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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, United States

- Cultivated and nurtured strategic partnerships with vendors to ensure timely delivery of orders in alignment with the Merchandise Team’s vision.- Streamlined purchase order processing, decreasing turnaround time from 12-14 days to 5-7.- Revamped MedMen policy and all documentation following the Dutchie roll-out to ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices.- Demonstrated exceptional attention to detail in maintaining data integrity, managing SKUs, and reconciling invoices.- Collaborated closely with the master data team to uphold and enhance data integrity standards.

Greater Los Angeles Area

-Developed a suite of macros for my team, everything from small repetitive tasks to wrangling large sets of data for reports, increasing output by >350%. -Designed a centralized method for distributing, maintaining, and updating VBA code. Enabling instant code updates with no downtime or end-user involvement. -Unified 3 separate purchase order numbering system, into a single user-friendly discrepancy PO numbering system, designed to be compatible with legacy technology at our fulfillment centers. -Championed team backlog reduction by identifying information-flow bottlenecks and facilitating team accountability to take on additional responsibilities.

Los Angeles, California, United States

-Automated the creation of several selling & merchandise reports, with an emphasis on attaching flat sketch images, scaled and centered in their target cell.-Developed a system storing and maintaining flat sketch files for use in reports.-Designed a tool for renaming image files en-mass, to conform to naming conventions set by the reports.

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Enacted my own synergy plan; identified areas for maximum improvement with minimum investment.- Merchandised café, designed fixtures, and signage.- Renegotiated contracts with vendors, in the interest of the cafe.- Sourced suppliers to diversify offerings, and meet the tastes of our customers.

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Sourced Materials, trims and findings.- Wrote and executed production time action calender.- Created 1:1 scale drawings for all styles in AutoCAD for use in tech packs. Enabling virtual product development at scale avoiding costly mistakes during the sample process.- Coordinated R&D efforts within the sample process, systematically testing 12 materials and 30+ trims. Maximizing investment in the sample process, exploring every possibility to produce the best quality available. - Transposed pattern pieces returned from contractors into AutoCAD to calculate yardage requirements, estimations were +1% yield. - Designed and manufactured templates as aids for our contractor, and QC before receiving.

Stockton, California Area

- Grew sales from $35K to $160K the first year, through the utilization of already available market research data provided by our national eBay team.- Mined inventory for merchandise with demand and value on eBay, in contrast to our local market. Each sale simultaneously boosting 3+ KPIs.- Photographed, listed product information, and wrote copy for 65+ items a week.- Designed studio space for photographing merchandise. - Developed a program to deliver merchandise en mass to a customer, utilizing our own distribution network, retaining the negotiated cost of shipping included in the sale price.

Stockton, California Area

- Grew sales by 10-25% and shrunk returns for seven consecutive quarters, through the implementation of customer service and workplace accountability systems spearheaded by me. - Mined inventory to fulfil dozens of sales requests for items not listed in our database. Utilize this process to advance the companies inventory and sales goals. - Reshaped site-wide inventory procedures to better serve our sales force. Sales reps were provided with new information to help reduce "the search" for parts, which in turn reduced demand on my position.- Developed and negotiated the implementation of a program to fix gaps in compensation for commissioned employees. - Enforced on-time shipment of products for multiple daily deliveries.- Used AllData to generate competing estimates based on AARA standards, to use when advocating for your position against insurance companies or shops.- Observed for and enforced OSHA and EPA standards site-wide.

Stockton, California Area

- Developed grading rules and charts for design placement.- Designed templates to calibrate the machine, and place designs that were not bound to grading rules. - Designed the layout and sourced storage containers for third party apparel merchandise.- Led teams on the construction and merchandising of company stores during conventions.