Stephanie Ewer Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

• Drove consistent comp gains for our largest volume categories including: private label sweatshirts, tees, jackets, bottoms and snow outerwear
• Responsible for forecasting, developing and purchasing over 40 vendors
• Partner with planning team to manage open-to-buy and drive sales to meet seasonal strategy goals
• Collaborate with private label team and external vendors to create exclusive product for our stores
• Hired, trained and managed assistant buyers to help support team
• Ensure stores have proper inventory levels by monitoring allocation, markdowns and store-to-store transfers

Greater Seattle Area

• Developed relationships with new and existing brands to drive women’s sales
• Met with brand owners and executives to consult on product development and seasonal assortments
• Worked cross-functionally with all buying departments to identify trends/brands to incorporate into women’s apparel offering
• Strategized with web merchant, catalog and visual merchandising teams to align product stories across multiple marketing platforms
• Identified target customer profiles by analyzing and conducting market research

Greater Seattle Area

• Responsible for department reporting: sales recaps, markdowns, vendor selling and open purchase orders
• Supported Buying Director to facilitate department growth
• Created sku and purchase orders across all categories
• Monitored trends to target emerging brands that appealed to our unique customer profiles

Bellevue, Washington

• Supported the men’s, women’s and outerwear’s planning and allocation teams
• Generated purchase orders and maintained updates on costing and deliveries
• Analyzed current color/size product selling for purchase orders
• Responsible for updating store attribute groups used for analysis and allocation

Sandpoint, Idaho

• Assisted merchandising team with developing assortment line plans
• Created and presented a final project to senior merchant with the forecasted trends in bottoms categories
• Cross-functional team communication regarding style numbers, descriptions, costing and deliveries
• Provided feedback to technical design team on quality analysis, customer feedback and fit
• Sample coordination

Apparel Merchandising, Design & Textiles, Fashion Merchandising

This degree encompasses learning all aspects of the apparel industry, everything from the fiber selection to the consumers who are.

Fashion Merchandising And Communication

The London College of Fashion is one of the six schools offered through the University of the Arts London. They focus on giving students.

Education record

Western Washington University is where I completed most of my undergraduate general university requirements.