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Buyer- Women's Luxe & Casual Swim, Coverups, Accessories & Footwear

Fashion & Apparel

• Solely responsible for ensuring optimal performance and growth of all buyer categories
• Maintain all seasonal budgets and OTB by category
• Identify opportunities to increase sales, improve margins, optimize inventories, and decrease markdowns
• Mentor and manage Assistant Buyer to encourage potential growth within the company
• Attend seasonal markets to select product and build assortments for all categories
• Evaluate profitability for in season sales and take action, as needed, to meet sales goals

Buyer

• Oversaw RTW and Swim categories for both Luxe & Casual concepts
• Implemented new daily processes to organize and grow the Women's Casual Apparel category

Associate Buyer

Assisted Senior Buyer in daily tasks for Women's Luxe categories which included RTW, Swim,
Coverups, Accessories, Footwear and Home Goods
• Created seasonal assortments and maintained budgets as passed off by Planning Team

Assistant Buyer-Women's Luxe

• Worked closely with major and specialty accounts to maintain standards of the brand
• Liaised with Milan office to provide accounts with weekly delivery updates of merchandise
• Ensured the receipt of payments from all specialty accounts to Milan
• Analyzed style selling and weekly flash reports from major and specialty retailers
• Participated in seasonal market campaigns, where I introduced new collections and assisted buyers with their orders

Junior Account Executive

• Assisted in market appointments with major department stores and specialty stores from North America
• Conducted competitive market analysis focused on neckwear in the US

Men's Wholesale Intern

Find out detailed information about Samantha Hartman, Buyer- Women's Luxe & Casual Swim, Coverups, Accessories & Footwear in Manhattan Beach, CA

Samantha Hartman: Buyer- Women's Luxe & Casual Swim, Coverups, Accessories & Footwear in Manhattan Beach, CA

Samantha Hartman

LYNN UNIVERSITY

Martin J. Whitman School of Management