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Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Strong interpersonal skills, outstanding customer service and focus, strong business judgment, excellent written and oral communication skills. Able to communicate professionally in a clear and concise manner while crafting and adapting informative presentations designed to resonate with various target audiences. Exercising independent decision making when interpreting instructions to produce high-quality documents while maintaining firm standards• Presentations: creating, editing and formatting lengthy and complicated presentations, documents, statistical reports, templates, graphs, charts, org. charts, timelines, maps, and diagrams.• Graphics and design: taking customer ideas and analyzing brand identities to make professional, aesthetically pleasing layouts, illustrations, , icons and infographics.• PDF creation and editing for watermarks, redactions, consolidation, and conversion of PDF documents to Excel, Word and PowerPoint.• Troubleshooting departmental software.• Solid working knowledge of Microsoft Office 2007-2013 including analysis, report generation, and mail merges.• Flexible and focused in a fast-paced, multiple deadline driven environment requiring fluid communication and fast turnaround while maintaining high productivity, accuracy and attention to detail.• Juggling of a wide variety of projects simultaneously and prioritizing multiple tasks in order to meet deadlines, as well as working closely with members of various teams to achieve project goals.

New York, New York

Purchasing and development of furniture, lighting, tabletop, kitchen, home textiles, and decorative home accessory products.• Selection of new products to be presented and reviewed by MoMA curatorial committee.• Crafting of assortment and feature plans for web store, semi-annual retail catalogs, annual wholesale catalogs, and five retail locations.• Communicate with international partners to develop culturally specific product assortments for the Japanese and Korean markets.• Maintain stock levels of an average of 700 SKUs products through projection and liquidation.• Discover and develop new wholesale programs in conjunction with designers, artist foundations, and estates using a range of artwork from the museum collection.

The Museum Of Modern Art

• Forged and cultivated successful, meaningful business relationships with designers & vendors.• Setup of new merchandise information for ordering, forecasting, copywriting, photography styling, training, and sale both in-store, over the phone, and online.• Performed product information training sessions for store and call center staff.• Developed new wholesale products by working as liaison between designers and manufacturers.• Negotiated retail and royalty agreements under the guidance of MoMA’s legal team.• Achieved fluency in Microsoft Excel and Inventory Management System.• Creation and analysis of all sales, margin, and vendor reports.

The Museum Of Modern Art

• Managed and supported a team of over 30 individuals.• Created cross category merchandise displays and store layouts.• Communicated product feedback to merchandising team members.• Enacted new concepts and ideas provided by merchandising and visual teams.• Learned to balance creative and administrative duties.

The Museum Of Modern Art

• Assisted both customers and sales associates on the sales floor.• Created new merchandise displays and layouts.• Communicated customer feedback to in-storemanagement.

The Museum Of Modern Art

• Provided excellent customer service to museum visitors on the sales floor.• Maintained in store merchandise stories and presentations.