Margaret Corini Email & Phone Number

Westerly, Ri

Passionate Community Director dedicated to fostering a vibrant and engaged community at The UNITED, a non-profit regional center for arts and arts education in Westerly, Rhode Island, with a mission to "unite the community through the arts". Responsible for ensuring that every member of our community, including Donors, Members, Volunteers and partner non-profits, feels valued, appreciated, and well-supported.Key Responsibilities:Community Engagement and Relationship Building: Develop and execute strategies to nurture relationships with Donors, Members, and Volunteers, fostering a sense of belonging and loyalty to the organization. Initiate regular interactions through various channels to connect and share experiences.Appreciation and Recognition: Design and implement appreciation initiatives to express gratitude to community members for their support and dedication. Collaborate with marketing to create compelling content that highlights their contributions and showcases the impact of their involvement.Communication Management: Manage communication platforms to facilitate transparent and meaningful interactions within the community. Respond promptly to inquiries, feedback, and concerns, ensuring their voices are heard and their needs are addressed.Feedback Collection and Analysis: Develop mechanisms for gathering feedback to understand needs, preferences, and areas for improvement. Analyze feedback to enhance community engagement strategies and programs.Event Coordination and Collaboration: Collaborate with the events team to plan, coordinate, and execute community events, workshops, and appreciation ceremonies. Ensure events align with community values and interests, offering valuable experiences and networking opportunities.Data Management and Reporting: Maintain accurate records of community engagement metrics, interactions, and feedback. Generate regular reports to assess effectiveness and recommend improvements based on data-driven insights.

Tiffany & Co.

Pivoted into a sales and operations leadership role that was centered on implementing sales strategies and driving metrics that were aligned with the organization's long-term goals/plans. Supported stores in Southeastern Connecticut and Rhode Island, which included leading teams of 25+ exempt and non-exempt team members and required identifying opportunities for development and addressing team and/or individual performance issues. Partnered closely with both internal and external stakeholders, devised client engagement strategies and oversaw client development functions.* Played a lead role in driving sales within retail store environment by demonstrating exceptional client support and coaching team members on organization specific sales processes/best practices.* Planned and implemented a staffing development plan to ensure continued progress and growth of team members by providing direct coaching, consistent touch bases and timely feedback. Maintained a robust pipeline of future talent by networking and using technology to identify active and passive candidates.* One of ten directors to be recognized as a "Highly Engaging and Inclusive Leader" within North American Retail Leadership due to achieving exceptional scores on an annual employee survey.*Consistently exceeded store plans due to exhibiting service leadership principles, developing curated experiences for clients, creating an engaging work environment and implementing a culture of celebration and appreciation.

Oversaw merchandising operations across two locations in New York and New Jersey. Reviewed store inventory, conducted product lifecycle planning, created meaningful product architectures and implemented product strategies focused on attaining margin plans. Utilized exceptional analytical skills to review data and make appropriate inventory-related decisions along with building relationships with key internal teams including demand planning, product development, category management and replenishment planning. Managed space optimization and baseline productivity which included conducting pad count allocation at the store level.* Consistently analyzed product assortments, price points and sales trends to achieve inventory turn, productivity and margin targets.* Traveled extensively to both domestic and international locations while simultaneously monitoring a group of over 30k SKUs over multiple product categories.* Key member of a record breaking collection launch which centered on supporting product development and launch efforts, maintaining appropriate stock levels at stores and conducting robust sales analysis.* Designed an optimum assortment level, which focused on the organization's top SKUs being always available in stores, along with providing additional stock to higher performing stores based upon sales forecasts.* Played a lead role in improving employee turnover across both buildings which required identifying key reasons that staff members were leaving and developed strategies to improve engagement in those areas.

Bs, Accounting

As, Computer Science

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