Jessica Teixeira

An enthusiastic, creative and organised individual with practical experience utilising technological

tools to aid a timely delivery of tasks and activities.

Possessing great communication and negotiation skills to build a brand’s relationship with potential and actual clients, suppliers and partners.

With +4 years experience working with administration, procurement, customer service and market analysis, always aiming to provide great products and experiences to customers.

Now looking for an opportunity in a new and exciting industry, with the goal to learn and quickly evolve within my role.

Assistant Buyer

Life Style Sports - May, 2021 - Dec, 2021

• Responsible for the procurement and product range building, merchandising, and supplier management of the Kids Footwear category.
• Weekly analysed trends, sales and stock levels to create pricing and marketing strategies to optimize sales results and protect the category profit margin and stock.
• Worked on trend forecasting and product range selection, closely managing different suppliers such as Nike, Adidas and Under Armour to create premium collections tailored to the Irish market.
• Collaborated with the Kids department manager, marketing and e-commerce teams to create the Kids Footwear presence on social media and e-commerce, elaborating the visual identity and communications strategy for the category.
• Accomplished an increase of 2% in sales versus the year previous, as well as achieving important KPIs for the Kids Footwear category such as 16% increase in sales during "Back to School" period versus the year previous.

Buying Admin

Life Style Sports - Mar, 2020- May, 2021

• Responsible for the administration of the Women's and Kids buying departments.
• Worked on purchase order preparation, effectively and accurately inputting orders into the system and managing orders until delivered.
• Daily operated stock management systems such as D365 and Nova, ensuring adequate allocation and delivery to warehouse plus 42 stores around Ireland and Northern Ireland.
• Run and analysed Tableu reports to identify stock requirements and future trends. Acted on findings by liaising with buyers and suppliers to procure exciting and tailored products.
• Reached KPIs for the role relating to effective analysis of data and insight generation, management of multiple tasks and prioritisation, data input accuracy, and good communication that allowed the departments to run efficiently and capitalise on new opportunities.

Trainee Buyer - Fixed Term Contract

Primark - Apr, 2019- Nov, 2019

• Worked on the range planning of products for various locations including Ireland, Italy, France, USA, Iberia and the UK, accounting for the diversity of those markets and the variety of customer preferences.
• Weekly analysed the performance of global and regional markets and made commercial decisions such as adjusting regional product package, price, discount and product quantities to aid sales and protect margins.
• Managed the department relationship with suppliers to aid timely development of products, assuring deadlines and quality.
• Worked closely with the section head buyer by carrying out market research and trend analysis to support the creation of trendy products and ranges.

Retail Manager, Brown Thomas

Ted Baker - Feb, 2018- Apr, 2019

• Responsible for all aspects of management of concession including liaising with buying department to acquire the right merchandise, selling, managing visual merchandise, human resources, as well as general commercial and operational tasks.
• Effectively liaise with Ted Baker's marketing, merchandising and buying team to establish and apply techniques to increase shop-ability of the brand within Brown Thomas and to achieve company's KPIs.
• Through active customer behaviour analysis and by establishing correct sales tools and techniques, I generated growth and profit to the company by increasing Ted Baker Menswear revenue by 37% versus previous year.

Sales Assistant, Brown Thomas

Ted Baker - Nov, 2015- Jan, 2018

• Assisted customers instore and via phone, maintaining 5* customer service standard.
• Supported concessions sales results through clienteling.
• Effectively provided stylist service to concession's customers
• Supported the development and maintenance of in-store merchandising strategy aligned to the brand's customer base and preferences.

Business Co-owner

Bella Fitness - Mar, 2015- Feb, 2017

• Developed the company's business plan, e-commerce and social media
• Gathered and analysed data to improve e-commerce through Shopify, focusing on improving customer reach, acquisition and retention, sales conversion and average purchase value.
• Frequently analysed the sportswear market in order to identify trends, customer behaviour and accordingly integrated findings to the marketing and product strategy.
• Managed social media content and advertisement campaigns, utilising mainly Facebook ads and influencer marketing.

Higher Certificate in Business Sustainability  2020

University of Cambridge - UK

BA in Business Studies (1.1) 2017

International College Dublin

Marketing Diploma 2011

Instituto Nacional de Educação a Distância

Technical skills

Google Suit/Trello

Advanced Microsoft Office

Microsoft D365

Tableu/WSSI

Social Med

Instagram

Facebook

Pinterest

Language Skills 

English - Fluent

Portuguese - Native

Spanish - Intermediate