Elizabeth Houlihan Fairfield County, CT 860-***-**** ad3a1q@r.postjobfree.com
WORK EXPERIENCE
Free People, Philadelphia, PA — Sample Coordinator March 2022 - January 2024
● Check in and log merchandise each morning
● Maintain tracking system for sample whereabouts - Competent in organization/filing apps
● Return completed samples back to domestic vendors and warehouse
● Prepare and send samples for color correction
● Prepare and tag all samples for web and catalog photo shoots
● Pack truck for home shoots
● Prepare samples for style outs
● Maintain stockroom
● Coordinate Sample Sales
● Enter, manage and organize Purchase Orders
Free People, Westport, CT — Keyholder
March 2022 - January 2024
● Working directly with managers to perform daily store operations
● Oversee administrative duties when opening and closing store including balancing registers and creating bank deposits
● Drives stores daily sales goals by contributing to the collaborative selling environment
● Creating a positive customer relationship with every sale.
● Staying up to date on current trends, product knowledge, and brand focuses to create the most effective styling/fit sessions with customers
● Assists in shipment to keep updated on new and restocked products
● Assists visual managers in styling displays and merchandising product to brand standards
Honeycomb Stylist Suites, Avon, CT — Hairstylist
September 2020 - January 2024
● Perform in depth consultations to achieve highest client satisfaction and comfort
● Deliver high quality hair styling services to a diverse range of clients including cuts, chemical services, hair treatments, custom color services, and formal styling services.
● Weekly product inventory and retail buying
● Organizes salon calendar and client scheduling
● Social media content creation/photo editing for portfolio
● Social Media/Email Marketing to create salon awareness and grow clientele The Silver Dahlia, West Hartford, CT — Assistant Store Manager October 2018 - June 2019
● Making sure all items in the store are neat, aesthetically merchandised, and fully stocked
● Speaking with brand representatives and ordering products that reflected store aesthetic
● Having extensive product knowledge of all brands we carried.
● Oversaw administrative duties when opening and closing store including balancing registers and creating bank deposits
● Giving associates directions and tasks to ensure daily sales goals are met and store was to standard
● Coordinated an employee schedule using appropriate applications EDUCATION
Tunxis Community College, Farmington, CT — Business Administration/Marketing Studies August 2016 - May 2018
● Understand and apply segmentation, targeting, positioning, branding, and the marketing mix in pursuit of long-term marketing objectives.
● Develop and apply integrated marketing strategies for all channels.
● Analyze principles, techniques and major functions of management and business organizations.
● Create Search Engine Marketing (SEM) & Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) techniques (campaigns), evaluate their effectiveness and recommend changes that will improve an e-commerce campaign’s conversion rates.
● Understand the various methods of online display advertising and create online display ad campaigns and measure its ROAS (return on ad spend based on budgeting) for e-commerce.
● Understand and interpret web analytics; determine the appropriate KPIs for any type of website and make appropriate recommendations to an e-commerce website based on the conversion funnel and analytics.
● Understand and implement best practices in marketing to a database of current and potential customers via email.
International Institute of Cosmetology, Plainville, CT January 2020 - April 2021
● State Board test preparation
● Customer service, rebooking and retailing
● Soft skills, business knowledge and marketing basics
● Resume/portfolio development and interviewing practices
● Hair Cutting and Hair Coloring
● Chemical Processing
● Keratin and Tape In Hair Extensions
● On/off scalp braiding
● Facial Waxing
● Certified Makeup Artist