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Retail store design and construction solutions

East Rutherford, New Jersey, Us

Lead a team of employees, store designers, architects, manufacturers, material suppliers and general contractors to create Hudson and specialty branded stores in the Travel Retail sector.

New York, Us

Defined, developed and managed organization, projects, schedules and budgets necessary to achieve domestic and international store expansion goals in North and South America, Asia, Europe, Russia and Middle East. Reported to Chief Financial Officer and Chief Marketing Officer as VP Store Design and Construction, VP Shop-in-Shop & International Stores and VP Store Visual, Planning and Construction. Corporate Leadership Council and Real Estate Committee member. Executive leader of change management. • Built organization and processes that supported growth of 30 brands to help increase revenues by over $2 billion.• Created first Juicy Couture stores and followed through to grow brand from $100m domestic to $500m global. Led collaboration between Pam & Gela (founders), Finance and interior design firm to develop store design. Hired and managed organization to design, source and build over 300 shop-in-shops and stores; including flagships in London, Beijing, Moscow, New York, Los Angeles and Kuwait.• Led store design development and rollout of Liz Claiborne New York brand by Isaac Mizrahi to over 400 shop-in-shops and stores around world. Developed and implemented strategies that reduced capital costs $3.3mm.• Coordinated integration of Amsterdam based Mexx brand acquisition into corporate store construction organization; opened 17 stores in USA including flagship on 5th Ave, NYC.• Managed shop-in-shop design development and rollout for licensed brands Kenneth Cole and DKNY Jeans to USA, Canada and Mexico.• Collaborated with name-sake designers, Liz Claiborne, Dana Buchman, Donna Karan, Sigrid Olsen, Kate Spade and Shelli Segal to create and open retail environments that reflected their personal style as shop-in-shops at Bloomingdales and flagship stores in New York City.• Negotiated with department store management to improve shop locations and increase square footage, as well as cost share new installations to recover shop costs in less than one year.

New York, Us

Reported to Chief Marketing Officer. Evaluated feasibility, costs and ROI of an e-commerce business for presentation to Board of Directors. Create and then manage e-commerce organization, website and P&L.• Launched and ran first ecommerce websites; LizClaiborne.com, Elisabeth.com and employee website, generating $2mm incremental sales with virtually no capital investment. • Received Chairman’s Award for accomplishment; awarded to one employee each year

New York, Us

Reported to President Retail Division and performed real estate strategic planning, location evaluation, and landlord negotiation. Managed Store Operations and Construction Department. • Opened 42 First Issue and 8 Liz Claiborne stores, including flagship store on 5th Ave. NYC.

New York, Us

Reported to Chief Financial Officer and managed Retail Division Accounting Department for Liz Claiborne Inc.

Reported to Chief Financial Officer.

Specialty retail store chain selling petite sized women’s apparel in high end regional malls

Plano, Texas, Us

Marketing Budget Manager (NYC) (1985 to 1987)• Planning, reporting and control for $400 million marketing budgetAutomation/Analysis Manager (Dallas, TX) (1981 to 1984)• Created the Management Information Systems departmentAccounting Procedures Specialist - Controller's Department (NYC) (1978 to 1980)• Implemented the first computerized point-of-sale cash registers for JCPenney Company Inc.

Bsba, Accounting

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