Mac Sabian Belmontes
Fort Worth,TX
Summary
Artistic visual merchandiser and stylist that brings 4+ years of evolutionary merchandising performance. Meticulous and creative with drive for increasing sales, brand awareness, and customer engagement through skillful merchandising. Focusing on building and maintaining attractive displays through floor resets, mannequin styling, wardrobing, and strategically placing marketing/navigational signage to enhance customer shopping experience.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Visual Creative
Nordstrom - Northpark
Dallas , TX
03.2024 - Current
- Maintain knowledge of visual merchandising strategies and current fashion trends.
- Partner with department managers to uphold, teach , and maintain merchandising and all visual standards.
- Support merchandising, signing, and implementation of direction at the highest level with the ability to customize as appropriate to my store layout.
- Install and remove window trim/window presentations for store.
- Execution of the store lighting program.
- Pick, Prep, and Style all department mannequins.
- Fixture blocking and knowledge of space allocation within each brand.
- Inspected existing displays regularly to ensure they were up to company standards.
- Developed creative visual displays to showcase products and attract customers.
- Organized store layout, fixtures and visual merchandising standards.
- Ensured all signage was up-to-date and accurately reflected current promotions.
- Conducted research on trends in retail design, color schemes, lighting, display techniques.
- Maintained a high level of organization and cleanliness throughout the store.
- Presented updated floor plans and design strategy to store management.
- Trained retail staff on visual merchandising standards and practices to ensure store-wide consistency.
- Reviewed and adjusted lighting to highlight key products and create inviting store environments.
- Implemented corporate visual standards via planogram updates, emails and verbal feedback.
- Designed and executed innovative window displays to increase customer engagement and drive foot traffic.
- Collaborated with sales team to align visual merchandising with sales objectives, boosting sales by a significant percentage.
Visual Merchandising Manager
Gap
Dallas , TX
11.2022 - 03.2024
- Provides clear and direct communication of expectations and gives feedback while listening to learn in order to unlock personal and business result.
- Organize and utilize time management and prioritization skills to effectively manage multiple tasks in an environment with competing demands.
- Align visual merchandising strategies and products with company messages, target audience and marketing goals.
- Creates window and in-store displays for retail businesses and managed store overall appearance to market products effectively, deliver visual appeal and stimulate sales.
- Monitor weekly, monthly and quarterly achievement goals.
- Plan and execute commercial displays/floor moves to entice and appeal to customers.
- Prep, pick, and style mannequins with an eye for detail to ensure we capture our products in the best way and inspire guest.
- Lead shipment team and associates to better understand visual merchandising guides and standards for new product arrivals.
- Being an overall manager on duty to drive sales and navigate sales team.
- Dive into metrics to identify wins and areas of opportunity.
- Mapping with microsoft excel for floor sets for new flow/resets.
- Secures all marketing and signage in store including commercial signage, promo signage, price point signage and window signage.
- Strategically maps out where all fit camps, color stories, floor fixtures, mannequins, concepts, and garments land in my building.
- Coach and develop sales team to ensure we are delivering the gap standards.
- Leads markdowns, ship from store, and BOPIS to ensure we meet company deadlines for guest satisfaction.
- Organize and stay up to date with my backrooms to be in the know of what products we have in backstock for guest availability.
- Delegates task to team members to help support our retail business.
- Overview of all of indoor lighting to ensure we are highlighting key moments in store including marketing, overheads, mannequins, shops, floor fixtures, and tables
- Trained new staff members on visual merchandising principles and processes.
Visual Merchandising Team Lead
Target
Fort Worth , TX
02.2022 - 11.2022
- Sells culture by ensuring visual moments are set and maintained to the Visual Merchandising Guide for the guest to drive sales.
- Skills in planning departments daily/weekly workload to support business priorities and deliver on sales goals.
- Implemented corporate visual standards via planogram updates, emails and verbal feedback.
- Styling and maintaining all indoor mannequins while ensuring they are on trend with seasonality and what is current in fashion.
- Monitored weekly, monthly and quarterly achievement goals.
- Being in the know of retail business fundamentals including department sales trends, inventory management, guest
- Executed merchandising and floor moves based on seasonal changes, business needs and trends.
- Presented updated floor plans and design strategy to store management.
- Influence and coach style/general merchandise team members about visual merchandising standards and garment/product presentation.
- Takes care of all in store signage and marketing.
- Planned commercial displays to entice and appeal to customers.
Visual Merchandiser
H&M, Parks
Arlington , TX
01.2020 - 02.2022
- Making sure the store and customer looks great! - Responsible for window and indoor displays
- Making sure the store is fun, seasonable, and fashionable at all times
- Coaching and training colleagues about visual merchandising and garment presentation
- Plan and lead teams during rehangs/new trend moments
- Responsible for all signage and marketing in store.
- Evaluate floor to determine opportunities and rotate garments as needed to keep up with commerciality.
- Pre plan and sample pick for core department rehangs to come out with a smoother transition
- Looking into numbers daily to identify our areas of opportunity
- Trained staff and aspiring visuals to create mini merchants
- Responsible for all aspects of store when it comes to visuals
- Moved and aimed lighting to showcase mannequins and key moments on sales floor and window displays
Sales Associate
H&M, Sundance Square
Fort Worth , TX
12.2018 - 01.2020
- Engaged customers in friendly, professional dialogue to determine needs.
- Met merchandise processing standards and maintained organized and accessible work area.
- Unloading, processing, and running truck/new arrivals.
- Answered product questions with up-to-date knowledge of sales and promotions.
- Supported my visual merchandising team while in development to become visual merchandiser
- Processed purchases at the registers.
- Worked on sales floor to help, welcome, and suggest to our incoming guest.
- Cleaned and worked in fitting room to ensure our guest had the best shopping experience.
Education
Associate of Arts - Fashion Merchandising
Tarrant County College District
Fort Worth, TX12-2024
High School Diploma -
Lake Worth High School
Lake Worth, TX06.2019
Skills
- Time management
- Clear communication and verbal skills
- Organization and prioritization
- Customer service
- Interior and window display execution/maintenance
- Mannequin styling
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Team collaboration and coaching
- Proposal sketching and planning
- Microsoft office
- Documentation and recordkeeping
- Originality and creativity
- Theme and color selection
- Sales and marketing support
- Fixture blocking and lighting expert
- Floor mapping
Timeline
Visual Creative
Nordstrom - Northpark
03.2024 - Current
Visual Merchandising Manager
Gap
11.2022 - 03.2024
Visual Merchandising Team Lead
Target
02.2022 - 11.2022
Visual Merchandiser
H&M, Parks
01.2020 - 02.2022
Sales Associate
H&M, Sundance Square
12.2018 - 01.2020
Associate of Arts - Fashion Merchandising
Tarrant County College District
High School Diploma -
Lake Worth High School
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