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Develop admissions organizational strategies by contributing information, analysis, and recommendations to the head of administration. Establish admissions operational strategies by evaluating trends; establishing critical measurements, and customer-service strategies; accumulating resources; resolving problems; implementing change.Develop admissions financial strategies by estimating, forecasting, and anticipating requirements, trends, and variances; aligning monetary resources; developing action plans; measuring and analyzing results; initiating corrective actions. Promote the school and attract new students by maintaining working relationships with other feeder schools, working closely with the development office. Maintain continuous flow of quality applicants and transfers to the school by analyzing trends in enrollment and marketing activities. Welcome prospective student to the campus by staging semi-annual open houses and scheduling tours throughout the year with prospective Determine scholarship recipients by serving on the school’s scholarship selection Design/produce mailings and correspondence pertinent to the admissions process.Establish, maintain and evaluate appropriate systems to facilitate family visits, student testing, interviewing. Develop a detailed one to three year marketing plan to target, nurture, enroll and keep mission appropriate students.Create an advertising plan for each year and work with different types of media groups to implement the advertising. Create advertisements for social media, radio, television, and magazines.

In charge of Maintaining inventory by implementing purchasing plans and staying in contact with vendors and shippers. Develop a schedule of holiday activities and promotions throughout the year strategically designed to bring in more revenueSet schedules for staff to ensure store coverage. Travelled to Gift Market twice a year to purchase inventory. Manage all controllable costs to keep operations profitableMerchandised the store and store window, on a regular basis to generate sales.Ensured availability of merchandise and maintaining inventories. Analyzed sales figures and forecasted future sales. Responded to customer complaints and comments.Set merchandise pricing based on cost and yearly sales expectations.

Responsible for all merchandise allocation functions for assigned departments, across 800 retail stores. In charge of financial planning and execution throughout the entire lifecycle of a SKU. Responsible for the allocation strategy to support sales, gross margin and inventory management. Assure accuracy and execution of allocations strategies as they relate to markdown timing, receipt management, open to buy forecasting, reporting and analysis. Lead, motivated, trained, and developed a team of Allocations Analysts to assure adherence to financial plan, replenishment and in-stock levels to support visual standards, retail event mailers and other seasonal marketing initiatives. Conducted regular meetings with Merchandising and Planning to discuss sales, inventory, marketing and competition to drive financial performance. Reviewed prior seasons performance through analysis and reporting to develop future strategies.Conducted regular visits to Pier 1 stores and the competition to review sales, strategic opportunities, merchandise assortment, markdowns and visual presentation.