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Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

- Manage operations within the department by ensuring team efficiently completes daily tasks to meet guest needs, as well as, manage each team member’s workload and goals.- Work side-by-side with team members and empowering them to own their specific departments from end-to-end.- Consistently assisted with setting key planograms, in addition to training team members on how to follow and set a Visual Merchandising Guide (VMG). Elevated team members' skill sets by teaching them how to lean in to their creativity to make adjustments to visuals based upon each department's layout, fixtures, and available product.- Led the planning and execution on multiple Limited-Time Only collection launches at the store-level, such as Target's collaboration with Vineyard Vines, the Designer Dress Collection, and Target's 20th Anniversary Fashion Collection.

Bensenville, Illinois

- Work on an as-needed basis.- Organize and file invoices alphabetically. - Greet walk-in customers and ask what brings them in.- Answer telephone: take orders, answer questions, record messages, etc.

Bloomingdale, Illinois

- Primary focus was to efficiently sort, unpack, and hang new shipment.- Met and often exceeded company standard of unpacking five boxes per hour.- Assisted with other tasks as needed, including backroom reorganization and store sets.

Lombard, Illinois

- Upon my second-anniversary with Torrid, I was offered a promotion to a higher-volume store in the area in my current position of Full-Time Assistant Store Manager.- Carried over skills developed prior to transfer, adjusting management approach as needed to best fit new team.- Continued to successfully create quality customer connections even with greater foot traffic.

Bloomingdale, Illinois

- Started as Sales Associate (July 2014) to then move up through two other management positions before achieving promotion to Full-Time Assistant Store Manager (July 2015).- Successfully completed daily operations in a timely manner for store to run smoothly.- Refined ability to balance multiple tasks at once by analyzing each situation in order to effectively prioritize and efficiently delegate.- Tracked and analyzed sales to determine individual and team goals.- Completed daily recaps to highlight areas of success and those in need of improvement.- Regularly assisted with store sets from predetermined planograms, making adjustments to visuals based upon our store’s layout, fixtures, and available product.- Created a welcoming and comfortable environment by building strong customer relationships.- Worked closely with Sales Associates on learning store operations, creating customer connections, and selling techniques.

West Des Moines, Iowa

- Helped customers discover clothing that helps them feel comfortable and confident in their own skin.- Learned to use suggestive selling to build sales during customer interactions.- Focused on store recovery and cleaning while manager-on-duty completed nightly closing procedures.

Des Moines, Iowa

- Semesterly-printed satirical publication focused on providing campus-related commentary. - Previously served as a staff writer and editor before taking on role of Editor-in-Chief.- Organized weekly meetings for staff to pitch ideas, assign topics, and check-in for deadlines.- Worked one-on-one with writers and graphic designers to develop vision for each story.

Remote

- Provided monthly article ideas brainstormed both on my own and in discussion with my editor.- Consistently met weekly/monthly deadlines.

New York, New York

- Worked from editorial office twice a week.- Given freedom to focus on a variety of subjects that celebrated culture, style, and art in the tattoo world.- Developed blog ideas through research on recent tattoo-related news.- Wrote and edited my own posts for the website.- Each week I provided the team 6-10 potential posts for future publishing.

Glen Ellyn, Illinois

- Assisted with summer school programs for elementary school children.- Collected daily class attendance in order to follow-up with parents over any discrepancies.- Ran through classroom exercises with students whenever teachers needed assistance.- Watched children during outdoor recess to ensure their safety.

Bajmc Magazine Journalism / Ba English

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Omega, DrakeMag, DUiN, Habitat for Humanity, Sigma Tau Delta, To Write Love on Her Arms

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Model UN, National Honor Society, Newspaper, Spanish Honor Society, TheatreI was the Entertainment Editor of my.