Suzanne Blanchet-Jones
Palm Beach,FL
Summary
To obtain a managerial or leadership position.
Overview
1827
1827
years of professional experience
Work History
Boutique Manager
Patricia Robalino Designs
11.2016 - Current
- Recruited to catapult the brand from a wholesale to retail business in their first freestanding boutique
- Utilize my 20 plus years of working on Worth Avenue to present, educate and recommend ideas for financial success
- Executed all visual displays weekly to keep the boutique windows unique and interesting for curb appeal
- Interacted with clients entering the boutique providing them with informational and product knowledge necessary to make acquisitions
- Assisted in the marketing and promoting the company for the maximum visual experiences thru media and in person experiences
- During Covid, worked on photographing, creating and executing a website for the company
- Presently, maintain and update the website
- Reorganized our accounts receivables
- Currently maintain all invoicing, billing and collection of money on a daily basis and the monthly reports for staff to use
- Execute all financial documentation for the boutique and owners files including the week report of revenues and sales
- Responsible for all jewelry inventory on a daily basis thru knowledge and technology methods
Boutique Manager
Spring Flowers Children’s Boutique
08.1998 - 10.2016
- Responsible for all day-to-day operations of a high-end children’s boutique
- Created store goals, executed the training and hiring of all staff
- Implemented cost cutting procedures to increase the profit margins by reducing expenses during difficult economical times
- Developed an inventory system for merchandise in the Palm Beach location
- Instrumental in the merchandise needs for the Palm Beach location so profits were kept high
- Handled the visual merchandising of all windows, interior displays and merchandise
- Assist clients on a daily basis with merchandise needs and developed long term relationships that have turned into multigenerational client base
- Interacted with the owners only on my annual trips to New York
Sales
Rice & Falkenberg Gallery
Palm Beach, Florida
11.199 - 02.1998
- Aided in the organizing of a newly opened gallery
- Developed systems needed for day-to-day operations of gallery
- Created tracking procedures for merchandise received, transferred and sold
- Maintained all inventory logs
- Organized and assembled gallery shows
- Trained new employees with gallery procedures
- Reviewed and verified all credit card purchase, taxable and non-taxable sales and prepared Florida State Tax form
- Frequently managed gallery while owners were absent
Director/Sales
Dakota Gallery/Christy Taylor Galleries, Inc.
Palm Beach, Florida
12.1990 - 11.1994
- Responsible for increasing sales and developing new and existing clientele in galleries specializing in contemporary glass and southwestern art
- Assisted owner in ordering of merchandise, visual displays and sales negotiations
- Conducted preliminary interviews of employment candidates for various divisions of corporation
- Created and implemented training program for new and existing sales staff
- Developed tracking system for documentation of present inventory, sold merchandise and client base
Education
B.A. - French, Spanish
Emmanuel College
Boston, MA01.1985
French grammar and literature
Institut Catholique de Paris
01.1984
Skills
- Organization skills
- Detail oriented
- Interpersonal skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Client relationship management
- Multigenerational client engagement
- Fluent in French
- Fluent in Spanish
Timeline
Boutique Manager
Patricia Robalino Designs
11.2016 - Current
Boutique Manager
Spring Flowers Children’s Boutique
08.1998 - 10.2016
Director/Sales
Dakota Gallery/Christy Taylor Galleries, Inc.
12.1990 - 11.1994
French grammar and literature
Institut Catholique de Paris
B.A. - French, Spanish
Emmanuel College
Sales
Rice & Falkenberg Gallery
11.199 - 02.1998
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