About Jake
Hey! I'm Jake and I am looking to be an asset to your business (big or small), project or ad-hoc tasks you wish to outsource. I have great experience working within Procurement - working for a promotional merchandise company in Manchester. Experience in both Buying and Merchandising for global clients such as Mercedes Benz, Google and Intel. I also have worked for a FTSE 250 engineering distribution company where I worked within an Electrification category that oversaw £50m+ sales annually. I can help you with:
🔶 Project Management
🔶 Supplier Sourcing & Outreach
🔶 Data Analysis, Trend Spotting & Assessing Opportunities For Growth
🔶 Market Research, Competitor Analysis & Benchmarking Exercises
🔶 Virtual Assistant and Administrative Tasks
🔶 Social Media Marketing
🔶 Procurement Tasks. Buying & Merchandising Tasks/Reports
I have a vast knowledge and experience working within the procurement industry as a whole, with experience working in the Merchandising, Buying and Category Management areas of global businesses. As well as my corporate professional career I have always worked on social media for local businesses, I have a passion for growing social media accounts through strategic planning, content selection, trend awareness and effective management. If you need an extra pair of hands or a fresh set of eyes to help out with a specific project, task or job you are working on. Drop me a message and let's chat! I am super friendly and always keen to meet new connections and learn even more about our ever-growing industry. Thanks!
English
Native or bilingual
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- BT GROUPTechnical SpecialistDIGITAL AND ITMarch 2019 - June 2020 (1 year and 3 months)Accrington, United KingdomWorked as a Technical Specialist for British Telecoms in Accrington, UK. Experience working in a high pressured environment, solving complex queries, using analytical and problem solving skills. My work revolved around the fixing of customers broadband issues remotely via company systems. First taste of working with complex computer systems and handling customer calls, great experience as it gave me thick skin and a 'can-do' attitude to work - which I still carry with me to this day.
- Brand AdditionJunior MerchandiserLOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAINSeptember 2020 - June 2024 (3 years and 9 months)Manchester, United KingdomStarted working at Brand Addition in Manchester, UK. Brand Addition is a global promotional merchandise company. I started this role after my time at BT, looking to get my foot in the door of the procurement world. I joined the company as a Junior Merchandiser in 2020. In this role I assisted the merchandisers in analysing data, spotting trends and opportunities for growth, data entry, purchase order distribution as well as working on time focused projects for global clients such as Intel, Google and Mercedes Benz Trucks.
- Brand AdditionMerchandiserLOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAINSeptember 2020 - June 2024 (3 years and 9 months)Manchester, United KingdomI got promoted from Junior Merchandiser to Merchandiser within the space of one year. This promotion gave me more responsibility and autonomy over projects. I held regular meetings with stakeholders both internally at Brand Addition as well as with companies which used our services such as Google, Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Mercedes Benz Trucks. This promotion gave me more experience in the Buying/Merchandising world, I took on more independent projects with goods being shipped all around the world, stock being accounted for in warehouses in the UK and EU, developed relationships with suppliers all over the world and increased my data analysis skills.
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Education
- Business Management - 2:1Manchester Metropolitan University2020I attended MMU during the years of 2017-2020, studying Business Management and achieving a high 2:1 grade. My studies were affected by the pandemic which saw me gt my first ever taste of working from home, this was a massive challenge for me at the time as I had always found it more motivating to be around people - being forced into finishing my studies remotely gave me vital skills that I continue to implement to this day in terms of motivating myself and managing time effectively at home.