Stephen Murray Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Executing windows packages are met to the highest standard. •Weekly store walks with the store manager to analyze each brand figure sales and plan the weeks' visual movements/ merchandising across the store for each brand to maximize sales. • Delegate with the workload to members of staff. Ensuring they are being provided the right training tools to allow them to deliver the best results. • Training of the management team and members of staff with a visual merchandising workshop provided by the company. The workshop features three key steps for visual merchandising which are, Fixture placement (Store kit), Merchandising and styling. •Communicating with the area management which is mostly with Outfits regional manager and area visual. I communicate with them through store walks, emails, and text messages to ensure the balance between Outfit and brands are met and best for the store. • Opening and closing the store. This includes, daily rotas and figures are up to date, planning tasks into the day and overseeing they are done, staff management ensuring staff are in their correct zones at all time. For closing the store, ensure standards are at their best, cashing up the tills and locking up the store. • KIPS: Encouraging staff to achieve daily and weekly targets. This includes the outfit MasterCard, Online orders in-store and e-receipts.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

I currently working as part of the management team as a visual merchandiser in a red store (top five store) in Aberdeen, Scotland. I work with three other visual merchandisers, each in charge of a department.Responsibilities: • Ensuring the window and instore are visually displayed according to the guidelines to maintain the companies identity. • Analysing weekly sale reports to maximize sales. • Weekly costumer experience walks with my store manager and divided department manager to set weekly tasks for the store and each department. •Creating a clear and focused plan for each new rehang. A divided rehang is normally every three weeks. Using the divided floor plan, plan how much space each trend will have, ensuring all wall and floor stand systems are correct with seasonal guidelines, where placing the mannequin’s looks and creating the right balance between product and fashion within the department. Pricing accordingly to company guidelines. • Sample picking. Using the floor plan and divided trend pages, you plan where every single piece will be placed the shop floor. All the walls and floor stands are numbered. Pot its and elastic bands are used to know where on the floor it is to go and all the pieces which will be used for that area. The following morning everything is placed. This helps create clear fashion stories and wearable buying suggestions. • Styling: Ensuring styling details and ironing are at the highest standard and meeting with the companies’ identity within each concept. • Communicating with the team with upcoming trends, offers and promotions throughout the store. This involves weekly morning meetings once a week. With a new trend, we create mood boards, department walks and activities for the team to create an outfit for the new trend. • Supporting the team on the shop floor and stockroom at busy periods. •Providing excellent customer service and knowledge on the shop floor, in the fitting rooms and at cash desk.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Installing the latest display packages into the store windows (Working with seven, five and three metre windows). •Coordinating store mannequins within each department weekly to keep in line with brand guidelines and strategy. Working with own store bought, high street and designer labels. • The ability to combine colours, textures and various styles for when putting outfit stories together for hotspots to showcase the latest trends throughout the store. • Ensuring all weekly promotions are visible to the customer. This entails hanging bangers, desire frames and trend bangers into the correct departments and see sightings. •Working with the visual manager & department managers to achieve commercial goals. This sometimes includes helping the merchandising teams within different departments with seasonal moves, rearranging and merchandising.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Dressing the mannequins in the latest trends/ new lines/campaigns to maximize sales. • Merchandising the store, outfit building the stock. Commercial blocking. • Ensuring all the latest graphs, pollards and promotional deals are visible.• Maintaining standards to the highest, finger spacing, size order, tag check and cubing garments daily. • Delivery: Ensuring all stock has arrived, handing and tagging each item and out onto the shop floor.•Keeping up to date with the latest trends, new lines and bestsellers • Ensuring best sellers are visible for the costumer. Working from the bestsellers list twice a week. • Writing up daily figures.

London, United Kingdom

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

I work part time at the retail store Schuh as a Sales Assistant. This store provides individual and on trend shoes, boots and trainers for adults and children.My areas of responsibility include:• Dealing with customers face to face and on the phone• Reach individual and team weekly targets• Stock Takes• Face Changes/Sale preparation• Training of new members of staff• Merchandising and changing of mannequins• Cash, debit, interest free credit payments from customers• Up to date knowledge on new trends and fashions

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

I worked part time at the retail store Next as a Sales assistant on the ladies wear department. My key responsibility was to ensure that costumer care is at its highest level at all times. This includes serving at the cash point, fitting room, shop floor, shoe department & greeting costumers when they first enter the store. My other main responsibilities are to maintain that the shop floor is well stocked, tidy & to ensure there are no hazards present.

Textile Deign, Knitwear, First Class Honours

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