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Fort Worth, Texas, United States

-Purchase and manage inventory to align with corporate goals, ensuring optimal mix and meeting financial targets.-Collaborate with suppliers to secure competitive quotes, boosting margins and customer satisfaction.-Maintain strong supplier relationships, offering unique product solutions to benefit suppliers and customers.-Resolve accounting and product issues promptly, ensuring nonconforming products are managed efficiently.-Partner with sales teams to boost business growth… Show more -Purchase and manage inventory to align with corporate goals, ensuring optimal mix and meeting financial targets.-Collaborate with suppliers to secure competitive quotes, boosting margins and customer satisfaction.-Maintain strong supplier relationships, offering unique product solutions to benefit suppliers and customers.-Resolve accounting and product issues promptly, ensuring nonconforming products are managed efficiently.-Partner with sales teams to boost business growth, providing product insights and competitive quotes while maintaining profit margins.-Completed ITAR training to ensure compliance with export control laws governing defense-related articles and services inaccordance with U.S. government regulations.-Managed procurement processes for government contract buys, ensuring adherence to legal requirements and facilitatingtimely acquisition of products and services. Show less

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Irving, Texas, United States

-Ensured consistent inventory flow, reducing markdowns and optimizing product availability.-Enhance store performance by ensuring optimal product mix and inventory flow, reducing excess stock markdowns while boosting revenue through strategic product availability.-Utilize MFP for precise sales forecasting of SBA classes and seasonal programs, monitoring key metrics to align with planned sales and margin targets.-Craft comprehensive financial plans and reports to guide overall… Show more -Ensured consistent inventory flow, reducing markdowns and optimizing product availability.-Enhance store performance by ensuring optimal product mix and inventory flow, reducing excess stock markdowns while boosting revenue through strategic product availability.-Utilize MFP for precise sales forecasting of SBA classes and seasonal programs, monitoring key metrics to align with planned sales and margin targets.-Craft comprehensive financial plans and reports to guide overall business growth, focusing on profit increase and spending reduction strategies.-Partner with cross-functional inventory teams to identify business priorities, opportunities, and challenges during open-to buy meetings, driving strategic decision-making.-Developed data-driven merchandise strategies, enhancing sales and ROI. Optimized inventory flow, minimizing markdowns while ensuring product availability. Show less

Irving, Texas

Irving, Tx

-Collaborated with buyers to plan and purchase seasonal merchandise, ensuring product availability.-Executed advertising, pricing, and promotion strategies with cross-functional teams to boost sales.-Created planograms to enhance merchandise presentation using financial and competitive analysis.-Managed SKUs to ensure accurate cost and quantity in purchase orders.-Generated reports using data analytics tools to analyze sales, inventory, and market trends.-Negotiated… Show more -Collaborated with buyers to plan and purchase seasonal merchandise, ensuring product availability.-Executed advertising, pricing, and promotion strategies with cross-functional teams to boost sales.-Created planograms to enhance merchandise presentation using financial and competitive analysis.-Managed SKUs to ensure accurate cost and quantity in purchase orders.-Generated reports using data analytics tools to analyze sales, inventory, and market trends.-Negotiated favorable terms with suppliers, maintaining strong relationships Show less

Irving, Tx

• Develop ad hoc reports for Category Manager to assist in making sound buying decisions. • Build assortment plans and communicate with planner to align sales and gross margin target financial plan for seasonal programs.• Proof and forecast marketing ads and emails to match the department’s financial goal.• Works closely with the ACM and CM to build visually appealing POG sets to maximize sales and improve store execution through the POG proofing process.• Communicates… Show more • Develop ad hoc reports for Category Manager to assist in making sound buying decisions. • Build assortment plans and communicate with planner to align sales and gross margin target financial plan for seasonal programs.• Proof and forecast marketing ads and emails to match the department’s financial goal.• Works closely with the ACM and CM to build visually appealing POG sets to maximize sales and improve store execution through the POG proofing process.• Communicates effectively with vendors to gather samples for upcoming programs and execute POG sets.• Sets up new SKUs and maintenance for all department items to ensure PO's are created in a timely matter.• Partners with inventory management team on all SBA resets and feature space programs for inventory accuracy. Show less

The Colony, Tx

• Designed the overall visual aesthetic of assigned department to inspire and engage the customer while promoting the product. • Created and directed effective visual displays within the youth and baby department, including seasonal and trend updates.• Projected creativity with merchandise presentation to maximize store sales while creating a pleasant shopping experience.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Assist customers with their shopping needs and merchandise locations.• Built and maintained genuine customer relationships. • Handled cash register transactions: returns, exchanges, etc.

Highland Park Village

• Assisted in-house artist and visual manager with the construction of window displays and in-store visuals. • Responsible for maintaining all forms throughout the store to uphold to fashion trends as well as Anthropologie standards.•Re-stocked and re-merchandised different apparel and home goods throughout the store.

Bachelor'S Degree, Fashion Merchandising

High School Diploma