Fashion

Lifestyle

Streetwear

Assistant Department Manager

Fashion Merchandising & Management graduate with an eclectic seven year experience mix of buying/planning, merchandising, management, merchandising, retail sales and styling.

Assisting department manager with day to day business tasks. Setting and merchandising floor. 
Assist the department manager in achieving department volume and productivity goals by developing and executing a business plan. 
Partner with the department manager to ensure the customer receives the best quality, value and selection.
Work with the department manager to ensure merchandising and presentation standards are met. 
Teaching and coaching team. 
Assist the department manager in ensuring accurate inventory management and achieve shrinkage goals. 
Leading by example. 
Scheduled MIC shifts.
Responsible for Women’s department Twitter updates, engaging via social media to gain followers. Increase product knowledge and sales with product images and engaging verbiage.

Setting, meeting and exceeding sales goals.
Providing outstanding customer service. 
Top percentile in department, top volume – UPT, top SPH. Contributing 166% to department in sales.
Building trusting relationships with customers, maintaining customer relationships, repeat customers, appointment based selling.
Providing honest and beneficial feedback on style and fit per customer.
Use of social media to drive personal sales. 
Employee of the Month for March 2013.

Sales Associate

In depth education and history on Nordstrom and the company culture.
Attending seminars on leadership and management. 
Learning how to coach, develop, mentor and teach a team.

Future Nordstrom Leaders

Social media marketing, tracking of online statistics. 
Product shoots for blogging and assisting on building e-commerce site.
Art Director for window displays, merchandising, new store logo, signage.
Customer service, vendor relations, data entry in ordering/receiving merchandise.

Social Media Specialist/Visual Merchandiser

Attention to customer needs. Large emphasis on client management.
Customer service. Merchandising. 
Product knowledge to further showcase a desire for customer.
Networking to gain larger customer base.

Wardrobe Consultant

Strategically delivering words. Meet deadlines, turning information into creative content outfitted to audience.
Social media marketing to reach targeted audience and expand social media awareness and followers.
Adobe Creative Suite, MS Office, SEO, fact checking, creative writing.
Compiling Excel spreadsheets for editorial calendar and scheduling.

Contributing Writer

Produced creative design solutions.
Pulled accessories. Back of house management.
Attention to detail. Strong verbal and written communication. 
Attention to global fashion trends.

Assistant Stylist

Execution of bi-monthly window displays, full creative control. Resulting in increases in sales per merchandise displayed.
Ran social networking sites to gain a larger awareness.
Planning and execution of events for product releases, press release write-ups.
Customer service, seamless teamwork, vendor relations.
Attention to fashion forecasting on buying trips. Attendance to – S.L.A.T.E., Pool, Project, Magic for 4 trips. 
Success in sought out lines, developing an increase in annual sales.

Associate Buyer/Social Media Specialist/Visual Merchandiser

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Jennifer Tonumalepea: Assistant Department Manager in Seattle, WA

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