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E-Commerce Assistant Buyer - Billabong 

Marketing & Sales

I have been working in the surf industry for over 10 years. I have experience in pulling sales and inventory reports, analyzing data, and discovering trends in style/collection selling. I work with ecommerce buying teams to produce seasonal line plans and assist with  product development for global adoptions and third-party goods. I collaborate with eComm Merchandising, Marketing and the brand teams for Billabong, Honolua, Element, and Von Zipper. 

Prior to this I have experience with managing retail stores and coffee shops in order to achieve sales goals. I know how to train teams, merchandise product, buy, and overseeing all retail store operations.

-Prepare and analyze ad hoc reporting related to YOY style selling, collection performance, category/division selling, inventory turn, etc.

-Support Billabong, Element, Von Zipper, and Honolua teams by executing various projects related to marketing activations, inventory management and assortment planning.

-Assist in tracking seasonal inventory deliveries against marketing calendars to identify potential conflicts.

-Assist with buy requests by coordinating size breaks and process request through sales operations team

-Analyze and review weekly, monthly and seasonal selling for Billabong and Honolua. 

-Collaborate and give feedback to merchandising & design teams. As well as work with digital marketing teams to inform marketing efforts based on selling trends and inventory positions.

-Assist with establishing markdowns and markups to stay within margin goals

-Manage assortment and depth planning. 

-Partner with ecommerce merchandiser on marketing calendar related to emails and onsite activations.  

-Share selling trend data with retail and product development partners to help inform future designs.

-Assist the Billabong ecommerce buyers with men’s and women’s assortment through reporting and analysis and own Honolua buys.

-Take part in in line reviews and digital marketing strategy efforts.

-Use PLM system to create style numbers and manage product data for global adoptions and third-party goods.

-Help review website merchandising and provide optimizations based on selling and inventory data.

-Manage San Diego’s Flagship store location with sales of approximately $55,000 per week
-Process all inventory to have it ready for the sales floor and work directly with corporate to ensure the store has all product and marketing needs
-Handle all merchandising to keep it up to corporate standards and maintain store appearance to ensure it aligns with ongoing marketing campaigns
-In charge of all cash control and store maintenance needs
-Direct sales floor activities, assist customers, address customer concerns, and lead the sales floor
-Prepare daily sales reports and regularly use weekly and monthly data to drive sales results
-In charge of hiring, training, and leading the sales team
-Create the schedule in order to maintain an effective labor cost and ensure biannual payroll deadlines are met


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Morgan Owney is an E-Commerce Assistant Buyer - Billabong at Boardriders, Inc in Huntington Beach , CA.

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University of North Carolina Wilmington