Mallory Murphy: Buyer in Los Angeles, CA

Devised seasonal merchandise plans by monitoring weekly sales, analyzing style performances, and market trends; fill assortment plans, ensuring that merchandise concepts are aligned with assortment strategies. Conducted weekly analysis of stock-to-sales ratio by merchandise category, identifying trending and underperforming lines and best sellers to provide actionable recommendations to buyers for improving merchandise mix.

• Assisted with creation of ongoing Accessories product strategy and calendar to allow increased responsiveness to business • Hindsight global buys by analyzing attribute selling, weekly partner selling, and business trends • Create quarterly trend recaps and competitive analyses

• Directly responsible for launch of new Girl's Concept stores in Asia as well as continuing to develop and execute Women's Apparel line from concept through production, taking into account all international channels' needs • Assisted with creation of ongoing Apparel product strategy and calendar to allow increased responsiveness to business • Hindsight global buys by analyzing attribute selling, weekly partner selling, and business trends • Create quarterly trend recaps and competitive analyses • Manages a Merchandising Assistant for each Product Category

• Assisted in developing and executing Girls and Intimates lines from concept through production across wholesale, retail and e-commerce channels • Bought for 78 domestic retail stores, creating pricing and promotional structures to meet OTB and margin goals • Coordinated buy meetings with over 100 international partners each season, presenting the line with Design and Sales • Managed style creation, POs creation and maintenance, markdowns, promotions and all systems work

• Provided high-level administrative support to the CEO, CFO and Operations Administrator by performing clerical functions such as arranging conference calls, scheduling meetings, managing calendars, and receiving visitors.