- Driving sales and growth in the Men’s Hair & Beard care brands and category- Assist the Senior Buyer in driving results for key brands and initiatives

● Train 5 new hires as the Active Category Advisor in all the common systems, communication with vendors, facilitating questions, and organizing their final presentation to upper management.● Recruit potential Kohl’s Corporate interns and full time employees by conducting several interviews at multiple career fairs.● Taking lead in the Active category to help 20 Allocation Analysts in Day After Thanksgiving (DAT) protocol and allocationresponsibilities.● Analyzing and presenting monthly on Women’s Active Apparel Weekly, MTD, QTD, and STD sales performance and inventory position.● Conducting monthly competitive shopping to maintain understanding of current and upcoming trends across market shareholders.● Allocating multi-million dollars of product for two national brands to over 1,000 store locations.● Assisting in line planning and assortment for future seasons in order to stay relevant within the market.● Writing large quantities of purchase orders for multiple seasons in order to maintain strong inventory position and relevance in the market.● Managing two multi-million dollar brands including vendor relations, purchase order maintenance, chasing additional units to fulfill inventory needs, assisting in line and buy plans, and analyzing the business on a daily basis.

º Perform research on the industry and present new ideas to the Buying Office on potential strategies to maintain success within our category.º Run and analyze reports through the systems Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), Tableau, and Excel. º Present information on Best Sellers and Competitive Shopping within the Women’s Active Apparel Department.º Develop a business strategy that would increase sales and profitability in the Active Department.

º Trained new employees on information learned in trainings to ensure new employees are onboarded effectively and efficiently. º Staged visual merchandising on multiple occasions in the front of the store (event zone) as well as different shops throughout the women’s, men’s, and children’s sections.º Organized a more efficient set-up in the fitting room, register area, clearance section, and back room in order to help make a better organized store.

º Maintained back of house standards by regularly organizing product and equipment.º Implemented new back of house system by reorganizing product and training employees on how to correctly use the new system.º Communicated with other managers on new marketing plans and sales to help drive sales.º Managed employees during shipment process, markdowns, signage, and everyday activities.