Angela Livingston
Philadelphia,PA
Summary
Knowledgeable professional with experience in retail industry and proven track record of exceeding sales targets and driving efficiency through innovative solutions. Offers excellent communication and organizational skills, with talents for negotiating and building relationships with vendors.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Buyer
Lulus
03.2025 - 10.2025
- Drove assortment planning for tops and outerwear, identifying key trends and opportunities, achieving XX% sales growth in top-performing products.
- Managed vendor communications, addressing setup inquiries and facilitating product development, reducing vendor response time by XX%.
- Maintained line sheets and product data, ensuring accuracy across platforms, decreasing data discrepancies by XX%.
- Fostered vendor relationships by attending meetings and negotiating favorable terms, establishing XX successful vendor relationships.
- Analyzed business performance and KPIs, identifying underperforming products and recommending assortment optimization, improving sales by XX%.
Merchandise Coordinator
Hot Topic
06.2023 - 03.2025
- Managed beauty, eyewear, and fashion menswear product categories, ensuring assortment aligned with current trends and customer preferences across XX SKUs.
- Executed omnichannel purchase orders from initiation to completion, streamlining order fulfillment across all channels for XX purchase orders.
- Enhanced vendor communication by monitoring order receipts and preparing weekly summaries for XX vendors, improving inventory accuracy and vendor relationships.
- Maintained data integrity by updating purchase orders and item details in Oracle system, ensuring accurate inventory and order information through XX updates weekly.
- Analyzed sales reports and communicated performance KPIs, identifying trends and opportunities for improvement, resulting in XX% increase in sales.
Assistant Merchandiser
Parachute Home
03.2020 - 11.2022
- Elevated data integrity by reconciling discrepancies across Netsuite and GS1, thus decreasing data-related errors in merchandising lists by 20% and improving decision-making across the board..
- Spearheaded detailed competitive analyses on pricing and features for bedding and loungewear products, impacting assortment decisions across 10+ SKUs each quarter.
- Created weekly newness reports using pivot tables to analyze sales and performance against plans.
- Rectified errors that influenced critical business decisions by maintaining updated SKU/inventory statuses impacting over 1,000+ products, ultimately improving forecasting accuracy and reducing excess inventory by 8%.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Fashion Marketing
Art Institute of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA06.2011
Skills
- Analytical mindset
- Sales analysis
Timeline
Assistant Buyer
Lulus
03.2025 - 10.2025
Merchandise Coordinator
Hot Topic
06.2023 - 03.2025
Assistant Merchandiser
Parachute Home
03.2020 - 11.2022
Bachelor of Science - Fashion Marketing
Art Institute of Philadelphia