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Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidateCandidate's Name 75-10 150 St. Apt. 1D Flushing, NY 11367 EMAIL AVAILABLE PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEProfessional SummaryRetail buying professional with 4 years of experience working with fast-paced buying teams in areas pertaining to allocations, inventory management, buying, and merchandising. Also, a recent graduate at FIT, class of 2020 for Fashion Business Management. Skills- Technical Proficiencies: Retail Math, Excel, Google Docs, SPSS, SAP, KPI Dashboards, QuickBooks, Shopify, Merchandising Systems.- Merchandising and Inventory Management: Retail, Showroom, Sample Sale, Trade Show, Special Events and E-commerce.- Buying: Apparel and Accessories (Fashion and Luxury); Home Goods; Beauty Aids; Electronics; Food and Beverages (Fresh and Frozen). Relevant Work ExperienceAssistant Buyer August 2018 October 2019Restaurant Depot College Point, NY- Assisted in buying frozen and fresh food and beverage products for 44 retail stores across the Eastern Coast of the USA.- Effectively resolved inventory issues, quality complaints, and pricing discrepancies for retail mangers, and store merchandisers.- Allocated and Replenished products to 44 stores on a daily basis, and assisted in building system scripts by utilizing excel macros to streamline the allocations, replenishment and buying processes. In addition, assisted with assortment planning for 2 grand store openings.- Generated and formatted reports for meetings and buys regarding sales, forecasts, margins, turns, sell-through rates and open to buy.- Accurately created, and monitored Purchase Orders, store transfers, truck billing payments, vendor repayments, and foreign wire payments.- Audited Purchase Order discrepancies in order to process repayments. Also, tracked repayments and updated the corresponding vendors.- Assisted logistics in remitting billing payments to trucking companies, as well as tracking payment statuses and assisting with discrepancies.- In charge of daily maintaining the low margin test and elasticity spreadsheets by utilizing excel macros to populate information from generated retail cost reports for underperforming stores and items; and then using calculations on test sheet to markdown retail price in system. Assistant Buyer September 2017 April 2018National Wholesale Liquidators West Hempstead, NY- Assisted in buying home goods, beauty aids, and electronics. Managed accounts consisting of 100 vendors and over 25,000 SKUs.- Allocated and Replenished merchandise to our e-commerce store and across 12 retail stores nationwide.- Accurately created, maintained and tracked Purchase Orders daily, and implemented a tracking system to track over 600 Purchase orders.- Created a training guide to teach new employees on how to use our merchandising system, as well as standard operating procedures.- Generated and formatted reports for weekly meetings in order to analyze sales data, margins, turns, open to buy, and sell-through rates. Buyers Assistant August 2016 May 2017International Shoppes Valley Stream, NY- Assisted a team of 7 buyers in managing apparel and accessories accounts for 40 brands including but not limited to Herms, Bvlgari, Cartier, Gucci, Hugo Boss, Ferragamo, Coach, Michael Kors, and Longchamp.- In charge of creating and sending out daily sales reports containing sales data obtained from our multiple retail stores located in major airport terminals across the North East Region.- Allocated, replenished and transferred merchandise across 23 doors. In addition, successfully implemented a tracking system to accurately track over 500 transfers and provide buying supervisors with status updates.- Accurately created RTVs (Return to Vendor), price changes, purchase orders, and product descriptions on our Merchandising System.- Generated and formatted reports for buyers and Vendors regarding sales, traffic data, customer mix information, and profit margins. Boutique Associate - Buying Team Assistant March 2015 June 2016 Peloton Cycle New York, NY- Assisted the Senior and Associate Buyers with allocating merchandise to multiple retail locations nationwide.- Effectively solved inventory related issues for our retail staff, executive sales teams, and customer experience staff.- Created SKUs and coupon codes on both e-commerce and retail stores merchandising systems. I also created witty and eye-catching descriptions for products sold on our boutique website.- Oversaw and assisted in shipping out and tracking over 1,000 orders to customers on our e-commerce platform. Later on, assisted with the transition from an in-house storage unit to a fulfillment warehouse in order to meet our high-volume order demands.- Assisted photographers on photo shoots by tracking and managing merchandise on models.- Wrote apparel and accessories guides including selling points and brand information in order to further educate retail staff on new products.- Researched trends in fitness, athleisure and activewear in order to further develop our buying scheme and assortment for new stores. Education- Bachelor of Science: International Trade & Marketing for the Fashion Industries, In Progress Fashion Institute of Technology SUNY, New York, NY- Associate in Applied Science: Fashion Business Management, May 2020 Fashion Institute of Technology SUNY, New York, NY- Bachelor of Arts: Psychology, September 2014Hunter College CUNY, New York, NY |
