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Planner for Shoes, Jewelry, Hair, Beauty, and Accessories.

Planning Jewelry, Hair, Beauty, Junior Accessories, and Junior Plus Apparel;  Created Financial Budget Plans for respective areas for FY ’13 and FY ‘14; Manage Sales, Inventory, Receipt, Margin, IMU, and Markdown forecasts monthly to lock down as Target Plans; Update Sales, Inventory and Receipt Plans in weekly Forecast; Recap prior week’s business by Class, Region, Store; Project a Daily Sales forecast for all Departments in Wet Seal; Create Store Clusters based on Sales Analysis for special programs and Regional programs; Work side by side with Jr. Plus buyer in assortment process for Online Launch in Nov. 12 and In Store Launch in Feb. 13; Manager of all Trend Coding and Theme Recapping for all Departments in Wet Seal; Positive Comps in both Jewelry, Hair, Beauty, and Accessories during all of 2013 planning; Manage Markdowns for Promotion and Clearance each week for each department; Enter Markdowns into system; Communicate daily with cross-functional teams in Allocation and Buying; Attend weekly OTB meetings and recommend pricing and promotions along with give product feedback.

Associate Planner

September 2010 Buyer for Hair Care, Hair Color, Hair Accessories; In October 2011 added Family Planning, Feminine Hygiene, and Incontinence to Buying responsibility;   In February 2012, gave up Family Planning/Protection departments and added Travel Trial, Sun Care, Skin Care, Hand and Body, Bar Soap Body Wash, and Liquid Hand Soap; drive sales by choosing trend-right assortments, create “Big Ideas” within assortments, create easy navigational planograms for the customer, collect monthly allowances from vendors, forecast sales and profit monthly, negotiate terms with vendors, bid for and allocate future advertising, plan future off-shelf promotions, communicate with stores on execution of merchandising, plan financials by season and category,  maintain strong relationships with vendors, and manager to Buyer’s Assistant.  I worked with Vendors to create and launch Shopko private label in All Beauty categories along with product development in Accessories.

Associate Buyer

Trained with Business Analyst and Buyer in different divisions to learn daily responsibilities and job tasks; Met weekly with Senior leaders to talk about business, strategies, and projects; Worked on various projects including Ad Walk off process, Big Idea, and EMT project guide for Senior Leaders as well as specific projects for Buyer Trainer (Comp. shop grid for Sheets and Bath, Summer Beach Towel competitive landscape and Summer 2011 recommendations); Created a Big Idea in the Apparel Division introducing a new brand targeted towards a new customer for Shopko; Presented Big Idea project to Senior Leaders as well as Buyers, Trend Department, and Advertising.

Executive Merchandising Trainee

Providing superb customer service in order to build and maintain relationships with customers, rating inventory and new orders and faxing comments to buyer on a weekly basis, suggesting new items and styles for the store, creating trendy styles for store displays, preparing and recording daily accounting information, and performing transactions on the cash register. Performed market research and created marketing strategy for my internship project.

Merchandising Intern-In Stores

Find out detailed information about Brittany Zoll, Planner in Newport Beach, CA

Brittany Zoll: Planner in Newport Beach, CA

Brittany Zoll

Wet Seal

Wet Sear

Shopko

Shopko

Pitaya

University of Wisconsin-Madison