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| Desired Industry: Apparel/Fashion/Sewing |
SpiderID: 18132 |
| Desired Job Location: chicago, Illinois |
Date Posted: 1/6/2008 |
| Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent |
Availability Date: |
| Desired Wage: 95K |
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U.S. Work Authorization: Yes |
| Job Level: Management (Manager, Director) |
Willing to Travel: Yes, Less Than 25% |
| Highest Degree Attained: Bachelors |
Willing to Relocate: Yes |
Objective:
A position within an organization in the areas of purchasing, planning or procurement, where my technical knowledge and practical experience will be utilized.
Experience:
Sangaree Boutique – Alexandria, VA.
Merchandising Manager
(February 2007-present)
•Travel both domestically and internationally sourcing high end women’s apparel and accessories designers.
•Identify high end women’s apparel and accessories trends ensuring buys are ahead of the curve and provide the right merchandise to the customer base.
•Negotiate payment and shipping terms as well as gain 100% exclusivity of selected brands within the boutique.
•Manage, develop and execute strategic merchandise financial plans and strategies to support the financial growth of the company.
•Coordinate and assign retail pricing for all merchandise; working with senior management in establishing corporate mark-up policies.
•Create promotional strategies to achieve departmental financial objectives.
•Develop detail unit and dollar merchandise assortment plans at the classification level.
•Plan and forecast open to buy, merchandise sales, inventory and gross margins and manage stock to sales ratios and inventory productivity.
•Allocate merchandise to the boutique at the style, color and size level consistent with store needs and in coordination with merchandise plans.
•Analyze and report actual sales results to plan and forecast in-season sales and inventories on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.
•Analyze assortment mix to understand and optimize assortment strengths and weaknesses.
•Responsible for creation of company merchandising guidelines and principles.
•Develop and implement merchandising policies, procedures and process flows from all aspects of the organization, ensuring that operations run at an efficient and effective level.
•Responsible for visual merchandising needs of the boutique – managing windows changes, store floor sets, and ensuring the maintenance of consistent brand messaging.
•Create product style guides to educate boutique staff on product assortments, fabrications, and price points of brands.
•Serve as the primary link between the merchandising department and the retail field, ensuring that merchandising standards are communicated and adhered to.
•Travel to the boutique to conduct merchandising trainings and audits.
•Collaborate with external contacts to ensure customs clearance of international goods.
The Sports Zone - Beltsville, MD.
Buyer
(June 2005-February 2007)
•Responsible for managing a $15 million dollar kids and women’s shoe business.
•Review and recommend new products; evaluate vendor performance on a weekly basis.
•Maintain relationships with existing suppliers and source new suppliers for future products.
•Manage vendor relationships, negotiating shipping terms, allowance, and defective returns.
•Select product lines and sku assortment in line with the overall company strategy.
•Evaluate vendor assortments with the strategy of being first to market on profitable new product lines.
•Continuously challenge vendors to create “special make-ups” solely for The Sports Zone.
•Source new products and review existing product lines to ensure products remain competitive.
•Analyze sales performance and stock level of assortments by store and create solutions to move slow performing merchandise.
•Promote and price product based on sales and market trends.
•Determine what products will be featured in newspaper and insert as a means of increasing sales and profitability.
•Determine product allocation for all 27 stores.
•Communicate with Inventory Management on product purchases and changes in assortments.
•Act as a liaison with other departments within the company to ensure projects are completed in a timely manner.
•Communicate frequently with store management to discuss planning, budgeting, sales promotions and advertising campaigns. Obtain feedback from the individual store's personnel to ensure product/collection supply meets demand.
•Obtain customer feedback on merchandise.
•Train and mentor junior staff.
Hecht's / May Department Stores - Arlington, VA
Assistant Buyer
(July 2000-June 2005)
•Teamed with Buyer in managing a 70 million dollar business, while increasing sales and
profitability.
•Gained buying responsibility for 5 resources, $30 million.
•Projected Open to Buy weekly and recommended strategies to reach monthly stock plans.
•Negotiated pricing and permanent markdowns with vendors to drive sales and reduce inventory.
•Achieved gross margin plans by projecting daily sales and POS markdowns in order to negotiate monthly vendor assistance.
•Planned all aspects of financial budgets, seasonally, including sales, receipts, markdowns, and gross margin.
•Wrote seasonal business plans by detailing class, vendor, and pricing strategies to achieve financial objectives.
•Placed orders and distributed merchandise monthly to 81 doors, in multiple markets, by analyzing store sales trends against stock levels and assortments.
•Ensured accurate and prompt delivery of goods, collaborating with traffic, receiving and distribution centers.
•Created promotional strategies by planning all aspects of catalog and newspaper advertising including concept, layout, pricing, merchandise selection, and proofing. Responsible for largest shoe event for Spring 2004, overseeing all aspects of 20 page color catalog.
•Participated in New York and St. Louis corporate market meetings and vendor appointments.
Sears Roebuck & Co - Silver Spring, MD
National Executive Development Trainee(August 1999-June 2000)
•9-12 month rotation through a full-line department store.
•Managed an array of departments ranging from Cosmetics/Fragrances, Accessories, Fine Jewelry, and Home Fashions with sales totaling $10 million.
•Coached, trained, developed and provided feedback to 40 associates of varying ages.
•Analyzed sales history, market trends and competition. Utilized information to plan assortment and make merchandising recommendations.
•Teamed with Store General Manager and District Merchant to reach specified sales plans.
•Utilized planning systems to efficiently schedule associates around peak selling periods.
Education:
•Currently pursuing a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Maryland, University College. Estimated completion date May 2009.
•Bachelor of Arts, Sociology
(May 1999)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Courses include: Organizational Management, Statistics, Research Methods, Economics.
Skills:
Microsoft Windows Vista, Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Outlook, Lotus Notes, SPSS
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