Cole Wilkinson, event stylist/coordinater

Cole Wilkinson

event stylist/coordinater

Me & Riley Contemporary Events Management

Lieu
Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
Éducation
Diplôme, Spa Specialist Diploma
Expérience
15 years, 2 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :15 years, 2 Mois

event stylist/coordinater à Me & Riley Contemporary Events Management
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • Je travaille ici depuis février 2017

• Liaising with clients and determine event requirements
• Preparing and styling of events as per client`s needs and requests
• Liaising with vendors and suppliers to prepare event items and book services
• Setting and packing up, and cleaning of events
• Office and warehouse maintenance
• Run errands and any out of office requirements
• Additional tasks as per required to ensure successful events and positive team environment

Senior Visual Merchandiser à BinHendi Enterprises
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • juin 2014 à juillet 2016

•liaising with teams such as buying, marketing and management to create design themes and plans, including window and in-store displays and signage •conduct and attend meetings with business colleagues, sales managers and retail managers to discuss sales strategies •identifying and sourcing props, fabrics, hardware and lighting •maintaining a budget and negotiating with suppliers of visual materials for local production and installations costs •attend meetings at H.O with managers to ensure that the Fashion division is updates •working with architectural features and VM props of stores to maximize the available space •communicate visual guidelines including principles layout, visual dressings and signage •assembling or dismantling visual displays in windows or in-store •assisting, leading and motivating teams and colleagues to complete displays to tight deadlines •seeking feedback from colleagues and management on the visual impact of displays and implementing changes •plan the store display for the year, creating visual plans and buying the appropriate models, props, equipment and signage, out-sourcing and ordering stationary and equipment •prepare presentations of visual concepts, for new ideas, projects in process and for completed assignments, taking on the entire installation projects from start to finish •communicating with brand principles to ensure our stores are aligned with brand expectations

commercial merchandizer à Al Tayer Insignia
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • mai 2013 à mai 2014

*Merchandise and display collections on the floor, ensuring that brand standards are maintained
*Ensure merchandise has been steamed, properly tagged and priced as per guidelines
*Help maintain visual merchandise guidelines and standards throughout the store
*Work with VM Management to ensure store and brand standards are executed on floor and understood by sales team
*Implement store signage programs according to commercial guidelines
*Support store promotions and sales events
*Ensure that stock room assistants maintain and organize the stockrooms as per company standards
*Monitor slow and fast sellers and communicate observations to the visual merchandiser with suggestions and recommendations for appropriate actions
*Attend training sessions conducted by buyers to ensure that display standards are maintained
*Support the stock takes for the store

sales consultant à Al Tayer Insignia
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • décembre 2009 à avril 2013

*listening to customer requirements and presenting appropriately to make a sale
*aiming to meet or exceed sales targets
*feed back for buying trends to buyers and frontline management
greeting them, offering them assistance
*suggest and advise customers by providing information on products
*help customer make selections by building customer confidence, offering suggestions and opinions.
*create & update personal customer profile records
* totaling purchases and processing payments

customer consultant à Croft & Co
  • Afrique du Sud
  • mai 2008 à juillet 2009

*basic boutique operations
*welcome customers by greeting and offering assistance
*advise customers by providing information on products
*create or update store customer profile records
*total purchases and process payments
*stock counts

Éducation

Diplôme, Spa Specialist Diploma
  • à Healing Hands International Massage Academy
  • décembre 2006

Spa therapies, spa management and development

Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, matric certificate (grade 12)
  • à King Edward VII School
  • décembre 2002

Matric certificate

Specialties & Skills

Visual Concepts
Achieving Results
Customer Driven
Initiator
Influential
effective communication skills
computer literate
customer service
visual merchandising
organisational skills
time management

Langues

Anglais
Expert
Afrikaans
Débutant
Arabe
Débutant

Loisirs

  • movies/cinema
    its a way of cutting off from the world for a bit, helps with relaxation
  • listening to music
    this helps with paying attention, my music blocks out distractions