Meredith Skeens Email & Phone Number

Kettering, Ohio, United States

Kettering, Ohio

I work with a variety of different stock house and professional photographers to license stock photography needs for ACCO Brands. I use my strong negotiating skills and relationships with my contacts to make sure we are getting the best pricing for these images. I work directly with our Marketing Team and Design Team. Also, creating an in house photo studio at ACCO Brands to help with our growing digital assets needed for marketing and e-commerce. E-commerce and social media have become essential to our companies needs and being able to provide them with creative and functional photography quickly in our in-house studio has been extremely beneficial to our brand. Over the past 3 years, I've create travel opportunities to showcase my landscape photography skills for our Decorative calendar collections and other design needs. The cost savings by traveling and shoot on location landscape photography has saved over $50,000 over the last 3 years. Many of the images have been chosen as covers and one of our leading Licensed calendars used 4 images in their 2019 calendar.

Kettering, Ohio

I'm in charge of seeking all stock photography for our company. I get to work with some amazing stock houses and photographers in order to find images for our decorative calendars, school product lines or decorative home and office products. I use my strong negotiating and relationships with my contacts to make sure we are getting the best pricing for these images. I work directly with all different departments with in my company, so I need to have strong personal skills and be able to multi task. I also work on all of our in house photography needs for product catalogs, web sites and presentation. I helped create our in house studio to give us the capability to provide our company with images of product quicker than going to an out side source.

Ohio, United States

Management training at our corporate office, Use of Photoshop to better enhance photographs and to make marketing pieces for the store. Train new associates at all local Motophoto and Portrait Avenues in studio photography. When I relocated to the Dayton Mall, portrait sessions have tripled from 11 sessions a week to 33. Our average sale increased from $75 to $230. Printing and Quality Control of all photographs that come through our store. Photographer and sales consultant

Use of MS Office and Excel to keep track of store recordsManage a team of eight associates in both the retail and portrait salesPortrait photographer: Fuji and Nikon cameras, photogenic lightingMarketing: posters, greeting cards, and fliers. Special Events Coordinator: Sugar Maple Festival, Lion’s Club Parade, and Momtopia. Payroll, bank deposit, scheduling, and ordering merchandise.

Manage eight associates when general manager not in the store. Opening and closing the store. Teaching Classes: Kids classes and Camera skills. Portrait photographer and sales associate