Devon Foster Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

• Managed and maintained seasonal OTB file for total DIV.
• Helped develop seasonal/monthly pricing strategies based on vendor agreements and business strategies.
• Worked with financial planning team to align on seasonal/monthly sales/ROF plans.
• Took ownership of private label brands and worked with vendor to develop and design products and business strategies that maintained brand DNA and aligned across other divisions.
• Assisted buyer with cold weather accessories execution from pre-season market prep, writing buys, and flowing buy based on monthly flow and financial plans.
• Member of PDIV Town Hall committee. Created engaging town halls within total PDIV by organizing speakers/Q&As for town halls, creating PowerPoints celebrating birthdays/anniversary’s, hosting town halls, and working.

• Created and maintained PDP pages to Macy's standard and optimized the customer's virtual shopping experience.
• Created/Updated purchase orders in FedBuy system as well as maintained accuracy between Affinity/FedBuy/buying team records.
• Attended seasonal markets with buying team and was able to partake in creating product assortments.
• Pulled weekly/daily reporting for buying team.
• Created advertising content for dress accessories team in MASCM system and was responsible for managing sample requests from vendors.
• Processed RTVs/MDAs for buying team at the end of the month/season.

Full responsibility for all aspects of running the business including hiring, interviewing,sales floor standards, training, sales profitability. Created and implemented a development program for management that included weekly topics such as KPIs, AP procedures, and hours management. Analyzed KPIs daily and made strategic business decisions based on.

Executed and lead floor-sets to company visual standards that best fit the needs of the business. Organized and executed successful orientations with part-time staff consisting of loyalty program, customer experience, and product knowledge training. Interviewed and hired extraordinary and diverse team of associates, and trained lower management on how to.

Provided outstanding customer service and adhered to company policies and procedures. Selected to fill newly created position of temporary key holder from November-January 2016. Chosen to be store's MVP twice, due to always staying curious and seeking new learning opportunities, and by having a strong sense of teamwork with other associates.