David Weigand Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York, US

Executive Assistant to:Chief Client Officer- OMD Worldwide & North American Chief Client Solutions Officer, Annalect

New York, New York, US

Amsterdam, North Holland, NL

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US

• Hired by former Warnaco boss to help manage the workload for the NY Soho Design Office. Assist in negotiating garment costs. Communicate with overseas offices while addressing any “red alert” issues to management..
• Transition and train teams from excel based format for Tech Packs to a P.L.M. application - Free Boarders.
• Conversion of designer “Line Sheets” from an excel program to a design based application – Adobe In-Design.
• Providing outstanding and comprehensive administrative and personal support to the NY SOHO design and product development teams.

US

• Gatekeeper for the SVP of Global Sourcing and ten direct reports. Provided planning, directing, managing and coordinating for the day-today businesses activities. Assisted Sourcing teams with administrative functions.
• Maximized efficiency by working closely with SVP to help craft short, medium, and long-term sourcing strategies.
• Decreased corporate international and domestic travel 30% by negotiating all hotel, airline and car service rates; as well as providing appropriate travel recommendations to executives while complying with strict.
• Diplomatically managed overseas vendor relationships, resulting in reduced fabric/trim liability.

• Supported VP of Marketing with advertising, promotions, client relations and product development.
• Successfully planned and executed Anvil’s $300K trade shows and marketing events budget. Arranged all flight and hotel travel for the entire group to ensure costs were in-line with budget. Consistently completed all.
• Coordinated Anvil’s annual sales meetings from site selection to program execution, marketing materials and evaluation follow up.
• Helped launch and execute a new brand which significantly increased market share for the company driving up profits.
• Organized, coordinated and implemented advertising and marketing strategies into clients’ operations. Arranged special promotions to promote company services at the client level.

• Accountable for product costing, purchase orders development, L/C processing, and tracking production. Facilitated in sourcing fabric and trims in market. Review lab dips, trims and samples. Scheduled all clients.

New York, NY, US

• Managed this high profile Ladies’ Dept. with a $14.2 million inventory. Established aggressive growth sales goals for Associates’ private client books which included cross-selling.
• Led and executed "The Kal Event". A highly successful fall/spring preview fashion show to Bridge Sportswear top tier clients which included a private dinner.

San Francisco, California, US

Managed a successful $12 million per year business by coordinating heavy public relations calendar, prioritized “day to day” business objectives and administered schedules and sales plans.

New York, NY, US

• In charge of managing overall operations of Ladies' Moderate Sportswear Dept. which included a $4.2 million inventory.
• Completed Macy's Squad Program. An intense 6-month training program for a select group of recent hired college graduates which highlighted store line & buying line operations.

B.S. - Management

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