Aaron Williams: Assistant Store Manager in New York, NY

• Ensure the achievement of business goals and strategic projects for the Department, keeping in constant connection with Corporate functions • Recruiting the sales staff and identifying training needs to provide the sales staff with specific training and coaching, sales technique, product know how and customer management. • Ensure appropriate department resources coverage and supervise logistics and stock management and the maintenance of inventory accuracy, in line with corporate policies and procedures. • Write weekly and monthly re-caps covering store/associate sales goals, top sellers, conversion rate, region of shoppers, consignment penetration and department summary percentage of sales. • Designed, manage and took photos for a unique store look-book that would automatically notify all store associates or clients directly to their mobile phones when new product was delivered so they could send clients picture to drive the consignment business. Ex: Client Stream • Attend market fo

• Drove our $6 million business in annual sales in 2012 by; assisting all contemporary shoe buys, actually doing the fall ’12 buy when our associate buyer was on leave, requesting re- orders and transfers, attaining brands we didn’t have previously and recommending markdowns. • Created, manage and took photos for the departments instagram (saks_mensshoesnyc) and social media to creatively drive business. • Write monthly re-caps stating customer and associate concerns towards new product as well as merchandising selling floor of over 500 skus weekly to maximize sales, meet brand standards, and accommodate trend stories with space constraints. • Held monthly walk-throughs for over 20 vendors and sale associates to go over new merchandise and product placement. • Managed all customer issues and repairs, as well as supplies for cash wrap. • Built strong relationships with the operations and visuals teams to execute my task successfully.

• Focus on building client and vendor relationships. • Merchandise the selling floor of over 500 skus.