Rebekah Beck has over 10 years of experience in fashion design, retail buying, and merchandising. She holds a Diploma in Fashion Design and Retail Buying from Damelin College. Her work experience includes positions as a Buyer for POCO, Senior Import Merchandiser for DIREKSHINZ, and Key Account Manager for House of Busby. She has strong skills in product range development, pricing, promotions, and supplier relationship management.

1. Curriculum Vitae
Personal Details
Name: Rebekah Beck
ID: 840616 0015 088
Contact Details: +27 11 805 5286
+27 71 889 5875
Language Spoken: English (speak, write & read)
Afrikaans (speak, write & read)
Drivers License: Code 8, own car
Status: Married (13 March 2010)
Educational Experience
Tertiary Education
Institution: Damelin College, Centurion
Qualification: Diploma in Fashion Design and Retail
Buying
Year Completed: 2006
Awarded: Top student overall with UK Poole
Certificate
Achieved 6 distinctions in final year
Finalist in Bridal Africa 2006
Finalist in Star Newspaper Fashion Competition 2006
Secondary Education
Highest standard passed: Matric
Year obtained: 2002
Institution: Pro Arte Alphen Park High School
Awarded: Distinction in Ballet Practical, Ballet Theory
and Mathematics
Obtained colours in Ballet and received top student for
musicality and theory
Student leadership: Ballet student council from Grade 9-11
Head of Ballet Council in Matric

2. Work Experience
Company: POCO (PTY) LTD
Nature of business: Retailer
Period employed: April 2014 - current
Position Held: Buyer
Duties:
• Define the Product range:
o Define, select monitor and control the product range.
o Ensure that the Company range is adapted to the SA market
o Stock management: manage slow moving and promotional stock
o Plan and supervise the sourcing strategy
• Define, Develop and Monitor the pricing policy
o determine selling price, margins, discounts and stock levels
• Monitor promotional activities
o Ensure compliance with brand strategies and guidelines.
o Prepare stock forecast and sales projections and impacts on margins
• Store Merchandising
o Communicate and assess needs of Store Managers with regards to the range definition and
merchandising standards
o Establish initial orders and co-ordinate product ranges for new Store openings and product /
new collection launches
• Contact Suppliers
o Build relationships and negotiate terms and manage supplier agreements
o Measure supplier performance and profitability of products
Company: DIREKSHINZ (PTY) LTD
Nature of business: Retail suppliers
Period employed: May 2012 – August 2013
Position Held: Senior Import Merchandiser
Duties:
1. Liaising and negotiating with customers
2. Liaising and negotiating with overseas factories with regards to product, price, quality & delivery
3. Developing and sourcing of new products
4. Research local & International trends
5. Travel overseas to attend trade fairs
6. Travel overseas to identify trends and select suitable products if required by the company
7. Presentations and quotations of new products to customers including power point presentations
8. Responsible for checking and signing off all product costing’s and ensuring company’s gross profit
margins are kept
9. Signing and checking customer orders
10. Placing purchase orders and signing sales contracts with overseas factories
11. Order tracking and ensuring on time supplier shipment
12. Ensuring on time customer delivery
13. Analysis of orders with excel spread sheets and administration of orders from placement to final
customer delivery including quality control ( sample approval)
14. Management of pre-production samples through to production approval within company policy
and procedures
15. Quality control specifications

3. 16. Set a good example by following company policy and procedure in all respects
17. Advise the directors of anything that could have an adverse effect on the business
18. A representative of the company, always maintain a professional image whilst in the office or
travelling
19. Ad hoc Functions
Company: House of Busby (PTY) LTD
Nature of business: Retail suppliers
Period employed: August 2010 – April 2012
Position Held: Key Account Manager
Duties:
1. Teamwork and internal and external communication
2. Range Building and Presentation
• To plan & develop new ranges by customer
• Encompass a ‘good, better, best’ principal within each range.
• Range presentations, both externally & internally.
• Close analysis of development to sales ratio.
3. Sales
• To pro-actively drive sales.
• To achieve sales budgets & budgeted GP.
• Confirmation of all aspects related to orders placed.
• Continually striving to acquire new accounts.
• Furthermore, to actively manage & clear ageing stock.
4. Customers
• Strive to maintain current customer base.
• Where suitable, introduce other areas of business within the organization, to current
customers.
• Continuously target & develop new customers.
• Always maintain a high level of professionalism & efficiency with customers.
• Store visits & competitive shopping.
5. Analysis
• ‘Post Seasonal Analysis’, bi-annually
• Sales Forecasts
• Yearly Budgets
Company: Gicanie Holdings (PTY) LTD
Nature of business: Retail suppliers
Period employed: August 2007 – July 2010
Position Held: Designer and Marketer
Duties:
1. General office admin
2. Monitor progress of orders from time of receipt until delivery
3. To design new styles of garments on Coral Draw X4 and Adobe Photoshop
4. To communicate and negotiate with customers as well as suppliers
5. To visit and sell new styles of garments to customers
6. To monitor stock levels with the warehouse
7. To travel locally and internationally
8. To acquire new trends and fashions from all necessary sources
9. To purchase products from local retailers in order to do competitive analysis on various local retail
stores
Training through company: Corel Draw X4 course completed in clothing design

4. Company: Thornlea B&B
Nature of business: Bed and Breakfast, accommodation
Period employed: January 2007 – July 2007
Position Held: Manager
Duties:
1. Check in and check out guests
2. Oversee all staff, ensuring the rooms are kept in excellent condition
3. Re-stock all bar fridges
4. Prepare the menus for all meals and oversee the preparation of the food
5. Invoice all guests accordingly
6. General office admin
7. Purchase all food, toiletries etc required
8. Transfer guests where ever required
Company: BPAG (PTY) LTD
Nature of business: Accountancy firm
Period employed: June 2005 – December 2005
Position Held: Receptionist (part time)
Duties:
1. General office admin
2. Work switch board
3. Capture clients on all necessary internal programmes
4. Update all programmes
5. Change all existing files to new filing system and archive all old files
Company: Foschini, Centurion
Nature of business: Retail clothing store
Period employed: December 2003 – April 2004
Position Held: POS – casual worker
Duties:
1. Work behind the cash teller
2. Help customers make purchases
3. Encourage customers to open accounts
4. Ensure the store is kept clean as well as my work station at all times
5. Cash up and balance the money received in my till at the close of day
6. Stock take
Company: Foschini, Menlyn
Nature of business: Retail clothing store
Period employed: March 2002 – November 2003
Position Held: POS – casual worker
Duties:
1. Work behind the cash teller
2. Selling of jewellery
3. Help customers make purchases
4. Encourage customers to open accounts
5. Ensure the store is kept clean as well as my work station at all times
6. Cash up and balance the money received in my till at the close of day
7. Stock take