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Leveraging my organizational skills, I conduct weekly Microsoft Team meetings regarding weekly reports and data. Toimprove team-wide performance, I lead relevant HR initiatives, such as employee relations, performance evaluation,appreciation programs, and succession planning. Support and encourage coworkers in performing day-to-day tasks toincrease service.

White Plains, NY

While serving as a Floor Supervisor, I controlled all floor operations, including sales potential generation, staff hiring, budgetmanagement, and client relationship building. Moreover, I maintained a follow-up on all operational procedures, policies, anddirectives.Key Accomplishments:► Streamlined the full recruitment cycle by directing and motivating 10+.

During this role, I ensured seamless product delivery by acting as a key point of contact between partners and vendors.Further, I delivered informative and friendly service through trust-based relationships with customers.Key Accomplishments:► Minimized potential financial loss in risk by 80% through assessment of weekly sales reports for top items and.

Boston, MA

• Managed and Navigated inventory
• Tracked top selling items which were added to inventory supply
• Contributed to increasing the average dollar sale at retail through product knowledge
• Assisted in creating visual aesthetics for the women’s sales floor
• Personal women’s department fashion consultant for customers

New York, NY

• Participated in a comprehensive 11-week professional development module designed to expose African Americans and other college students of color to retail and retail related fields
• Attended retail seminars and workshops; E-Commerce, Advertising, Presentation Skills, Self-Branding, Retail Math, Loss Prevention
• Researched the rise of the multicultural economy and presented solutions before a panel of key business executives
• Placed first in a case study competition
• Participated in numerous networking events to improve my knowledge of the field

New York, NY

• Proactively participated in a 8-week professional internship program in planning and allocations in e-commerce
• Learned key functional areas of the business such as financial analysis, sales forecasting, purchase order processing and tracking
• Worked with a variety of computer programs, analyzed and forecast sales, and allocated units to send to vendors
• Prepared vendor weekly sales for market appointments which helped Planners and Buyers analyze weekly profits for specific collections
• Monitored details such as wording, sentence structure, and webpage accessibility for Women’s brand Neo-Separates and INC for site testing reports
• Conducted research for American Rag specifically for the Youth Customer Women’s Shoes branch which provided ideas to better market the brand to younger customers

Bachelor Of Arts, Management

Related coursework: Principles of Marketing, Introduction to Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting,Financial Management, Operational.

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