Ayse Boneval Email & Phone Number

Columbia, Md

Duties:Organize and maintain meticulous daily visual presentations based on company brand objectives. Drivebrand and sales campaigns through detailed execution of merchandising and arranging furniture mixes. Maintain constant collaboration with Store Manager and Area Visual Manager in analyzing and identifying merchandise strengths and opportunities in sales impact. Train sales staff in visual upkeep of store and provide support to retail operations. Verify product stock level, manage merchandise flow, monitor sales reports, create agenda for new product rollout, and plan for upcoming campaigns utilizing various company databases. Execute transfer trucks and direct moving crew bi-weekly in an efficient and expedient manner. Demonstrate sense of urgency in building, installing, and using mixed media in multiple designs throughout store.Accomplishments:• Assisted in set-up of current managing location of Columbia, Maryland Arhaus. Following corporateplans merchandise was received, directed, and placed in a two-week time period for store opening.Worked with Director of Store Openings and Visual Merchandising teams from various Arhauslocations to complete presentation of store.• Placed on visual store opening team traveling to new Arhaus locations to prepare and merchandiselocations for grand opening.• Routinely pair up with The Mall in Columbia to do promotions and vignettes in mall.• Advanced from Visual Assistant to Visual Manager of new store location within 4 months of employment.

Duties:Recruited, hired, and trained staff of 8 with premier customer service skills, sales building techniques, and product knowledge. Emailed and phoned customers from our Clientele books to notify of promotions or for personal shopping appointments. Promoted and executed company's vision and core values. Scheduled staffing based on daily sales goals to exceed sales plan. Ordered merchandise for store based on product levels and sale trends using unique automated system. Visually managed store based on company's guidelines creating feature tables, window arrangements, and daily store presentation to drive sales. Maintained and updated various spreadsheets and databases. Performed time and attendance auditing of staff. Handled sensitive and confidential employee information. Collaborated with Corporate staff to implement and execute sales plan to achieve store success. Excellent motivational and focused leadership skills impacted for staff's positive personal achievements and accomplishment of store goals. Accomplishments• Tracked and analyzed sales, based on Units Per Transactions, Average Dollar Per Customer and employees performances, in order to formulate plan to exceed stores sales goals on a weekly basis.• Conducted Internet research for new parent groups to drive more sales into store. Reached out to various parent groups, communicated company's vision, and offer incentives. Resulted in increase oftraffic and sales within store an additional 10-20% of weekly plan.• Mentorship of entry-level staff members on extensive selling skills, responsibility of workperformance and education in leadership to manage other employees.

Duties:Hired, educated, and motivated staff of 8 produced strong sales and sales floor awareness. Planned and coordinated employee schedules for optimum customer service and floor coverage. Applied knowledge ofMicrosoft Office and Microsoft PowerPoint to draft, produce, and implement new-hire training manual.Worked with owner directly to order, purchase, and created high product margin for over 1,000 + items.Made travel arrangements for purchase trips 4 times a year. Composed mail correspondence and e-mail between vendors for orders and billing. Arranged, organized, and conducted time-sensitive projects, meetingsand conferences efficiently. Created signs, coordinated store visuals based on product levels and designedemail notifications of store activities for customer base. Ordered supplies and purchased equipment for storeoperations working within given budget.Accomplishments:• Negotiated pricing on product during buying trip to create a greater profit margin for store.Items sold out at store within one month of purchase also garnering an increase in sales by 30% for the month.• Created a comprehensive training manual using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word when noworking manual existed. Resulted in a singular standardized source allowing for consistentprocedures and policies for a knowledgeable and efficient staff.• Compilation of customer purchase history using Microsoft Excel enabled the overturning of a customer's false attempts to reverse their credit card charges.