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Raine Peterkin

Brooklyn

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Merchandise Analyst, Designer Womens and Kid's RTW

Nordstrom
01.2022 - Current
  • Support women's Designer business in conducting item set up activities
  • Complete category, supplier or class specific analysis for buying office
  • Execute MDs, RTVs, and assisted ABP in reorders
  • Manage and maintain drop ship feeds, inclusive of monitoring live dates, shifts, supplier communication
  • Monitor on hand inventory levels for upcoming features and events; communicate concerns
  • Assisted Assistant Buyers with pulling top and bottom selling info in terms of volume, sell through %, class and channel and presenting weekly
  • Make recommendations to buyer and planner based on selling data
  • Work with our Vendor Asset team to assure items went live on time
  • Created selling reports for market prep
  • Accompanied my buyer and buy planner for various market appointments.

Assistant Buyer, Girls RTW

Cookie's Department Stores
05.2021 - 01.2022
  • Perform the administrative functions supporting the buying team, including purchase order management
  • Provide basic analysis of key business data and reporting, as directed by Buyer, including the monitoring of merchandise reports, Open-To-Buy, stock analysis and other ad hoc reports
  • Analyzes business, including selling reports, to provide recommendations to the buyer
  • Select and procure merchandise in conjunction with Buyer in the assigned area of responsibility
  • Develop effective relationships with vendors and appropriately interact with them to follow up on open business issues, as directed by Buyer
  • This includes heavy interaction with vendors to solve problems and follow-up
  • Ensure timely delivery of merchandise through communication with Buyer, merchant teams, and external vendors
  • Ensures adherence to scheduled shipping windows and negotiates late shipping discounts
  • Support Buyers in preparation of key business meetings
  • (i.e
  • Vendor appointments, style-outs, assortment planning)

Sales Assistant / Allocator

Centric Brands
04.2020 - 04.2021
  • Compiled weekly sales by calculating sell through percentage, average sales per warehouse, return rates, etc
  • Entered US and International purchase orders; while assisting with allocating price and unit changes
  • Composed monthly shopping reports and weekly ecom recaps of other brands, competitive pricing and fabric content
  • Assisted with market prep by tracking and organizing samples by category and best selling styles.

Sales Operations Assistant

Vida Shoes International
09.2019 - 03.2020
  • Reporting and Administration- I created efficient procedures and reports/rollups to support sales reps in making key decisions to achieve their targets, as well as, assist with inventory purchasing and assigning
  • SKU numbers on all new developments
  • Account Management- Responsible for the conception, profitability, and communication of existing and new customer accounts
  • Key areas are Dropship and E-commerce that facilitate and lead to an increase in divisional sales
  • Planning- Regular communication with the internal sales, merchandising and design teams to analyze seasonal and annual sales plans and trends
  • This data is then used to target the correct market demographic
  • Liaison- The central channel between the sales team, our internal teams and factories
  • Confirming that all information in the Supply Chain is documented accurately from start to finish
  • Training- Ensuring new and existing sales reps are properly trained in digesting key information from reports and data processes.

Buying Assistant

EGG by Susan Lazar
09.2018 - 09.2019
  • Scheduling and attending market appointments
  • Projecting on order accurately to ensure timely delivery of merchandise through communication with
  • Buyer, merchant teams, and external vendor
  • Timely execution of weekly standard reporting, analysis and recaps by category and vendor performance highlighting business opportunities and liabilities to the entire merchandising team
  • Support Buyer to maximize performance results through collaboration with cross functional teams to maximize exposure of best sellers, and support brand initiatives.

Buying Intern

Dolce Vita Footwear
05.2018 - 08.2018
  • Analyzed selling data on a weekly basis
  • Conducted market research each week
  • Assisted sample coordinator in pulling styles and organizing the showroom
  • Completed projects to assist buying team with daily tasks

Fashion Week Intern

Farfetch
02.2017 - 02.2017
  • Maintained and organized corporate office
  • Scheduled meetings for executives
  • Assisted with projects as needed.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Fashion Business Management, Buying And Planning

Fashion Institute of Technology
New York, NY
05.2019

Timeline

Merchandise Analyst, Designer Womens and Kid's RTW

Nordstrom
01.2022 - Current

Assistant Buyer, Girls RTW

Cookie's Department Stores
05.2021 - 01.2022

Sales Assistant / Allocator

Centric Brands
04.2020 - 04.2021

Sales Operations Assistant

Vida Shoes International
09.2019 - 03.2020

Buying Assistant

EGG by Susan Lazar
09.2018 - 09.2019

Buying Intern

Dolce Vita Footwear
05.2018 - 08.2018

Fashion Week Intern

Farfetch
02.2017 - 02.2017

Bachelor of Science - Fashion Business Management, Buying And Planning

Fashion Institute of Technology

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