Rose Sarabia: Production Coordinator in Los Angeles, CA

• Lead generation, planning and execution via emails, calls, and attending industry-related events • Capitalized on established customer list by personally reaching out and offering new available services • Facilitated weekly production meetings, tracking time sensitive approvals, monitoring T&A calendars, and took corrective action to accelerate development and production issues that would cause delays • Trained account managers and factory teams based in Colombia through creating and presenting SOP instructions, standard policy and procedure with templates and color-coded visuals • Implemented sales support tools throughout the business environment using excel charts for daily task management

• Developed creative brief for brand launch, aligning brand strategy positioning and future prospect partnerships • Examined market research tools and platforms to analyze trending conditions, develop comprehensive market reports and provide valuable insights to drive an effective new business strategy • Remote communication organized with productivity apps and video conferences on Zoom, Slack and Asana

• Proto & PP development, costing, sourcing, consulting, managing, and negotiating with vendors and suppliers to streamlined workflow through to final production • Maintained WIP and time and action reports, managed timelines for sample and bulk deliveries • Communicated comments and approvals for garments, specs, washes, lab dips, and pre-production samples • Effective at establishing enduring, trust-based relationships with key business partners and stakeholders

• Direct assistant and key liaison for sales department manager, strongly supporting large multi-divisional wholesale accounts such as Costco, Nordstroms, Von Maur, C21, Burlington, Ross, TJX, including private label divisions • Purchase Order data entry, contract oversight, inventory control, delivery tracking, and EDI account management • Cross functionally coordinated with department managers on behalf of the sales team, to streamlined and centralized pertinent operational updates enabling sellers to manage account communication proactively • Complied sales proposal presentations, managed department sample logs, and coordinated private label development • Supported brand director as e-commerce merchant, managing website sales, and successfully proposing a creative brief analysis for social media implementation to drive newly established sales goals for one of three inhouse brands