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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.
• 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.

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.

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.