiser in the Strategic Vendor Management Shoes

ADIN

Nov 2016 - May 2017 (7 months)

department. Responsibilities included, but not limited to: - Managing product development for private label all brands. - Leading team in merchandising and development at sourcing office. - Establishing sourcing office in Spain: sourcing appropriate factories, sourcing exclusive materials. - Season planning and collection development and coordination with PM at headquarters. - Production follow-up: delivery planning, negotiation and minimizing the impact of delays, production and logistics follow up. - Quality control coordination and product quality standard, quality assurance. - Product management, knowledge of KPI and final product expectation by final customer. - Reporting to Berlin SCM/SVM director in Berlin. - Fitting checki

Pilot projects in Quality assurance and Ethical trading, Feb

ADIN

Oct 2015

- Organization, along with headquarter team of 15, of Vendors Days with Spanish textile and footwear suppliers. Alicante October 2015. - Factory training in quality assurance: resulting in significant impact decrease of failed tested products. 2014-2015. - Pilot projects in Quality assurance and Ethical trading, Feb. 2016. - Reorders ratio improvement from 28% to 35% from SS2016 to SS2017, and subsequently, brand improvements on stock turn. - Achievement of 2-3 weeks reorders time frame. - Collaboration with designer on Hien Lee collection for Zign, designer signature collection exclusively designed and produced in Spain. - Sourcing of exclusive printed materials to India for wallet and bag productions. - Follow up of designing exclu

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Senior Product Manager

Zalando Group

2015

- Sourcing and executing launching of new Zalando Brand, Zalando Iconics, (2015) exclusively sourced and reordered from Spain, with creative head Rafael Nespereira, coordinating entire process: from design packaging to final production delivery. - Management of 396 Skus, and 119.450 pairs bought on SS15, with a total inseason reorder % of 18.7%. ? Senior Product Manager for Zlabels (Zalando Group) Responsible for Zalando Collection with 3 people team (order manager, junior PM, assistant) -Launching Zalando collection - Senior product manager for Zlabels (Zalando) team lead for Zalando Collection footwear, Nov 2011- SS13 Feb.2013. Collection building & E-commerce strategy on fashion women Brand.

Senior Sourcing Manager (Freelancer)

ADIN

Aug 2013 - Oct 2016 (3 years 3 months)

Alicante. Responsibilities included, but not limited to: - Supporting successfully other brands in European sourcing. - In depth analysis, preparation, evaluation, control and preselection of footwear styles for zLabels GmbH's different brands, and close follow up of suppliers' activities in the Spanish market. - Sourcing factories. - Sourcing exclusively designed materials. - Coordination of collections, implementation, along with designers, of a development process and calendars of different brands for European market sourcing. - Product development, monitoring different brands, including ladies PU and leather, kids, injection and men. - Marketing collection development, with brand designers and PM. - Sample, fitting and producti

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General Merchandising Manager

Bata Iberia

May 2009 - Dec 2010 (1 year 8 months)

Responsibilities included, but not limited to: - Budget management of approx. 50 million euros per year on different categories at cost. - Supervision and management of buying team (10 employees including merchandisers) control, and product management of each category. - Collaboration and supervision of marketing activities, including commercial calendar, with special products designed/sourced and planned for specific weeks and promotions across the year, including planned sales margin, store location and estimated stock turn. - Logistic supervisor, 10 team members on warehouse + IT. - Redesign of logistic deliveries to the stores (biweekly) considering sales volume and replenishing needs. - International buying scout trips, including

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Branch Manager in Portugal and Canary Islands

Bata Shoes

May 2007 - May 2009 (2 years 1 month)

Responsibilities included, but not limited to: - Product supervision and sales management for Canary Island and Portuguese stores, 47 stores, which are 48% of the total stores, monitoring 3 area managers. - Development of special product collections per area (fashion forward). - Locating, developing and implementing line of products specific to these markets. Main achievements: - 1,800,000 Euro turnover in one style alone, with 25,000 pairs sold on one season, retailed at 69.90 euro, 20% more expensive than average product on the category.

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Scout and selection one year ahead

Central Park Spain

May 2005 - May 2007 (2 years 1 month)

Product Development. Responsibilities included, but not limited to: - Line Builder: - Scout and selection one year ahead on fashion market of future trends, central Europe meetings with sales responsible. - Story board and colour range for the designers and sales vendors, colour cards and materials. - Team work supporting 3 designers and working closely with creative head to source 4-year based collection, with an average of 2,500 prototypes per collection, and 130 constructions, on ladies, kids, and casual sports. - Collections presented attending major exhibitions: Lineapelle (to source materials) and MIcam, GDS (supporting sales team). - Client Relationship Manager. - Factory Supervision in Asia (China, Don Guan, Vietnam HCM) and

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Chief Buyer

Sep 2003 - May 2005 (1 year 9 months)

Bata Spain and Portugal. Responsibilities included, but not limited to: - Supervising collections, suppliers selection and terms negotiation with suppliers for men, children, sports, bags and accessories lines. - Contribution to standardization of processes and methodologies within the company: ? collection classification by fashion content and purchasing volume depths; ? store classifications by volume sales and customer typology, including franchising and special tropical areas; ? pre-buying budget follow-up; ? development of a clustered product narrative by product types resulting on a matrix or "paper collection" following the Open-to-Buy Budget.

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European Steering Committee Member

different Bata companies

Jan 2002 - Current (23 years 6 months)

(At Product Development Center in Compar, Italy). Trimester meetings of the six European members in order to decide common interest product lines. - Presenting at internal purchasing meetings regarding Iberian product developments and strategic local suppliers that were adopted by the entire multinational group. Main achievements: - Creation of a line of complementary sales: a foot care line of products including B-Care (nourishing lotion), B-Fresh (cooling gel), B-Comfort (moisturizing cream). This project involved negotiating and contract signing with a ASACpharma (pharmaceutical company), logo design and product naming. The products were introduced in an internal international company meeting and adopted in different Bata companies

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Distributor, assistant, junior buyer

Bata Iberia

Dec 2000 - Nov 2003 (3 years)

Ladies collection responsible for, and not only: - Collection structure for all product categories, good reception planning, inn store distribution. Direct responsible on ladies' category mk down, KPI's: Estimated sales, Stock turn, sales margin and total % markdown in the category. - Responsible for Asia and Brazil imports, management of container volumes and consolidation, dealing and selecting forwarders and terms and estimation of currencies on future. Sharing experience and good seller information with another product manager within the multinational company on worldwide basis. - Full responsibility on product development and product selection, supplier selection, also on international level. Negotiation of terms and production, cur

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Junior product management

Bata Spain and Portugal

Oct 1998 - Dec 2000 (2 years 3 months)

Orders management and follow up. Replenishment of best sellers to stores and reorders to the suppliers. Collaboration on a standardization system to initial collection distribution to the stores linked to the budget and creation of a pre-buying data base to improve the follow up of the pre-collection till the official orders were issued.

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Ladies Assistant Buyer, stock management performance

Bata Spain and Portugal

Sep 1997 - Sep 1998 (1 year 1 month)

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Sales agent

Manuel Navarro Rios, S.L

Jun 1995 - Sep 1997 (2 years 4 months)

in a company of footwear accessories and trimmings. - Attendance of international business exhibitions as MICAM (Italy) and Futurmoda (Alicante). - New customers management and debts management. DEGREES, SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS, AND AWARDS ? B.A in Urban Geography 1993. University of Alicante. ? Master of Management and Promotion on Rural Tourism June 1994. FUNDESCOOP

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Albert, under Professor Enrique Jiménez López

June 1994. University of Alicante

? Study Abroad with an Erasmus grant in Universita degli Studi di Macerata (Marche, Italy) 1990-91. ? Scholarship for historical research from Instituto Juan Gil-Albert, under Professor Enrique Jiménez López. 1990. ? 13th Young Geographers Conference, presenting on Urban Planning and Social Conflict in Elche. Presented in Sevilla, November, 1990.

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