Janay Daniel Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

• Relevant Skills:Strategy Development LMS Management Project Management for New/Established Initiatives Driving PartnershipManaging Client & Vendor Relationships Time Management Communicating with All Levels of Leadership
• Developing strategies to create engaging, knowledge-forward training that's in line with brand priority and enterprise-wide strategy.
• Partnering with internal stakeholders and external vendors to strengthen relationships, collaborate on initiatives, and implement educational programs for Target's Beauty teams.
• Creating new styles of training and education initiatives to enhance learning retention and team member experience for Beauty team members and leaders.
• Building weekly/monthly continuous learning modules providing teams with fundamentals for daily operations, product knowledge, guest experience, and loyalty to provide excellent guest service and increase our bottom.
• Tracking completion rates, extracting data from evaluations, and conducting focus groups for field teams to ensure their voices are heard and providing the right mix of training to balance learning and daily routines.

• Provided Visual Merchandising Guides to our field teams to ensure proper merchandising standards and to maximize sales.
• Collaborated with Cross-Functional Partners to convey monthly strategies to our stores.
• Used the Adobe Suite to create, edit, and enhance our Visual Merchandising Guides.
• Photographed Mock Floorpads for each division to accurately represent merchandising standards in our Visual Merchandising Guides.
• Managed production calendar in order to meet monthly deadlines.

New York, New York, United States

• Preformed initial examination and testing of diamonds submitted for testing to the GIA lab.
• Identified clarity characteristics to accurately assess the clarity, polish, and symmetry of each stone.
• Plotted each diamond's features for best representation on each Diamond Grading Report.
• Understanding of laboratory workflows, procedures, and GIA systems (Spectrum & Searchlight).
• Ongoing training and development.

Greater New York City Area

• Acted as a liaison between our merchants, vendors, internal partners, and field teams to launch new initiatives that visually enticed customers, met quality standards and emphasized the brands.
• Ensured that our customers, vendor partners, and merchants had properly executed visual, operational and merchandising strategies in-store, in order to meet and exceed monthly/quarterly plans and maximize sales.
• Provided ongoing training via weekly and monthly calls, directives, and store visits in order to provide feedback to vice presidents, district directors and field teams on proper merchandising standards.
• Managed timing and action calendar in order to meet monthly and quarterly deadlines.
• Manipulated various types of data and reports to communicate pricing strategies, product specifics, and launch details to our field teams.

Greater New York City Area

• Engaged in daily communication with Vendors, Visual Managers, District Directors and internal partners to create custom branded print projects for each store.
• Interpreted store requests and managed a multi-million dollar budget in order to make informed, yet cost-effective decisions for branding projects.
• Attended regular meetings with Art Director to ensure that brand awareness, integrity and the company's vision were the core focus.
• Adhered to deadlines to make sure branding was received by in-store date.
• Coordinated additional projects as necessary.

Greater New York City Area

• Managed Reset program where old gemstones were given new life in newly created pieces of jewelry.
• Merchandised newly added and existing product offerings for our e-commerce site.
• Purchased diamonds, precious/semi precious gems and materials from vendors, oversaw inventory and maintained systems and product to ensure budgets were met.
• Created and launched new product.
• Automated processes to speed up workflow and improve overall customer experience.
• Managed a team of 10 to ensure a timely flow of production.

Greater New York City Area

• Established and maintained domestic and international wholesale accounts.
• Maintained excellent rapport with vendors and customers.
• Met/exceeded daily sales goals, confirmed orders for accuracy and processed/shipped orders.
• Sourced and purchased materials for jewelry sample production, daily data entry and upkeep of invoices, return, repair and bookkeeping logs.
• Coordinated and attended trade shows and supervised and trained production team and support staff.

Greater New York City Area

• Researched, designed and produced samples
• Created custom orders
• Preformed website maintenance for easy navigation
• Photographed and edited images and website content
• Assisted customers with product inquiries and order information

Fashion Design

Jewelry Design