Merchandising, Purchasing & Retail Career Research

B Braun Medical

Merchandising, Purchasing & Retail - Purchasing - Allentown, PA

Corporate Identity Promotional Merchandiser Allentown, PA 1994 - 2002  Sourced, procured, and marketed promotional items for corporate name brand identity for employees, customers, sales force, and sales conventions.  Supplied for the US, Caribbean, Canadian, European, and South American operations.

Avg. Salary: $75,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

B Braun Medical

Merchandising, Purchasing & Retail - Purchasing - Allentown, PA

 Screened resumes, set up interviews, performed new hire orientations, prepared personnel documentation, Affirmative Action Reporting  Initiated and administered benefits as: Employee Suggestion Program, Employee of the Month, Employee Service Awards, Holiday Functions, Annual Picnic, and Company Store for 1200+ employees and on budget

Avg. Salary: $75,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Macy's

Merchandising, Purchasing & Retail - Retail - New York, NY

• 7/2013- 2/2015 Macys, DMVC (VA/MD/DC), Center Core, $61M Annual Volume • 5/2009- 7/2013 Macys, Richmond, VA, Center Core, $32M Annual Volume • Drives sales, margin, and turn through rigorous analysis of the business and identification of localization opportunities. Direct assortment-related actions to the RPM/DPM/Central Planner. • Build seasonal financial merchandise plans by store/district, create short term & long ...

Avg. Salary: $99,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Macy's

Merchandising, Purchasing & Retail - Retail - Richmond, VA

• Drive Sales through consistent merchandise execution at store level. Responsible for communicating merchandise execution, strategies, and company initiatives to store teams. Organized by family of business and responsible for 11 stores, $32M annual volume. • Liaison between stores and central merchandise teams to communicate assortment opportunities, competitive market knowledge and localized event opportunities. • Coac...

Avg. Salary: $99,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Sears

Merchandising, Purchasing & Retail - Retail - Richmond, VA

• Responsible for overall (P&L) financial performance of the store. Including merchandise sales, credit and other misc. revenues, expense management, and achievement of profitability goal. • Manage the customer experience in the store, the associate morale in the store, coach and develop an effective management staff, and a diverse, high performance team. • Ensure the store operates in full compliance with applicable laws,...

Avg. Salary: $99,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Sears

Merchandising, Purchasing & Retail - Retail - Richmond, VA

• Responsible for store merchandise presentation standards, partnering with the dept. managers and associates. • Responsible for ad-set-up/takedown, plan-o-gram execution, price change/markdown procedures and liquidating old merchandise. Ensured all signing was in place both promotional and basic signing. • Customer service manager responsibilities ensuring the customer experience was positive and coaching associates as ne...

Avg. Salary: $99,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Circuit City

Merchandising, Purchasing & Retail - Retail - Richmond, VA

• Project manager working with the music/movies/video games/software/toys department. Also coordinated with merchandising department to define needs for each project in terms of fixtures, signs and timelines. • One of my primary responsibilities was to coordinate and schedule projects with the various groups involved to ensure everything were running smoothly and that all elements arrive in the stores on time. • Liaison be...

Avg. Salary: $99,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Talbots

Merchandising, Purchasing & Retail - Retail - Richmond, VA

• Responsible for meeting and/or exceeding store sales targets. Hold store associates accountable for achievement of sales productivity goals. • Identify, communicate, and act upon merchandise assortment opportunities and issues. • Provide leadership through personal example for excellence in customer service. • Ensure all company policies, procedures, and guidelines are understood and consistently followed.

Avg. Salary: $99,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

The Great Indoors (Sears)

Merchandising, Purchasing & Retail - Retail - Chicago, IL

• New store opening Product Knowledge and Selling Skills training manager • One of my primary functions was to coordinate and schedule approximately 300 vendors to facilitate training for the new associates in the store pre-store opening. • Create and Facilitate orientation classes, basic and advanced point of sale classes, basic and advanced selling skills classes and basic internal computer programs necessary for associat...

Avg. Salary: $99,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Sears

Merchandising, Purchasing & Retail - Retail - Chicago, IL

• Associate Buyer for Handbags, Small Leather Goods, and Cold Weather, sales volume of $90.0 million dollars annually in 800+ stores. • Assist in the development of private label product and the negotiation of cost to include subsidies and terms. • Help establish new and maintain existing relationships with suitable vendors, as well as the resolution of termination of vendor relationships when appropriate. • Help to establi...

Avg. Salary: $99,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available