Sales Assistant

Gaby Liu

Mobile 323-***-****

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Merchandise Executive

Senior Buyer with additional background in global sourcing and general management with P&L responsibility. Successful track record of driving sales and profitability growth. Regarded as a results-oriented problem solver who excels in:

Strategic Planning and Execution Identify new business opportunity

Cost of goods saving Vendors/ Suppliers Negotiation

Knowledge in Manufacture industry bulk goods& Home /Apparel

Team Player/ Great Coach Assortment& Promotional Planning

Product Development / Management

Fluent in Chinese (Mandarin & Cantonese) (Speak/Read/Write)

Great work ethic Available to travel as needed

EXPERIENCE

Virtu USA Inc Garden Grove, CA

Buyer/Supply Chain Management 11/2016 – 11/2019

Lead in working with Global Suppliers to manage the procurement process from China /Vietnam/Turkey/India/Thailand/Indonesia. (Direct spend & Indirect spend), order over100 containers per month from overseas.

Source and keep costs competitive while maintaining current supplier relationships. Reduced cost of goods 3-5% and saved over $1million dollars annually, negotiated better terms with suppliers.

Fix the issue of high inventory value but low in stock sellable sets, fix the constantly out of stock high demand products, fix the cashflow issue by improved the turn-over from 200 days to 30-45days.

Plan and implement the overall supply chain strategy, make and monitor production plans, over 18 suppliers make different components across the country under my watch, managing onsite quality control team, keeping defect rate annually 0.001%.

Collaborate with Sales, Operations, and Customer Service teams, discontinued low performance product line and developed new product line to bring in new sales.

Suggest solutions for process improvements such as; material use substitute, design improvement, package testing for lowering COG.

Identify process bottleneck and implement solutions to produce a smooth process, analyze sales reports, inventory report daily, monitor over 1000skus and 25 styles product line to keep the replenishment process always on track.

Work with finance, sales, and manufacturing teams to determine best suppliers. Evaluate suppliers each year to reduce low performing product, and always sourcing to bring more competitive new suppliers on board.

Comptree Inc City of Industry, CA

Home goods Senior Buyer 09/2015-08/2016

Responsible for the execution of the business strategy of online discount Furniture Division.

Monthly for sales over $500,000.

Mentor assistant, associate buyers for continual development and growth.

Create advertising, assortment, and financial plan.

Developing long and short term strategic business plan for 3 department

Leading a category team (Merch. Planning, Marketing, Cat. Management, Visual, Inventory Management)

Identify new business, and develop new product lines by attending tradeshows.

Communicated with vendors to ascertain timely shipping.

Negotiate prices and terms with vendors.

Travel overseas for sourcing & product development

Comptree Inc City Of Industry, CA

Home goods Buyer 06/2015-09/2015

Assist launch new business model of the company-- online discount Furniture Division.

Assist develop seasonal financial plans based on vendor`s profitability and sales trend.

Prepare weekly advertising layout and adjustment to maximize sales opportunities.

Manages and control markdowns incorporating item age considerations.

Reconciled receipts against orders placed for a $2 million receipt flow.

Traced and recapped daily, weekly, and monthly sales to project future sales.

Communicated with vendors to ascertain timely shipping.

Communicate with sales team in China.

Assist Product tastings and customer support..

Management sales report by customers

Weekly comp shop on products and pricings.

Comptree Inc City Of Industry, CA

Apparel, Footwear & Accessory Assistant Buyer 12/2014-06/2015

Assist launch new business model of the company—online flash sale site

Category Includes: Missy, Junior Footwear, Jewelry online flash sale division

Responsible for two depts. with monthly sales over $200,000.

Partner with the planning, visual, and operation teams to achieve company’s sales goal.

Analyze selling to the style level by vendor and lifestyle to identify trends

Manages and control markdowns incorporating item age considerations

Gentek Media Inc Ontario, CA

Assistant Purchasing Manager 9/2012-11/2014

Responsible purchasing machines and raw materials for CD/ DVD replication facility which includes silkscreen printing, cd business cards, packaging and fulfillment

Daily communication with China and US customers.

Assisting in quality inspection

Working with sales team to build forecast.

Negotiating better payment terms and pricing.

LANGUAGE Fluent in English/ Chinese/Cantonese

Traveled extensively to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, India and China.

EDUCATION Gan Nan University

7/2004 Ganzhou, China

Bachelor of Business Administration

Major: Hotel and Tourism Management

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