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Marketing/merchandising Manager Ecommerce
Managed Appliance Category for all sales channels, including online, free standing store and call center - valued at $150 Million.
Key responsibilities and accomplishments include:
- Drove top line sales growth by 10% within first 6 months by tailoring product mix to customer segments and creating promotional campaigns.
- Introduced new refrigeration products onto sight by working with vendors in negotiation of pricing and content team to implement persuasive marketing content & campaigns
- Conducted weekly analysis of sales trends to understand customer purchasing behavior and determine product exit / enhancement strategies.
- Provided forecasting each month and communicated product inventory needs to vendors
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Liberal Arts
Business Management
Merchandising Manager
Oversee merchandise presentation and ensure all daily operations are consistent with bookselling culture. Assist store management in maintaining a profitable store by helping booksellers deliver superior customer service.
- Assist in the interviewing, training, development, conflict resolution, evaluation, termination, of booksellers.
- Responsible for the store and staff when fulfilling the role of manager-on-duty.
- Coach and Counsel Booksellers, prepare and deliver performance reviews, enforce proper loss prevention procedures.
- Reduced Loss by 10 % by implementing better customer service and cost reduction strategies.
- Increased subject area sales by 5% with better marketing standards.
- Increased Memberships sales by 10% with enhanced customer service leadership.
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Zoology
Merchandising Manager
Functioned as central receiver of new jewelry for several stores, including inventory upkeep, assigning inventory numbers and formulating descriptions of pieces. Further receiving duties consisted of coding merchandise correctly and distributing it to individual stores.
- Microsoft Word: Authored appraisals, thank you notes, and miscellaneous business correspondence
- Microsoft Excel: Created purchase orders; prepared analysis reports and interpreted reports for inventory control
- Served as back up for IT manager, troubleshooting various computer issues
- Assisted company accounting department with reconciliation, matching, and other inventory and accounts payable related questions
- Took jewelry photos and touched up in Photoshop for website use
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Divisional Merchandising Manager, Outlet Merchandising
Managed a $120.0M division which includes men's, women's and accessories product lines.
- Responsible for creation, implementation, and execution of marketing concepts, promotions and strategies across both brick and mortar and e-commerce channels (factory online) as well as social media to drive GMROI of outlet division.
- Responsible for overseeing the concept, design, execution and development of outlet-specific product which represented around 90% of the assortment.
- Identified and successfully executed new market share opportunities which did not exist for the outlet division such as men's and women's outerwear (+100% comp), woven bottoms and tops (+50% comp) and plus sizes which will be introduced for the Spring 2012 season.
- Developed and managed a team of nine cross functional associates including product development, planning, allocation and merchandising teams.
- Played an integral role in the re-launch of the outlet division which included re-merchandising the line (formerly the channel would receive 90% of their product from retail verses now only 10% which has vastly improved the margin), changing the visual displays of our stores, creating new promotional cadences, creating new pricing architectures for the product, etc.
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Special And Elementary Education
Merchandising Manager
Prepared detailed analysis, scheduled meetings to select product, worked with outside vendors to negotiate pricing, wrote purchase orders, built data for internal systems, wrote informational materials, trained customer service staff in new product
- Coordinated internal teams to produce, assemble, assign and ship albums
- Reviewed and met with design and merchandising teams to go over priority of tasks on a weekly basis or daily
- Wrote reviews and handled any personnel issues
- Participated on Management and Marketing Teams giving input on upcoming projects, event and policies. Prepared and presented ideas.
- Evaluated UPS and FedEx contracts. Met with account executives and coordinated any special requests or needs.
- Prepared material and occasionally attended trade shows for our industry
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Double
Merchandising Manager
Curated, managed, and merchandised the Men's Gift segment with a specialty and focus on consumer electronics, men's lifestyle products and outdoor recreation gear
- Led all gifting segments in revenue generation and numerous key conversion metrics
- Wrote, produced and published gift-related content for [company name] content site GiftRap
- Crafted influential, innovative and effective social media content and strategies
- Managed brand email marketing initiatives including seasonal email campaigns and partnership email promotions
- Maintained ongoing communication with brands, agencies, and retailers to curate relevant gift selections and trend-forward content
- Professionally trained, [company name] media spokesman with television, radio and print media experience
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Fashion Merchandising
Merchandising Manager
Developed saleable and profitable assortments from concept and color through production by being the liaison between design, production, and sales. Maintained price points, trends, and marginal goals while developing a cohesive coordinated collection.
- Implemented weekly meetings with design and production to discuss style status, fabric development, and coordination of tops to bottoms
- Restructured pricing strategies for specific product categories and identified margin building opportunities
- Collaborated with production in costing, placing seasonal buys, chases, liabilities and mode of shipping while maintaining marginal goals
- Presented the final line to sales team and president at the opening of every market
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Education
Education Major / Business Minor
Sr Merchandising Manager, DMM
- Managed merchandising team of five, sales results and timelines.
- Established and implemented retail strategies and processes to achieve key performance indicators including revenue, margin, shipping funding, and promotional activities.
- Directed product selection, sales goals, promotional activity, vendor funding, product marketing, and site merchandising.
- Drove category sales increase 137% by improving supplier sourcing, assortment and marketing.
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Music Education
Merchandising Manager
Managed daily reconciliation by opening and closing the register
- Identified core customer base and influenced product assortment to fulfill their needs
- Contributed to the success of the business by tracking fashion trends, market trends, and maintaining completive analysis documents
- Created and maintained product knowledge documents and used this information to educate customers thus increasing sales and create repeat customers
- Developed window and internal displays driven on business needs
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High School Diploma
Jewelry Merchandising Manager
Promotion included head of mail center which included negotiating contracts for USPS and UPS
- Promoted to department head which handled national purchasing and national services
- with jewelry merchandising and product design
- Created training program to support jewelry sales
- Secured pricing for 850 locations
- Negotiated contracts for national services such as mat and linen service, drinking water service, shred service, etc.
- Supported 850 locations with direct customer service
- Managed 5 direct reports
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Merchandising Manager
Achieved $26 million in revenue from locations of direct responsibility.
- Participated with the procurement team in the development of new product lines through brainstorm sessions, work sessions, and line reviews, presenting new ideas or product placement strategies based on current fashion/market trends.
- Assisted the procurement team in the planning/mapping of store sets, refreshes, or seasonal floor set changes.
- Planed space allocation per category in locations of direct responsibility.
- Communicated store needs, or requests for presentation or assortment changes to the procurement team.
- Analyzed key items for productivity in locations, providing direction for positioning to the operations teams.
- Analyzed and determined product sales trend and how it relates to program placement.
- Directed and assisted in all floor sets by defining merchandise presentation, store sets, resets and location refreshes.
- Directed and managed the flow of inventory in locations supporting 12,000 various skus.
- Trained and developed all levels of management by providing a comprehensive introduction to JDA and the functions as they relate to the level of the individual.
- Managed the merchandising strategy for special events, event set up and contracting for concessionaires with combined annual revenue of $4 million.
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Fashion Merchandising Management
Assistant Visual Merchandising Manager
Supported management of a high-end retail clothing store targeting young, hip, urban women and men with annual sales of $9M.
- Assisted with day-to-day operational direction including payroll, recruiting, employee scheduling, inventory, loss prevention, administration, sales reporting and forecasting.
- Managed visual merchandising to maintain corporate image, and boost customer traffic.
- Planned and executed weekly, daily, and monthly floor changes alongside head visual merchandiser at multiple district stores.
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Computer Science And Business Management
Security+ Ceritification
Sales and Merchandising Manager
Manage merchandising initiatives, resource planning and developing growth strategies.
- Direct leadership of multiple departments
- Improved revenue results in all areas of the business
- Developed sales and operational strategies to reduce inventory losses
- Selected to attend [company name] University training
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Advertising Design
Regional Merchandising Manager
Managed merchandising and creative presentations for world flagship $68M region.
- Partnered with Regional Vice President and Regional Sales Manager to ensure store sales profitability.
- Collaborated with Regional Operations Manager to analyze and control operational expenses.
- Partnered with Store Managers to review sales and formulate merchandising plans that enhanced profitability.
- Recruited and hired visual managers and visual merchandisers.
- Directed and trained Store Managers, visual merchandisers and support staffs to create and maintain
- Conferred with merchants to customize assortments that target customer buying trends.
- Conducted store visits and created merchandising strategies that increased sales.
- Directed store teams to maintain company standards and brand integrity.
- Directed and provided support for new store openings and renovations.
- Provided creative direction and support for corporate projects and initiatives.
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Bachelor of Arts
Accessory Merchandising Manager
Leading the overall communications, online, marketing and merchandising efforts of the organization's accessory business. Responsible for identifying key areas of opportunity and establishing channels in emerging markets such as social media and portable technologies to capitalize on unmet demand. Develops and maintains both internal and external websites. Scripts and manages video production for short film segments to be used for micro-sites and web-based video sites such as YouTube and Vimeo.
- Leading effort to combine and revamp overall communication strategy into a more cohesive platform.
- Serving as primary copywriter on marketing and promotional campaigns for all accessory business and product launches.
- Oversaw the launch of an integrated, multi-channel web, catalog and direct marketing campaign that propelled accessory sales above projected levels by 5%.
- Assumed lead role in coordinating with third-party marketing firms to develop and roll out cutting-edge marketing campaigns focusing on new technologies such as smartphone applications.
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Information Technology And Business Administration
Merchandising Manager
Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time and with the desired results.
- Supervised daily operations, including 30 personnel a crossed three departments, staff training, scheduling, problem resolution, payroll, customer service, inventory, and loss control.
- Met pre-determined sales goals while keeping the store and stock room clean and organized.
- Increased efficiency of receiving 2400 boxes on truck each week from 4-5 days to shelves down to 48 Hours to shelves without hiring more associates.
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Communication Studies
Assistant Sales and Merchandising Manager
Responsible for $12M in annual Floral sales for 77 stores
- Strategically managed the Floral category to increase sales, gross dollars, and market share versus prior year to meet or exceed projected numbers through ad and promotional planning
- Met with vendors on a consistent basis for ad planning, deal negotiation and business updates.
- Created and implemented pricing, promotions and assortments for Floral, based on detailed analysis of past performance and results, industry best practices, and consumer trends
- Standardized best practices to promote efficient processes
- Coordinated and communicated between stores, merchandising and other departments in the division.
- Conducted Floral Manager's conference call weekly for 77 Managers
- Extracted scan based data from internal systems to review category performance, pre and post analysis of promoted items
- Maintained department financial records, to include ad planning and forecasting
- Ad proofed weekly for all promotional copy
- Processed all vendor funding for Produce. Funding provided for ads, price cuts new items etc. Verified accuracy in funding amount and dates submitted
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Education And Skills
Fashion Merchandising/marketing Program
Visual Merchandising Manager
Monitored overall store environment as it relates to customer experiences and ensured concerns were
appropriately elevated for resolution.
- Directed and assisted in merchandise shops set up, holiday installation, and supervised floor moves.
- Planned and coordinated execution and recovery with store leadership and marketing director to maximize
- Partnered with GM and corporate visual department to interpret and customize visual direction.
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Sociology
Assistant Merchandising Manager
Established partnerships with over 800 domestic and international vendors, increasing sales by 50% with approximately 60% margins in one year.
- Worked with Creative Director in analyzing emerging styles, trends and vendor close outs, in order to schedule and purchase merchandise for future homepage content.
- Curated, budgeted, and managed 7 Fancy celebrity subscription boxes, totaling 8,000 monthly customers- entailed
- Streamlined communication between Customer Service, Merchandising Department and logistics center for all
- Coordinated with FedEx and logistics center on shipment scheduling, identifying missing packages, incorrect items and damaged products from partners to ensure all goods were shipped to the customer within the estimated ship
- Built framework for Accounting Department, and assisted in the scheduling of payment remittance to vendors on all outstanding invoices.
- Served as lead liaison between legal counsel and more than 70 vendors regarding Fancy's Terms and Agreement, to ensure all Fancy partners reviewed, submitted feedback and approved contracts in a timely manner.
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English
Visual Merchandising Manager
- Responsible for all visual aspects for a $46+ million store
- Executed all corporately communicated visual directions and seasonal set-ups in a creative and timely manner, driving
- Effectively hired and managed a full-time staff, temporary holiday staff, and worked closely with the in-store Executive Team
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Bachelor of Arts
Visual Merchandising Manager/assistant Store Manager
- Executed time sensitive directives sent from Visual Merchandising Team
- Placed new product to optimize visibility and sales
- Conducted walkthroughs with members of corporate to discuss placement and buy for the season
- Directed sales associates on visual standards and established new practices to maintain these expectations
- Prepared reports detailing performance of product categories for weekly meeting with store manager
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Business Management
Master of Business Administration
Executive Logistics & Merchandising Manager
- [company name] for timely execution of replenishment, pricing, presentation, and backroom processes
- Led Safety culture for the building and district by conducting monthly safety meetings with store and district leadership, which decreased safety incidents by 20% in 2013.
- Led major workflow transition for entire store to increase productivity and decrease expenses by creating actions plans, which drove brand metrics to maintain payroll allotments.
- Drive sales by overseeing the merchandising of 6 departments with sales ranging from $2 - $9 million, seeing a year end increase of 2.5%.
- Partner with distribution center to review, adjust, and schedule all shipping orders to match replenishment requirements
- Direct liaison between store, group, and corporate business partners.
- Forecasted weekly payroll allocations which decreased payroll expense by 25% to support EBIT
- Set staffing needs, interviewed, coached, and delivered performance reviews monthly for 15 supervisors and 150 employees.
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Fashion Design
Fashion Design & Merchandising
Merchandising Manager
- Planned and coordinated monthly overnight floor sets, including elaborate, labor-intensive window display installations.
- Maintained flawless store appearance through training and development of associates in visual standards.
- Implemented new store promotions and supervised the installation of all in-store marketing materials.
- Managed product inventory levels and provided customer feedback to the Store Director.
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Merchandising Manager
Responsible for a wide variety of operations and administrative support functions across multiple departments.
- Prepared daily departmental communications and schedules, developed marketing and training materials,
- Developed and implemented performance incentive plans, customer service programs and training events.
- Worked with corporate offices in administering quality and compliance programs, coordinating sales and marketing initiatives, implementing merchandising strategies and improving business performance.
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Merchandising And Consumer Affairs
Merchandising Manager
- Arranged floor display layouts, paint colors, and moves for the entire store
- Selected merchandise and accessories
- Monitored sales of accessories and future accessory needs
- Assisted in the execution of store events
- Managed and directed multiple employees
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Marketing / Sales Management
Marketing
Visual Merchandising Manager
Held responsibility for visual merchandising, training, product mix and vendor relations, successfully developing strategic plans that directly impacted sales and the achievement of company goals.
- Oversaw a team of Merchandise Enthusiasts, delivering decisive leadership, training, motivating and monitoring of performance to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Effectively utilized high-level project management skills and marketing acumen to analyze business metrics and create strategic plans.
- Competently managed all aspects of day-to-day business including sales goals, schedules, company initiatives, KPI monitoring, and customer service.
- Partnered with S.A. Elite Regional Visual Coordinator and corporate partners to ensure sales floor and stock rooms complied with store and corporate requirements.
- Built excellent customer relations by articulating individual needs, advising on products and identifying additional sales opportunities.
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Associate of Science
Merchandising Manager
Coached associates to anticipate customer needs
- Collaborate with co-workers and management to achieve a shared goal
- Empowered associates to achieve their very best performance through motivation and leading by example
- Contributed and lived the culture through my behavior, to display my passion and commitment to the brand
- Focused on store priorities and was able to construct pertinent timelines
- Embraced change, adapted, and actively learned new concepts in management
- Balanced short and long-term goals
- Looked for new opportunities to improve current performance
- Demonstrated a high level of personal ownership over visual merchandising
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English
Merchandising Manager
Managed 41 sales associates, counted safe and registers down, and trained new hires.
- Unloaded merchandise and stocked merchandise in a timely fashion.
- Quickly and effectively solved customer challenges.
- Maintained quality control/satisfaction records, constantly seeking new ways to improve customer service.
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High School Diploma
Associate of Science
Elementary Education
Store Merchandising Manager
Priced merchandise, stocked shelves and took inventory of supplies.
- Stocked and replenished merchandise according to store merchandising layouts.
- Maintained necessary level of communications between shifts.
- Supervised a team of 6 team leads and 25-30 associates.
- Established operational objectives and work plans and delegated assignments to subordinate managers.
- Provided coaching, mentoring, and consultation to staff to enhance staff development.
- Directed all phases of merchandising projects, from beginning to end.
- Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated them to other team members.
- Answered questions regarding the store and its merchandise.
- Developed positive customer relationships through friendly greetings and excellent service.
- Trained and served as a peer coach for new sales associates.
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Retailing
Marketing
Merchandising Manager
Systematize the distribution of $4.4M in transactional sales
- Manage $3.9M of procurement/shipped goods.
- Execute a 40% increase of shipped goods year over year.
- Coordinate merchandise and supply chain from front-end consignors to back-end buyers
- Lead a team of 4, increased productivity 40% year over year.
- Monitor customer retention.
- Analyze unsold items and sales reporting to eliminate low selling merchandise.
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History
Merchandising Manager
Responsible for customer satisfaction through focused service and product knowledge.
- Merchandised departments in accordance to company guidelines and customer trends.
- Trained employees and staffed departments to meet customer needs.
- Made and enforced inventory control guidelines to minimize shrink.
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Pharmacy Technician
Education
Assistant Merchandising Manager
Demonstrated advanced skills in driving and producing results by performing leadership responsibilities with competence and maintaining a visually enticing store that is neat, clean, and organized
- Provided effective leadership to store associates in the areas of visual merchandising, sales, cashiering, customer service, store maintenance, and loss prevention in support of day-to-day operations
- Highly effective in achieving sales and profit goals, meeting deadlines, promoting company initiatives, and supervising and developing a motivated sales staff
- Collaborated with management team in orchestrating all aspects of merchandising, stock availability, profit protection, sales, forecasting, analyzing reports and general day-to-day management of the store
- Ensured communications to team members was timely and clear, and created a team environment that fostered partnership, innovation, and continuous process improvement
- Worked closely with senior leadership in conducting comprehensive inventory management functions
- Developed and implemented age appropriate curriculum, materials, and recreational activities to enhance the cognitive, social, physical and emotional development of children ages 3-4 years old
- Ensured goals and objectives covering areas of physical, emotional, social, and cognitive developmental expectations were incorporated in each curriculum framework
- Continuously encouraged parent involvement in all children's programs
- Collaborated with direct care staff in specific activity plan development, activity individualization, and evaluation of children's developmental progress
- Worked closely with management in the application of thorough environmental and program assessment instruments such as the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale and child abuse probability assessments
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Journalism And Mass Communications
Content/merchandising Manager
- Provided leadership for display projects, defining objectives and expectations, overseeing creative activities, delivering assets for production, and approving final content.
- Maintained relationships with product managers, trade marketing managers, event planners, public relations professionals, and direct mail teams for accurate, effective, and timely promotion of display products.
- Managed editorial calendar for display products, spotlighting products for seasonality, new launches, and re-launches.
- Conceptualized, edited, and finalized display content for site, newsletters, news stories, and promotional spots.
- Worked with analytics team to measure and improve performance of content in promotions and editorial placements.
- During site redesign, determined most effective placement of display categories, UI text and content across multiple pages for best customer experience and timely merchandising of opportunities.
- Managed SEO initiative to identify top keywords for display categories and insert within metadata and on-page copy for improved organic search results.
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Management
Assistant Lingerie Merchandising Manager
Assisted department manager in achieving department volume and productivity goals by developing and executing a business plan
- Used key metrics to identify opportunities and drive volume
- Coached salespeople to meet and exceed personal selling goals
- Ensured merchandising and presentation standards were met
- Ensured accurate inventory management and achieved shrinkage goals
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Business Management
Interdisciplinary Social Science
Visual Merchandising Manager
Support sales growth through creative merchandise presentations, seasonal fashion trend statements, three-dimensional visual presentations, promotional events, corporate shop concepts and prototypes.
- Partnered with store executive team to analyze and interpret business reports, which resulted in a seven percent and eight percent comp. sales growth over each previous year in a duel box store.
- Attained the number three position in the region for "Magic" with a score of 87 percent in 2013.
- Worked with the Merchandising Team Managers to coordinate selling floor fixture and merchandise moves to capitalize on business strengths or adjust for sales deficiencies.
- Trained store management, support team, and sales associates on merchandising standards, proper fixture utilization and visual techniques.
- Partnered with District Team on departmental moves.
- Worked with District Director of Visual, regional facilities team, and Construction teams to coordinate partial in-store remodels.
- Assisted in multiple store preparation for corporate visits and took part in the regional team that prepared stores for the Executive Committee meetings, which included CEO Terry Lundgren.
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Business
Visual Merchandising Manager
- Designed and produced specialty fixtures and displays with a budget of up to 30K.
- Worked closely with [company name] buyers on product placement and development.
- Highly involved with vendor community to elevate brand identity within the parameters of [company name] standards.
- Partnered with PR department to execute several high profile celebrity appearances and in-store events.
- Worked closely with [company name] Fashion Office to showcase new trends.
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Fashion And Retail Management
Visual Merchandising Manager
Collaborate with store operations & corporate team on floor sets, moves and capital projects
- Utilize all company tools, visual talent, and knowledge to plan, map, and execute merchandising sets incorporating appropriate store specific adaptations as necessary
- In partnership with Store Manager, identify store and market specific nuances. Develop and implement brand appropriate solutions to address these unique needs
- Ensure all Loss Prevention guidelines are met in visual department
- Drive sales through excellent execution of visual merchandising and presentations
- Ensure all signs and graphics are installed and maintained to company standards
- Managed a visual team of 4, also responsible for training store team members to help improve their visual skills
- Perform all other duties as assigned and required
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Assistant Merchandising Manager
Assist the store manager with scheduling shifts and delegating tasks among store employees.
- Motivate employees to obtain better results and address any issues or complaints from them.
- Interviewed, hired, trained, and mentored new associates in the team.
- Control expenses and shortages.
- Control all aspects of merchandising and inventory control for several departments.
- Assist in monitoring department trends and make recommendations for maximizing goals and objectives to improve sales.
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Bachelor of Science
Assistant Merchandising Manager
Learned to lead by example and supervise store associates to ensure delivery of an inspiring and uniquely responsive customer experience through service that is friendly, enthusiastic, passionate and real.
- Assisted in developing and implementing action plans that meet service levels and balance task completion.
- Coached behaviors that align with the company values of Accountability, Collaboration, Humility and Passion.
- Communicated fashion trend information to store associates to promote product knowledge.
- Assisted Store Manager in translating the trend into effective visual presentation, and they ensure that the presentation standards are in line with the company's direction and consistently represent the brand image.
- Assisted with inventory control and financial processes.
- Responsible for daily opening and closing procedures and weekly shipment processes.
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Apparel
Store Merchandising Manager
Examine and interpret current fashion trends in local markets to generate creative solutions to increase revenue.
- Analysis of weekly business using company reports, to develop directives to react to market trends and enhance business.
- Lead management team in execution of store merchandising and display through weekly walkthroughs, written directives, and continual training.
- Manage and implement the seasonal floor set process through effective planning, mapping and timely completion.
- Partner with store manager in developing an effective shipment process, proper promotion and markdown placement, and achieving store shrink goals.
- Participate in new store openings and assist floor set execution in stores within the district.
- Awards: Best of Women's Fall 2006 floor set, Best of Men's Fall 2006 floor set, Best of Men's Spring 2007 floor set.
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Management W / Information Systems
Master of Arts
Merchandising Manager, Hartford, CT
Directs the recruiting, hiring and on-boarding training for all sales and merchandising employees.
- Manages the $4MM annual Variable Labor Budget within the Zone's P&L.
- Establishes and executes the Zones Diversity & Inclusion initiatives.
- Partners with Employee Relations and the HRBP to provide counsel to employees and management.
- Improves zone productivity through analysis and efficient scheduling, training & development of Retail Sales Managers & Merchandisers.
- Provides high-level data and analysis on cost to serve customers, manage resets, LOA and vacation coverage budgets.
- Serves as a liaison between Sales and Distribution to maximize efficiencies within the Router and deliver both sales and distribution operating budgets.
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Merchandising Manager
Ensuring the store's in-stock position, and maintaining an appealing and organized store appearance.
- Staffing and scheduling, identifying and resolving stock deficiencies, supervisor associates in selling behaviors, resolving customer issues and concerns, and supporting service needs for both installed sales/special orders and product sales.
- Supervision of front end processes involving sales and return transactions, as well as special services and lot support.
- Driving department profitability through analysis of sales trends.
- Partner with Merchandising associates to deliver 100% compliance in planograms, price changes, and seasonal re-sets
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Fashion Merchandising And Education, Minor
Visual Merchandising Manager
Manage the merchandising operations of a 200,000 square foot store on two levels generating $21 million in annual sale volume
- Served as the store executive in charge of merchandising, planogram setting, and maintaining a brand appearance for all departments
- Responsible for communicating and supervising the implementation of corporate and divisional visual philosophy, policies, and standards
- Develop training programs for sales managers, sales associates, and upper store management on Visual Merchandising policies, standards, and directives; making sure they are implemented and remain in place
- Coordinate successful events and store promotions
- Design, create, and oversee district advertising for seasonal sales promotions
- Analyze sales trends and develop merchandising plans to improve sales
- Train and mentor new visual merchandising managers from other stores in district
- Develop visual displays for nationally recognized brands Michael Kors, Fossil, Ralph Lauren Polo, Under Armour, Nike, and Calphalon
- Ensure that the image and style of [company name] is maintained in all departments
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Course
Mass Communications
Merchandising Manager
Monitoring of merchandise selling trends, general daily sales plan, and ordering of merchandise in a multimillion dollar book store. Using the daily assignment sheet, reporting center, cash systems and bookmaster to manage overall productivity while actively functioning as the manager on duty.
- Monitoring employee productivity, adherence to company policy, and training.
- Hiring strong candidates for employment and utilizing to where their strengths lie.
- Ensuring positive relationships with both regular customers and new ones.
- Research and resolution of theft occurrences and customer complaints.
- Daily work on meeting display requirements designated by [company name] for their stores.
- Supply orders, relay organization, and troubleshooting technical issues with our computers and registers.
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Office Management
Assistant Sales and Merchandising Manager
Responsible for Canned Foods, Pasta, Pasta Sauce, Prepared Foods, Coffee, Tea, Juice and Baking that generate about $300 million in sales annually. Past category experience includes Candy, Seasonal Candy Commercial Bakery, Cereal and Frozen Foods
- Plan Weekly Ads and create sales forecasts for all stores Ad items
- Monitor and analyze weekly sales to ensure forecasted sales are in line with actual sales
- Responsible for store support and communications to Grocery Managers at 77 Cub Stores
- Meet and negotiate with vendors the lowest cost of goods for ad and price reduction items to maintain margin and increase sales, coordinates promotional plans with Vendors outside of the Region plan
- Perform weekly audits for Ad funding to ensure proper collection of all the deals and follow up with the vendor or Region to capture missing funding
- Give direction and provide workload to a Department Specialist
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Business Management
Master of Business Administration
Online Merchandising Manager
Manage the merchandising department for online affiliate marketing for over 3,500+ retailers.
- Negotiate contracts with vendors regarding commission rates and coordinate with vendors for exclusive promotions.
- Create the online merchandising layout plan of the homepage, holiday and theme pages.
- Develop a small team of up to 5 Merchant Associates who are responsible for their portfolio of retail categories.
- Review reports and analyze sales data to improve conversion rates and revenue
- Research competitor sites to improve deal selection and merchandising ideas.
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High School Diploma
Visual Merchandising Manager
Developed working relationship with fifty plus manufacturers regarding showroom needs for three company showrooms.
- Responsible for merchandising and overall showroom design and appearance.
- Provide a high level of customer service through phone based communications and daily showroom traffic.
- Maintain daily appearance of showroom.
- Hire and supervise contract merchandisers and labor for regional markets.
- Ensure all product is labeled with showroom generated barcodes for scanning during markets.
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Visual Merchandising Manager
Responsible for the overall leadership, visual merchandising and display presentation, fixture
layout, and visual operation within an assigned store.
- Actively coaches and develops store visual teams in order to achieve the highest potential through hands-on training.
- Collaborate with District Manager and Store Manager to integrate both operational and visual
- Ensure that all visual displays are clean, presentable, in good working order and in proper
- Provide a comprehensive focus on Visual Display and Seasonal Installations, ensuring all launches
- Ensure all stores are maintaining proper fixture layouts for all of the stores; report all fixture,
- Plan and execute floor sets every six weeks.
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Sales And Marketing
Operations/hr, Merchandising Manager
Responsible for overall supervision, training and mentoring of all assigned personnel.
- Ensuring sales and credit goals are met on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
- Monitors the inventory and takes care of customers to increase the level of customer satisfaction.
- Directly responsible for overseeing the performance of over 100 store employees.
- Manages payroll hours and controllable expenses to ensure maximum productivity.
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GED
Merchandising Manager
- Developed marketing display for newly built homes and showrooms
- Operated 26 foot box truck and sprinter for the delivery of factory boards and wing racks
- Maintained product display in acquiescence with the company standards
- Accessed inventory and examined merchandise to identify items to reorder or replenish
- Received and counted stock items, tracked data to maintain organization and efficiency
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