Merchandise Buyer

Robin Saunders
604 Harmony Lane
Pleasantville, CA 94588
(925) 555-1234

PROFILE

Men's merchandise fashion coordinator with over 18 years of experience researching and buying men's fashions. Demonstrated success in marketing strategies, trend analysis, buying, negotiating, merchandising, and promotion in rapidly changing and highly competitive environment.

EXPERIENCE

Fredrick's, Inc., Ballerford, KY
1998 - Present
Men's Merchandise Fashion Coordinator
Led company fashion direction for young men's target market reporting directly to company President. Researched fashion, color, trends, and products, traveling to New York, Los Angeles, and Europe. Facilitated fashion concept development meetings. Directed design, development, and production of product knowledge information. Conducted retail sales staff training sessions.

Determined and communicated to retail outlets signing recommendations, fixture needs of products, and point-of-sales strategies. Teamed with marketing and visual departments to ensure effective merchandising and visual display presentations at store level. Researched new marketing methods in an ongoing effort to increase impact on target customer.

• Generated $30 million out of $100 million in total revenues. Gross margin of 5 departments exceeded that of total men's departments by 1-4% average.
• Increased men's department revenues from $12 million to $100 million and from 100 stores to 400 stores in 11 years.
• Developed successful and profitable private label cologne, 'Allure.'

Fredrick's, Inc., Ballerford, KY
1995 - 1998
Merchandise Buyer
Performed all merchandise purchasing, planning and promotional strategy to maximize sales volume, gross margins, and inventory turnover for assigned departments in all retail outlets nationwide.

• Achieved annual sales volume in excess of $25 million as result of highly-effective management.
• Maintained high purchasing standards through proper training of 5 assistant buyers.

Fredrick's, Inc., Ballerford, KY
1983 - 1995
Assistant Buyer / Classification Merchandiser / Assistant Manager

TRAINING/EDUCATION

• MS Word • MS Excel • MS Outlook
• Lotus • Retail negotiating • Communication
• Time management • Teambuilding • Leadership

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