Crystal Pittman

Home & Holiday Décor Buyer @Roger's Gardens

Newport Beach, California, United States

- Responsible for Home & Holiday Décor Concept & Trend Direction. - Directly Managed & Purchased Assortments for 30 unique Home & Holiday Décor Categories. - Halloween 2023 sales increased +24% to 2022 and achieved a 96% sell through at reg price. - Increased the 2023 Artificial Christmas Tree assortment sales margin by 15 points over LY. - Participated and presented Décor assortments on live National News Segments. - Traveled to International & National Trade Shows for Buying

Holiday Décor Buyer @Roger's Gardens

Newport Beach, California, United States

- Strategically bought, developed, and managed Holiday, Artisan Collectibles, and Home Décor categories. - Increased seasonal business +22% between Q1-Q3 for 2022, surpassed Q4 sales plan. - Halloween STD business increased +11% to 2021, and captured a 95% sell-through at regular price inventory. - Partnered with the Creative Director and Head Merchant on assortment strategies and concepts. Traveled to national and international trade shows. Worked with factories directly on custom developments. - Issued and managed all PO’s, international wire transfers, container shipments, and negotiated cost in order to protect and increase margin. - Created, organized and implemented excel spreadsheets for planning and reporting needs. - Worked closely with the Marketing team to create social media content, style emailers, host live-streams, and write copy.

Apparel Buying @Free People

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

- Optimized sales opportunity with little markdowns by understanding TY/LY/LLY product, sales, and customer needs while identifying fashion trends and assortment needs on a week to week basis. - Analyzed daily, weekly, and monthly reports. Managed stock, on-orders, and attribute reporting - Assisted in managing monthly receipt plans and inventory, presented product and financials in weekly and monthly meetings. Created line plans, passed buys and color flow strategy for each delivery. - Managed and issued all purchase orders for direct, retail and wholesale channels. - Responsible for sample coordinating and management. - Managed weekly ecomm styling. - Negotiated IMU and built strong, long-lasting relationships with vendors. - Worked closely with market and in-house design team to fit and color each design and ensure each delivery had a wide variety of styles, deep assortment of color, and silhouettes for the FP customer while offering price pointed and high AUR pieces.

Visual Manager @Free People

Los Angeles

- Responsible for driving sales, all product merchandising and visual display and installation. - Managed 2 Los Angeles locations and led teams to consistently surpass monthly and quarterly sales plans, and actively managed loss prevention. - Thorough understanding of product sales and goals, velocity reporting, payroll, consumer behavior, and brand representation. - Assisted in corporate walkthroughs, and curated content for LA social media platforms. - Assisted in merchandising and display installation for new store openings and focused daily on impactful training techniques and employee/store development.

Visual Stylist & Sales @Nordstrom

Irvine, California

- Responsible for department merchandising, sales, loss prevention, and built strong customer relationships.

Marketing & Visual Coordinator @Muse Lifestyle Group

Los Angeles, California, United States

- Experienced in budgeting and handled performer contracts, payroll, and managed the booking of models for special events. - Managed numerous social media platforms and assisted in event coordinating, display, and marketing.

Merchandiser & Sales Lead @Victoria's Secret

- Assisted VS Corporate team in merchandising and trained sales associates for new location openings. - Responsible for merchandising, sales, and loss prevention. Developed new merchandising and selling techniques at high volume locations.

Holiday Display Assistant & Holiday Stylist @Areo

Laguna Beach, California

Stylist Intern @CAbi - Carol Anderson by invitation

Orange County, California Area

- Responsible for styling and capturing sales during CAbi Trunk Shows.

FIDM

Associate of Arts - AA · Beauty Industry Merchandise Marketing