Joanne Moffa Email & Phone Number

With over ten years of fashion retail sales and operations experience, Joanne brings a level of real life hands on expertise to our company many consulting practices cannot claim. With long term relationships, Joanne helps customers that trust and understand her work ethic and therefore manages an assortment of back of the house processes including but not limited to vendor compliance, inventory control, accounts payable and accounts receivable audits, sales reporting and loss prevention initiatives.

Responsible for all inventory control for • All Saks Fifth Avenue stores Fine and Fashion Jewelry, and Cosmetic• New York Flagship Store entire inventory [Manhattan 5th Avenue Store]• Consolidated transfers and return to vendor • Monitored inbound and outbound store receipts• Employed exception based auditing for accounts payable payments and store net receipts postings• Developed and coordinated Fine Jewelry consolidation for stock balance and end of season sales • Responsible for created Best Practices within inventory control group• Developed and presented educational clinics for New York Flagship Store Loss Prevention department• Managed twice yearly inventory reconciliation • Supervised staff of 8 executives responsible for all other areas of inventory control not directly managed by Joanne

Responsible for cultivating local client base through one on one interaction, using company’s Link CRM software and mailing lists, driving merchandise assortment, responsible for multimillion dollar sales volume.• Managed merchandise assortment to drive sales including o identifying fast movers generating additional orders for stocko identifying slow sellers and through stock balance transfers and vendor returns reducing markdown risko managed effective markdown cadence relative to local market Expertise in managing Petites, Salon Z, and Gifts, DKNY, Active, and Petite SportswearResponsible for all aspects of the shipping and receiving departments including• Coordinating outbound store and vendor shipments, and customer deliveries • Processing all incoming receipts• Store supplies