Kelly Tavora

Fully qualified personal stylist graduated from the London College of Style, with more than 3 years of experience. Focused on building a loyal client base by developing and enhancing their personal style. Friendly, discreet professional who excels at mixing and matching colours, advising on styles to best suit clients' style personality, editing wardrobe and shopping the best outfits based on clients' preferences.

January 2019 to Current

Personal Stylist and Colour Consultant Self employed, London, London

• Set up a personal stylist business from scratch.
• Started an Instagram account in 2019, that grew from zero to over 8k followers, to talk about personal styling and to teach women dressing strategies.
• Developed and executed marketing strategies to grow the clientele.
• Developed own colour chart to offer to clients after a personal colour analysis session.
• Offered customized personal styling services and provided style-related advice to clients.
• Suggested, procured outfits based on clients' preferences.
• Carefully assessed client's current wardrobe style to help create wardrobe improvements and seasonal upgrades.
• Read magazines, blogs, attended fashion shows and networking events to continue to stay up-to-date on latest and upcoming fashion trends.
• Built and maintained positive business relationship with all costumers and sales advisors.

Buyers Daju Department Store, Curitiba, Brazil

• Responsible for the Utilities Department.
• Improved the results through planning and restructuring the process flow.
• Prepared instructions and delivered training for the sales team on the ground.
• Sourced new vendors for purchasing needs.
• Developed and managed cost reduction and waste elimination policies.
• Monitored weekly, monthly and quarterly achievement goals.
• Determined recurring business needs and maintained necessary inventory levels.

Administrator Tavora Planned Furniture, Curitiba, Brazil

• Outlined detailed business plan, drafted mission statement and defined corporate vision.
• Maintained accurate records for operations, income and expenses.
• Managed financial functions such as operations budgeting, accounts payable and accounts receivable.
• Owned a small company specialising in defining lay-out, selection of furniture and installation.
• Managed clients' portfolio and maintained good relationships with furniture and service providers.
• Outlined detailed business plan, drafted mission statement and defined corporate vision.

Import and Export Analyst Kuhn Brazil, Curitiba, Brazil

• Mid-size company in São José dos Pinhais (Brazil), Manufacturer of agricultural machinery with Yearly Revenue around 800Million Pounds, 5.200 employees.
• Exported directly and through trading companies.
• Acted on documentation analysis, negotiated sea, air and road freights.
• Classified goods.
• Ensured licences and monitored shipments.
• Good knowledge of INCOTERMS.
• Prepared export documentation and managed the exportation of agricultural machinery and parts for customers in South America, Africa and Europe.
• Achieved the optimization of the phases of export process of the company, reducing delivery lead-time to 15 days (20%) by reducing the mistakes regarding technical specifications for export documentation, and packaging mistakes that impacted on the delivery time and customer satisfaction.
• Produced an instruction manual outlining the main exportation process steps to be followed by all departments involved in the export process. These instructions were also used to train staff.

Import and Export Analyst Faurecia Automotive do Brasil Ltda , Curitiba, Brazil

• Contacted suppliers, brokers, and freight forwarders within the car industry to coordinate import and export shipments. Ensured shipments cleared on time, avoiding extra storage costs and fees. Required import licenses when it was necessary. Worked as team with other departments to understand their needs and provide guidance on what would be the best way to import or export an item.
• Prepared export / import documentation.
• Followed-up on commercial and logistic operations with service providers according to contracts to avoid payment of Demurrage due to process irregularities.
• Ran analysis and technical support to identify best cost options for import shipping arrangements to optimize importation of goods.

2021

Short course Cool Hunting Fashion 

London College of Fashion, London

Short Course Personal Styling Diploma 

London College of Style, London

Short Course Colour analysis 

London College of Style, London

Master of Business Administration Master of Commercial Management 

Economics School at Porto University, Porto - Portugal

Diploma of Higher Education International Business

Unicemp, Curitiba - Brazil