Melissa Taylor Email & Phone Number

Overland Park, Kansas

Topeka, Kansas Area

• Women's Footwear: Apr 2014 - Oct 2018 Accessories, Handbags, Hosiery: Oct 2009 - Apr 2014
• Lead Latin America merchant team to drive strong business results. Manage $80M in sales annually. Accountable for department sales, markdown, inventory and margin plans. Deliver aggressive sales plans and significant.
• Create and implement divisional strategies to drive sales by maximizing proven styles, aggressively buy key items and identify trends early to deliver compelling assortments to customer. Develop in partnership with.
• Build product assortment for customers in Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Work closely with North America buyer and utilize US assortment when appropriate to leverage costs. Develop product specific.
• Travel to Latin countries to observe customers' needs and evaluate competition. Work with district managers to gain understanding of each individual country needs. Analyze country selling and adjust assortments.
• Appointed committee leader of counter-seasonal countries. Led merchant team to successfully open and manage stores in Peru, Uruguay and Paraguay. Traveled to countries and brought back insights for all product.

Topeka, Kansas Area

• Assisted in buying responsibilities for children's footwear department for stores in North and Latin America.
• Focused on retail strategy to provide customers with "good, better, best" offering emphasizing heavily on kids' good price points that was affordable to mom.
• Executed weekly open-to-buy and managed to inventory plans based on current sales trends and forecasts.
• Managed daily business operations including vendor communication, purchase order management and marketing coordination.

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