University of Arizona

Cultural Experience Abroad (CEA): Florence, Italy

Assistant Category Merchant at SEPHORA

SEPHORA

Associate Merchant, Digital Merchandising

Assistant Merchant, .com, Makeup

Benefit Cosmetics

Account Manager-Ulta/Target

Assistant Category Merchant, Hair

-Work with Merchant Team to execute Hair strategy by owning all day to day account management for 45+ active hair brands
-Maintain strong vendor relationships by partnering closely to ensure seamless product launches by meeting key deliverables
-Support analysis of Hair business at both category and brand levels to make recommendations on assortment opportunities, identify business trends, and understand inventory productivity 
-Own conducting all weekly and monthly reporting for entire Hair department as well as pull all necessary ad-hoc reporting to analyze and drive the business for both the Merchant Team and all Hair brands
-Work closely with Assistant Merchant to strategically align, assort, and collect product comps for Sephora IGTV and YouTube content based off significant product launches and department trend and goals
-Oversee all promotional execution on markdowns/markups

Merchandise Coordinator, Hair

-Managed daily tactical duties, including maintaining vendor and store relationships, ensuring accurate data entry into merchandising systems and conducting new vendor onboarding for a $132M dollar business
-Created a localized, strategic assortment with Buyer through recognition of market trends and a deep understanding or REI's core and emerging customer
-Drove marketing process for Menswear category to ensure strong advertising campaigns and stories while validating product information accuracy 
-Owned online buisness for Menswear Department, conducted weekly digital sales presentations to the department as well as lead digital business reviews with each vendor causing 4 vendors to seek my help to improve product pages on rei.com

Assistant Category Merchant, Menswear

-Assist Buyer and ACM in assorting all five Men’s Sportswear categories 
-Help execute day to day tactics to help ensure excellent communication within marketing, product information, visual merchandising, and retail operations teams at REI
-Aid in curation of aspirational product stories within the menswear apparel department 
-Work closely with private brand label, aid Buyer in SMU creations for the assortment as well as help lead sample management

Assistant Category Merchant Trainee, Menswear

-Assisted Buyer and Assistant Buyer in all buying and assortment projects
-Identified and reacted to trends in the Junior market; evaluated performance of business in order to increase sales and margin
-Helped to ensure timely delivery of product with constant communications with vendors and Ross’s distribution centers
-Became skilled in RMS and Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, etc.)

Ross Stores, Inc.

Assistant Buying Intern, Junior Denim

-Increased daily sales with store team by maintaining exceptional product knowledge
-Demonstrated the ability to deal with high stress situations in a timely and successful manner 
-Ensured that each customer received outstanding service by creating a positive environment

Courtney Mclean