•Acting as right-hand resource to Executive Chairman/Chief Creative Officer and providing round the clock support for business and personal needs.•Heavy calendar management for both business and personal schedule. •Managing busy travel logistics for both domestic and international travel that includes but not limited to planning commercial and private flights, car service, catered food, hotel amenities and reservations. •Interacting with internal and external Executive/Personal Assistants and industry professionals to schedule meetings, conference calls, dinner meetings, social events, business and leisure travel, art installations, home maintenance and business presentations. •Coordinating the logistics for the Board of Directors quarterly meetings including catering, set-up and breakdown, production of gift bags, administrative needs and overall execution. •Transcribing dictated emails and letters accurately and with attention to detail. •Screening in-coming phone calls and acting as gate-keeper. •Conducting research and pricing analysis for future travel plans.

• Provide administrative and business support to the Global Brand President of Aerie as well as the SVP of Design, and the Aerie Design Department and Leadership Teams.• Manage the calendar for the President, SVP of design and corporate Design Calendar, including but not limited to scheduling cross-functional meetings between the Pittsburgh departments and NY Departments, ensuring the appropriate audio/visual support was in place and plan any travel needs as necessary.• Send company-wide emails on behalf of the President and SVP of Design.• Manage administrative duties for the New York Design Office of Aerie (70+ employees), including but not limited to organizing and overseeing office operations, planning office events (on-site and off-site), on-boarding new hires, managing time-sheets for hourly employees, tracking PTO, and scheduling departmental meetings.• Own and manage the corporate Design calendar including partnering with Production and Corporate counter-parts and department heads to align on key milestones dates, publishing updated Time and Action calendars to the Design department and communicating upcoming milestone deadlines company-wide.• Responsible for maintaining the Aerie Design Budget: strategically plan annual spend for the Design department by month and maintain an efficient and well-balanced budget throughout the year. • Plan, execute and manage company-wide events, team-building activities, annual Strategic Kickoff meetings.• Maintain confidential files, personnel folders and business reports in organized system.• Serve as communication hub, operations resource and office manager for the New York Design Office. • Maintain a consistent professional demeanor and act as an extension to the President’s office.• Manage expenses, book travel, submit samples reports and create presentations for both the President and SVP of Design.

• Assisted the Store Manager in daily administrative and operational duties, including but not limited to opening and closing the boutique, crafting marketing emails to clients, creating and managing client events.• Supported the Merchandise Manager with wholesale accounts and presentations of new collections and oversaw vendor relationships.• Responsible for all visual merchandising, floorsets and ensuring freshness on a regular basis while still assisting with client sales.• Responsible for managing social media presence and promotion.• Learned conversational French in order to interact with local clientele.

• Developed and managed the competitive price analysis project for Southeast Asia Pacific region.• Partnered with counterparts in the Hong Kong office to review, plan and execute departmental goals for region; worked closely with the Planning department to execute assortment buys for Women’s, Men’s and Accessories departments for SEA region.• Collaborated with the US Merchandising group to ensure cultural trends appropriate for SEA region were included in deliveries and partnered with SEA counterparts to effectively communicate changes to deliveries and adjust regional buys.• Assisted the Women’s and Men’s SEA Merch teams during busy Market periods; created presentation boards of buys by country, entered buys into internal Merch system.

• Assisted the Accessories Merchandiser in the business management of Men’s and Women’s Footwear, Handbags, Intimates and Jewelry.• Attended vendor appointments and trade shows in New York, managed samples called in for style-outs and assisted with developing assortments for accessories categories.• Teamed with Merchandisers and Planners to develop and strategize weekly promotional activity for specific categories within accessories division.• Partnered with Visual Merchandising and Marketing to create a unified presentation of key volume driving styles in external marketing communications and throughout the store floorset each season.• Managed product approvals, product testing reports and distributed marketing samples to internal partners.• Maintained shipping report for all products in Accessories Division to ensure timely delivery of new goods to distribution center.

• Provided administrative and business support to the President of Martin + Osa as well as support to the members of the Executive Management Team.• Maintained the President’s calendar, plan and schedule meetings, teleconferences and travel both domestic and abroad.• Managed Executive Management Team personnel files for performance reviews, updated business sales review presentations, prepared and submitted weekly expense reports• Served as an effective gatekeeper when appropriate and coordinated with external Executive Assistants to schedule “Teach-ins” by industry leaders.• Maintained a professional and courteous demeanor as the unofficial representative to the office of the President.• Arranged travel itinerary for company-wide store visits and Executive shopping trips to California and Europe.• Successfully negotiated discounted rates for hotel accommodations during Executive travel, effectively saving the company expense money.• Gained vertical knowledge of the retail industry through exposure to the merchandising, planning, marketing and store operations departments.

• Served as communication hub for sales of the boutique jewelry collection, Kara by Kara Ross: scheduled buying appointments in the showroom and managed execution of purchase orders for key accounts.• Partnered with PR Manager to develop relationships with key celebrity stylists and send out editorial samples, update inventory of jewelry and handbags and collect press clippings.• Organized raw goods order and coordinated production calendar for boutique jewelry collection.• Initiated and updated record of potential new retail accounts to target for wholesale business.• Assisted Office Manager in administrative duties including but not limited to ordering office supplies, preparing expense reports, scheduling repair appointments, managing catering for special events in the showroom as well as the daily maintaining of showroom appearance and storage of fine jewelry.

• Responsible for selling subscriptions to CisionPoint and Media Source to new National Accounts that have more than a thousand employees and over $200 million in annual revenue.• Managed new business territory of all of New England and New Jersey and secured 10 new business accounts during three month grace period with guaranteed commission.• Surpassed monthly goal in the first month out of guaranteed commission and continued to meet or exceed monthly goals.

• Developed strategic sales plans to maximize profitability and exceed fiscal year 2005 revenue goal by 15%• Managed territory of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania with key accounts at Fortune 500 companies (consumer packaged goods sector).• Helped organize the Trade Marketing initiative in Canadian offices, training their sales force and all new recruits in North America.• Individually coordinated the account specific business of the region’s largest client.