Shalyn Baum Email & Phone Number

Winter Park, Florida, Us

Philadelpia, Pa, Us

-Buyer - Lifestyle-Businesses include trend tech, audio tech, photo tech, stationery, and books.

• Buyer of Bibliophile & Brands (Includes Home Office, Reading Aids, & Key Brands) for both Barnes & Noble and Paper Source Stores

New York, Us

-Reading/Working/Study Aids Buyer-Businesses Include Bookmarks, Reading Aids, Home Office, Writing Instruments, Artist Supplies, and Impulse

New York, Us

• Buyer of Artist Supplies, Bookmarks, Café Gift, Christian Gifting, and Little Gift Books on the Gift Team for all 630 B&N stores/e-commerce • Independently own a multi-million dollar sales plan, and navigate open to buy with the planning team to receipt in a core, everyday assortment, as well as seasonal features• Build and maintain one-hundred fifty vendor relationships, and attend trade shows (NY/Atlanta/CES) to find new product opportunities and emerging trends• Project Manager across Gift Team for all holiday assortments, including working on product development and trend boards, maintaining all financial rollups, and working on merchandising with visual team• Que Line Buyer for new B&N concept stores across all Specialty product categories, including product selection, creation of assortment plans, and in-store setup • Planned the launch of the Christian Gifting category in fiscal '19 which immediately exceeded plan/forecast by twenty percent, and ended the year up three percent on the yearly sales plan• Reinvented the tech category from an educational offering into a lifestyle, fashion tech assortment up sixty-three percent/two million dollars on the fiscal '19 plan• Point Person for Gift Team/Trade Co-Promotions, such as “The Handmaid’s Tale” and Book Club • Work with cross merchandising partners in visual, planning, allocations, store operations, and store communications to efficiently execute all new product launches, fixture resets, and promotions

Los Angeles, California, Us

• Account Executive for Major Accounts, including Amazon, Neiman Marcus, and Belk• Managing sales of Off Price Accounts, such as Rue La La, Haute Look, and Last Call• Analyzing weekly, monthly, and quarterly sales in forecasting meetings to grow all accounts• Working monthly market appointments and finding immediate sales opportunities based on sales trend

• Account Executive for all Off Price Accounts and Specialty Accounts (Canada and Central America)• International liaison for our Milan Showroom, assisting all international accounts• Retail coordinating and hosting product knowledge clinics at Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, and Saks• Project manager for development projects for Anthropologie and BHLDN

New York, Ny, Us

Talent for Seventeen Magazine, Walmart, ABC, CBS, Fox, MTV, etc.

-Recruited for a Marist Project to create the first peer-to-peer fashion MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) in the world; Found at https://thefold.marist.edu/learn-Helped in planning the reprise of the FW14 Betsey Johnson Runway Show

Us

• Specialized in Sample Trafficking, Story Board Assembling, Updating Fashion Show Look Books, Trend Researching, and Assisting Editors for the French/Italian Fashion Markets

• Checking in, organizing, and returning clothing and accessory samples• Assisting editors in the fashion department and on photo shoots• Running errands to showrooms to pick up samples

New York, New York, Us

• Photographing Marist students on campus who embody street style fashion • Writing weekly blog pieces about trends • Providing styling advice as well as information on replicating looks

Bachelor Of Professional Studies, Fashion Merchandising

High School Diploma, Theatre