High School Business Management

Marie Maloney **-** *** St. Apt. *D Flushing, NY *1367 adx9lt@r.postjobfree.com 917-***-****

Professional Summary

Retail buying professional with 4 years of experience working with fast-paced buying teams in areas pertaining to allocations, inventory management, buying, and merchandising. Also, a recent graduate at FIT, class of 2020 for Fashion Business Management. Skills

- Technical Proficiencies: Retail Math, Excel, Google Docs, SPSS, SAP, KPI Dashboards, QuickBooks, Shopify, Merchandising Systems.

- Merchandising and Inventory Management: Retail, Showroom, Sample Sale, Trade Show, Special Events and E-commerce.

- Buying: Apparel and Accessories (Fashion and Luxury); Home Goods; Beauty Aids; Electronics; Food and Beverages (Fresh and Frozen). Relevant Work Experience

Assistant Buyer August 2018 – October 2019

Restaurant Depot – College Point, NY

- Assisted in buying frozen and fresh food and beverage products for 44 retail stores across the Eastern Coast of the USA.

- Effectively resolved inventory issues, quality complaints, and pricing discrepancies for retail mangers, and store merchandisers.

- Allocated and Replenished products to 44 stores on a daily basis, and assisted in building system scripts by utilizing excel macros to streamline the allocations, replenishment and buying processes. In addition, assisted with assortment planning for 2 grand store openings.

- Generated and formatted reports for meetings and buys regarding sales, forecasts, margins, turns, sell-through rates and open to buy.

- Accurately created, and monitored Purchase Orders, store transfers, truck billing payments, vendor repayments, and foreign wire payments.

- Audited Purchase Order discrepancies in order to process repayments. Also, tracked repayments and updated the corresponding vendors.

- Assisted logistics in remitting billing payments to trucking companies, as well as tracking payment statuses and assisting with discrepancies.

- In charge of daily maintaining the low margin test and elasticity spreadsheets by utilizing excel macros to populate information from generated retail cost reports for underperforming stores and items; and then using calculations on test sheet to markdown retail price in system. Assistant Buyer September 2017 – April 2018

National Wholesale Liquidators – West Hempstead, NY

- Assisted in buying home goods, beauty aids, and electronics. Managed accounts consisting of 100 vendors and over 25,000 SKUs.

- Allocated and Replenished merchandise to our e-commerce store and across 12 retail stores nationwide.

- Accurately created, maintained and tracked Purchase Orders daily, and implemented a tracking system to track over 600 Purchase orders.

- Created a training guide to teach new employees on how to use our merchandising system, as well as standard operating procedures.

- Generated and formatted reports for weekly meetings in order to analyze sales data, margins, turns, open to buy, and sell-through rates. Buyers Assistant August 2016 – May 2017

International Shoppes – Valley Stream, NY

- Assisted a team of 7 buyers in managing apparel and accessories accounts for 40 brands including but not limited to Hermès, Bvlgari, Cartier, Gucci, Hugo Boss, Ferragamo, Coach, Michael Kors, and Longchamp.

- In charge of creating and sending out daily sales reports containing sales data obtained from our multiple retail stores located in major airport terminals across the North East Region.

- Allocated, replenished and transferred merchandise across 23 doors. In addition, successfully implemented a tracking system to accurately track over 500 transfers and provide buying supervisors with status updates.

- Accurately created RTVs (Return to Vendor), price changes, purchase orders, and product descriptions on our Merchandising System.

- Generated and formatted reports for buyers and Vendors regarding sales, traffic data, customer mix information, and profit margins. Boutique Associate - Buying Team Assistant March 2015 – June 2016 Peloton Cycle – New York, NY

- Assisted the Senior and Associate Buyers with allocating merchandise to multiple retail locations nationwide.

- Effectively solved inventory related issues for our retail staff, executive sales teams, and customer experience staff.

- Created SKUs and coupon codes on both e-commerce and retail stores’ merchandising systems. I also created witty and eye-catching descriptions for products sold on our boutique website.

- Oversaw and assisted in shipping out and tracking over 1,000 orders to customers on our e-commerce platform. Later on, assisted with the transition from an in-house storage unit to a fulfillment warehouse in order to meet our high-volume order demands.

- Assisted photographers on photo shoots by tracking and managing merchandise on models.

- Wrote apparel and accessories guides including selling points and brand information in order to further educate retail staff on new products.

- Researched trends in fitness, athleisure and activewear in order to further develop our buying scheme and assortment for new stores. Education

- Bachelor of Science: International Trade & Marketing for the Fashion Industries, In Progress Fashion Institute of Technology – SUNY, New York, NY

- Associate in Applied Science: Fashion Business Management, May 2020 Fashion Institute of Technology – SUNY, New York, NY

- Bachelor of Arts: Psychology, September 2014

Hunter College – CUNY, New York, NY

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