sudesh.pawaar@gmail.com

I have had over 20 years experience with luxury product from International Cosmetics brands to International Clothing, Home and General Merchandise brands.

I am a career retailer, (UK Citizen), having started at the real grass roots at J Sainsbury and then onto Iceland Foods and Lidl (all in the UK).
Having married a South African, I relocated to South Africa where I spent 10 years with the premier quality food, clothing, beauty and general merchandise retailer (Woolworths) and thereafter I was headhunted and spent the next 11 years with the largest clothing, cosmetics and General merchandise retailer in SA (Edgars).
After being headhunted again, I spent the next 2 years as the Head of Operations / Country Director of Pandora Jewellery SA, where I was completely accountable for the entire business in South Africa reporting into Milan, Italy.
Reporting into me were: Retail Operations, Marketing & VM, HR & Payroll, eCommerce, Sales Support ( local and rest of Africa), Training, Finance (complete P&L accountability) & Admin.

After some changes in structure I relocated back to the East Coast of SA where my family is located and to focus on cultivating my property portfolio.

I am now looking for a new role and would love an opportunity to continue my career in a corporate retail environment.

I am willing to relocate myself for the right role.
I have a great deal of value to add and have vast experience in all areas of retail from shop floor to Executive Leadership.
I have run flagship stores for both Woolworths and Edgars, managing stores over 100,000m2 and teams of over 2000 employees.
I have led Regions and Divisions with turnovers in excess of R1 billion per annum and I have led and realigned the entire Pandora Jewellery Business in South Africa.