Erin Kyne
Ossining
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Community Leader and Perform Interviews
Third Channel
New York
06.2025 - Current
RTW Merchandising Manager
Bloomingdales
New York, NY, USA
01.2018 - Current
- Responsible for merchandising Ready To Wear department for flagship location
- Provide customer service at all times
- Partner with Operations Manager on Markdowns, RTVs, Stockroom needs, and Transfers
- -40+ Merchandising associates to manage
- -Lead teams in merchandising updates and floor moves
- -Work with Store Design and Construction teams to ensure smooth transition of renovation of total RTW division
- -Partner with vender community to ensure support for big event days. Explain the benefits to vender merchandising support in store, draw up contracts and interview candidates.
- -Educate team on store numbers and top selling skis, work with selling partners to ensure standards.
- -Weekly and Monthly meetings with buying team for each department. Having a voice in new brand selection and needs to ensure we make plan.
- -React to business needs with a sensor of urgency, communicate changes immediately to touch all involved.
Logistics Manager
Bloomingdales
New York, NY, USA
10.2013 - 01.2018
- -Responsible for portion of ready to wear division
- -Merchandising and Operations for the area including markdowns, inventory control, merchandising setup
- -Have team of 20
- -Partnership with Sales Managers, Vendors, and Central partners
Senior Visual Merchandising Manager
Forever 21
Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
11.2008 - 10.2013
- Institute new store layouts and visual display designs quickly and efficiently to meet company specific demands
- Provide customer service and styling assistance including personal shopping
- Corporate Aspects
- Design new concepts for corporate floor sets
- Merchandise with corporate teams that set standards for company floor sets
- Work with Visual Expansion Team as a shop lead nationally and internationally at over 15 store openings, including Times Square and Vienna, Austria
- Assist the field merchandising district manager with numerous responsibilities
- Training
- Act as traveling training manager within the district
- Create visual boards to convey new concepts to team members
- Inform district regarding add on options incorporating best practices from stores under my supervision
- Management
- Manage and oversee daily operation of locations in Dutchess, Westchester and Orange counties
- Work with a sense of urgency to understand the needs of the store concerning visuals and operations
- Responsible for training and supervising merchandising staff
- Schedule merchandising team
Education
AAS - Business
State University of New York
Orange05-2005
Timeline
Community Leader and Perform Interviews
Third Channel
06.2025 - Current
RTW Merchandising Manager
Bloomingdales
01.2018 - Current
Logistics Manager
Bloomingdales
10.2013 - 01.2018
Senior Visual Merchandising Manager
Forever 21
11.2008 - 10.2013
AAS - Business
State University of New York