Retail Sales Associate resume example

Co-owned and operated specialty children's clothing and accessories boutique for 7 years.

• Managed daily operations including supervision of team members.
• Sourced vendors for new inventory and handled all buying needs.
• Increased sales through creative visual merchandising and strategic product placement.
• Developed new promotional strategies to increase sales, customer base and brand awareness through multiple marketing channels.
• Handled financial management, budgeting and accounting.
• Organized store events to strengthen community relations.
• Excelled at building strong customer and vendor relationships.
• Successfully maintained confidential customer information across multiple databases.

Planned and managed national and international fundraising events for large non-profit endurance training program, succeeding in implementation of all pre and post event logistics for up to 6000 attendees.

• Performed site evaluations and cost estimates to meet event requirements.
• Coordinated airport arrivals and transportation services to pre and post race activities.
• Negotiated hotel room rates, secured room blocks and managed rooming lists.
• Organized and arranged pre and post race parties including food & beverage, seating charts, signage, staging, audio-visual, guest speakers, entertainment and decorations.
• Managed event budgets that exceeded over $3 million a year.
• Reconciled event billing and travel expenses.
• Developed and managed detailed master schedule to successfully execute each event.
• Served as senior coordinator for staff, participants and family for over 50 chapters nationwide per event.
• Handled all on-site event logistics including risk management.
• Successfully accomplished organization's mission and campaign fundraising programs and initiatives.

Effectively managed high volume, strategic national accounts for global career services firm including operations, delivery, event logistics, and quality of services.

• Coordinated 95 career orientation sessions for 1000 associates in 130 national hotel properties within 2-week period.
• Arranged service logistics and staffing for 3 on-site career centers within one week of customer’s merger announcement.
• Negotiated over 100 hotel contract agreements within budget requirements for conference services.
• Participated in customer planning meetings to build strong relationships and develop service delivery plan.
• Served as training resource for 3 project coordinators to ensure accurate service delivery.
• Administered project related expenses and customer billing accessing centralized billing system.
• Contributed to development of innovative project management system resulting in efficient method of scheduling, tracking and reporting client activity.