so today was my first day in the head office at BHS with the kidsnightwear and essential wear buyers!!
After a quick inductionfrom hr i was handed over to Santosh whos head of buying in this department. She quickly went through what they do as buyers, the brands which are at BHS: Tammy, Duck and Dodge, Sweet millie, bambini and introduced me to the team and the merchandising team.
I've already realised that this placement is going to be more hectic then my Women and Home one as i was given 4 completely different tasks in the first day with lots of multitasking-eek!!
Task 1: this was easy actualy.It was just labeling up the nightwear samples for different sections-fastest sellers,new reactions and slowest.
Task 2 :was going into the cupboard to find more samples matching up the style code on the sheet and the swing tag. These were needed for a meeting at 1.30, and even though they were ment to all be there, they seemed to be in different sections and over the department.
Anyways, once emma and i had found them they had to be hung up on the racks in season.
Task 3: sooooooooo boring!!! Basically loads of samples come in with the fabric, prints, colour samples etc and these are all filed into season, gender and supplier e.g. Aykroyds, fielding.
But of course loads had been taken out of the a/w folders and not put back in and s/s10 hadnt been even started.
So the rest of the day was preety much spent firstly filing the a/w back into the folders, then printing off labels for all the new samples, sticking them on folders and then putting the samples in.(you have to look at the style code to know where they go)
Sounds like im being a drama queen but it took forever because we ran out of folders so i had to swap other samples over and there were LOADS!Oh and i have to finish it tomorrow!The joys of being a work experience girl.
Task 3/4:i multitasked 3 with this one. The buying and merchandising team were having their weekly meeting on last weeks weaknesses and strengths so I got to sit in on this. Quite alot of it went over my head i have to admit but it was interesting to see how tghey worked together, what sort of styles were popular, and how they thought about what to spend the'r money on.
BTW i dont think mr men for older boys was a very good idea!
oh and finaly i had to help santosh sort dressing gowns into month gender and age ready for a meeting tomorrow.
Think i left the office at 5.30 and got home at 7!!!!im soooo exhausted!!think il just be a student for life!!!
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