Sales Quality Assurance
Resume:
Jaclyn Gardner
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Professional Profile:
A dynamic and resourceful individual with both creative and analytical strengths. A self-driven leader with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and willingness to learn. Expresses strong desire to achieve success in a fast paced atmosphere with the ability to effectively build and maintain quality relationships.
Experience:
QVC Corporate, West Chester, PA
May 2010 - Present
Merchandising Trainee (formerly a Merchandising Intern)
• Work in a team environment; analyzing individual and categorized businesses and ways to increase them while introducing innovative product to feed customers wants and needs
• Focus on inventory control by analyzing return rates, productivity and reviews, and responding by processing RTVs in a timely manner and generating dollars for our EOM goal.
• Manage and track products from development aspect to airing; including the quality assurance process, which involves internal and external communication.
• Create and present competitive shops analyzing retail pricing for exact/similar products, used strategically during an items sell.
• Attend vendor meetings involving product development and planning strategies for many high profile celebrity and designer brands.
Zinni’s of Philadelphia Dress Shop, Springfield, PA August 2008 – June 2011
Stylist; Assistant to the owner
• Work on the sales floor as a leading sales associate and stylist assisting a variety of ages.
• Responsible for constantly updating visuals; floor and window displays.
• Manage all return approval requests for damaged/wrong/late goods and responsible for returning in timely manner.
• Use Excel to track merchandise sold; initiate weekly goals by doing year-to-year comparisons and use that to motivate my co-workers.
Tanology Solariums, Springfield, PA June 2005 – May 2010
Manager
• Responsible for scheduling ten employees; reporting/handling payroll and bank deposit.
• Create marketing strategies to increase sales via advertising and social media.
• Decision-maker for inventory, while building and reasoning with a budget.
• Responsible for preparing a report including numbers for payroll, total sales and expenses.
• Ability to effectively communicate and engage in conversation with countless customers.
Awards/Recognition:
• Awarded the Presidential Scholarship for Winter 2011 at The Art Institute of Philadelphia.
• Received multiple “Best of Quarter” awards for classes in Retail Math, Merchandise Management, and Apparel Evaluation and Construction.
• Recognized for maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.9.
• Multiple awards and scholarships for my education in dance from NYCDA, CO Dance, Broadway Dance Center, The Pulse, FOX Good Day Philadelphia Dance Team and Touch of Class Dance Studio
Education:
The Art Institute of Philadelphia Temple University
Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia, PA
B.S., Fashion Marketing, June 2011 Journalism (2006-2008)
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