Career Goal:
To combine my background in strategic selling, relationship management and extensive online experience, with my passion for health & fitness and fashion within a dynamic, creative and industry-leading organisation.
Professional Experience:
- Fashion Online Strategist.
- Strong capabilities in operations, business development, enterprise sales & marketing.
- Demonstrated success in building and executing sales and business plans.
- Consistently meet & exceed revenue targets and deliver accurate and timely forecasting.
- Success in identifying & translating complex new ways of doing business.
- In-depth knowledge and experience in retail strategy, eCommerce strategy, Channel sales & closing deals.
- Proven ability to build high bonds with executive level customers, partners and internal stakeholders.
Key Skills:
- Leader with high emotional intelligence
- Cross functional project management
- Communications and presentation
- Execution and operations
- Analytical and creative
Employment Summary:
- eBay Inc
- Fitness First
- Rieker Footwear
- Slater Menswear
Part Time Fitness Instructor @ Fitness is one of my passions and a way I connect and re-energise after a hard day at work.
I am a fully qualified personal trainer and fitness instructor in Yoga, Pilates, Barre and Les Mills programs. From December 2013 to Present (1 year 11 months) Sydney Area, AustraliaStrategic Partnerships Manager @ I was directly responsible for the engagement and acquisition of identified priority large retailers onto the eBay marketplaces platform.
Some of the Partnership deals I established included Target, The Good Guys, Appliances Online, Wayfair, Victoria’s Basement,Toys R Us, General Pants, Surfstitch, Bonds, Pharmacy Direct and many more....
Key Responsibilities:
- Utilise a consultative approach to sell eBay’s solutions to merchants.
- Work with the Director of Sales to develop and implement a strategic plan to drive eBay’s growth with enterprise merchants.
- Report to eBay Management Team on key partnerships and quarterly planning.
- Negotiate commercial terms, contracts and close deals.
- Relationship owner for senior level executives.
- Implementation and problem resolution.
- Ensure leads are robustly qualified to provide accurate forecast of future scale and opportunity.
- Gain client commitment to deliver competitive selection, pricing and product selection on the eBay platform. From June 2011 to July 2015 (4 years 2 months) Sydney Area, AustraliaFashion Manager @ Employed and sponsored to launch eBay AU Fashion business.
Role:
- Communicate and manage all complex and strategic operational related issues
- Perform proactive management and interaction with strategic portfolio.
- Establish Marketing planning between client and advertising parties.
- Analyse and understand the client and their business, including future business direction.
- Develop strategies to deliver on revenue and other KPIs.
- Prepare and delivers quarterly performance summaries on assigned clients to both internal (eBay) and client executive management team.
- Develop business plans and KPI performance scorecards. From June 2011 to June 2015 (4 years 1 month) Sydney Area, AustraliaAccount Manager @ Sales Area :Scotland & Northern Ireland
Achievements:
10% gross revenue uplift during economic downturn by continuous evaluative monitoring of personal sales targets and objectives From October 2008 to October 2010 (2 years 1 month) Glasgow, United KingdomMenswear Fashion Buyer @ From January 2005 to October 2008 (3 years 10 months) Glasgow, United Kingdom
BSc HONOURS DEGREE, Fashion Design Management with Business, 1st class @ Heriot-Watt University From 2001 to 2005 Bachelor's degree, History & Politics @ University of Strathclyde Laura Doonin is skilled in: Strategy, E-commerce, Fashion, Business Development, Fashion Buying, Retail, Strategic Planning, Marketing Strategy, Management, CRM, Online Advertising, Digital Marketing, Product Management, Sales, Email Marketing, Marketing, Account Management, Online Marketing, New Business Development, Business Strategy, Leadership, Business Planning, Strategic Partnerships, SEO, Merchandising, Negotiation, Start-ups, B2B, Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Software, Budgets, Customer Acquisition, E-business, Market Research, Cross-functional Team..., Lead Generation, Digital Strategy, Sales Process, Multi-channel Marketing, Social Media, Stylists, Product Design, Fashion Design, Fashion Illustration, Fashion Shows
Websites:
http://www.fitnesscatwalk.com.au