RETAIL BUYER & MERCHANDISER Elodie CHAUDERON
Paris 11ème +33(0)6-59-60-91-70
Clean driving license (own car)
[email protected] Skype id : echauderon http://elodie.chauderon.free.fr
MAIN EXPERIENCE 2013 1 year
1 year
2010
6m
2009 1 year 2 years
Retail Buyer & Merchandiser France - PETIT BATEAU (YVES ROCHER) Paris, France Category : Babies, Kids, Women and Men / Products: Ready-to-wear, leathergoods and accessories / 160 stores + ecommerce Budgets and OTB construction : €30 million => Tools construction : historical data, growth, % risk, trends End-to-end buying process: products and assortments selection, buying plans, price and margin structure, quantities to order KPI analysis (sell thru, stock, turnover per square meter) on entire life cycles of products from concept to markdown list Supply chain coordination : forecasts, stock management, cadence of deliveries and reorders Visual merchandising coordination: themes planning, space management, lateness follow-up Management of an assistant Retail Buyer & Merchandiser assistant Europe and Middle East - CHRISTIAN DIOR COUTURE (LVMH) Paris, France Category: Men / Products : Ready-to-wear, leathergoods and accessories / 19 stores + ecommerce over 6 countries Budget and OTB construction Buying process: products and assortments selection, quantities to order KPI and trends analysis: specific strategies with local market places Supply chain coordination: forecasts, rebalancing, stock management and reorders Sales team support: sales books creation, training (image and product) and incentives Visual merchandising, marketing and production coordination Luxury sales specialist - CALYPSO MONTAIGNE MARKET St Barths F.W.I (department store) Appropriate advices, sales, stocks management, buying process and reorders B to B Business and Marketing engineer - BOLLORE GROUP - SDV USA New York Project management (Up to €370 million): B to B prospecting and negotiation, answer to RFQ, pricing and contracts setting up, synthesis Strategic marketing: market benchmark, visual aids, sales reports, statistics - THALES (Aerospace navigation BU) Toulouse, France Project management (Up to 500,000€): B to B negotiation, pricing and contracts setting-up, answer to RFQ, synthesis, KPI analysis (forecasts, margin and turnover), loyalty system Strategic marketing: complex market study in all European countries, new products launching
2006 2 years Freelance Marketing consultant: benchmark, business plans, business dealing, media, events and visual identity QUALIFICATION 2010-11
French Institute of Fashion- IFM Paris, France Postgraduate program in Management of Fashion, Design and Luxury Textile Technical knowledges : raw materials - manufacturing cycles - enhanced value schemes - fitting Cosmetics Technical knowledge : raw materials - concepts - story telling - marketing - projects - distribution Obtention of the Excellence reward for the creation of a leathergood brand in partnership with JM Weston Obtention of the 2nd reward for the l’Oréal strategy plan / Congratulations on the Guerlain concept study Thesis: Retail merchandising strategy of luxury firms (interviews of Prada, Chanel, Dior, YSL, Sonia Rykiel, Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Burberry)
2005-08 2003-05 2002
Graduate Business School of Management - ESC Toulouse (Equis, AACSB , AMBA accredited) Toulouse, France Advanced Technician in International Trade (ECTS and ECVET accredited) Toulouse, France Baccalauréat C with honors in mathematics and physics, equivalent to A’ Levels Toulouse, France
IT (PC and mac) Languages
MS Office (Word, Excel (VBA included), Powerpoint, Access), Visio, SAP, MS Project, Cognos Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash (diploma at AP Formation in 2010) French: Fluent (mother tongue) English: Fluent (TOEIC 860)
Spanish: Good working knowledge Portuguese: Basic knowledge
INTERESTS Artistic skills: Drawing (regional award), website creation, 6 years of piano Leisure: Salsa, martial arts, indoor sport Foreign activities: United States, UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, French West Indies, Morocco, French Guyana, Brazil
