Amanda Giordano

• Manage the implementation of executive administrative, business and personal support to the President, while providing additional support to the retail operations and production team • Organize and oversee logistics for conference calls, in-house/off-site meetings, and luncheons • Manage and maintain the Presidents complex calendar, itineraries, and personal agendas • Manage various financial functions to include A/R, A/P and organize all incoming and outgoing invoices • Provide assistance to wholesale and retail departments on various projects based on the needs of the business • Create materials including letters, documents, presentational materials, expense reports, confidential reports, and spreadsheets; implement proofreading and editing of documents, handle errand requests and perform extensive research • Assist with team building initiatives

• Responsible for on-time, high quality and profitable production • Work closely with design, buyers, and factories during development cycle to guarantee product is being produced appropriately • Ensures that purchase orders are written at intended amounts and placed to correct agent/factory • Negotiate costing with factories to ensure that internal gross margin requirements are being met each season • Manage factory matrix and social compliance including onboarding new factory partners, ensuring that paperwork has completed while maintaining and building relationships • Oversees shipping process to ensure that product is turning over to customer's freight forwarder on time • Well experienced in issuing chargebacks due to compliance desecrations such as shipping violations, packing violations and fixing all the issues causing the chargebacks by working and training the specific department or departments. • Assist the procurement manager with all warehouse related matters

• Assistant to Women’s Division buyers for all Steve Madden categories • Assist on various projects based on daily business needs • Analyze selling data and create weekly business recaps to identify opportunities and suggest course of action • Work directly with Planning, buying and marketing team on markdown and promotions • Liaison between Retail and Wholesale team, aligning selling percentages • Maintain healthy business relationships with vendors while negotiating pricing and delivery • Work with ECOMM and Marketing Team on various projects • Advise on key item styles, provide trends and order samples • Make sure web team is aware of current and exclusive Retail styles • Partner with Marketing team to assist with advise on key item styles or advertisement, and PR lending • Assist Design Team with line building and help provide insight

• Inventory and Procurement Management – track, order, allocate, and coordinate product logistics with the traffic department and external clients ­ Work directly with Planning and Allocation team on re-orders and product replenishment ­ Direct warehouse on orders, inventory on hand, damaged pairs, and product allocations • Vendor Retail Management – Manage relationships with all Department stores • Cost Management – responsible for managing department resources and identifying areas to improve costs via resource realignment, procurement improvements, and cost reductions focused on corporate margin improvement • Product Management – assist with management of all main and bridal product line lifecycle ­ Work directly with HSN, our largest account for 2013 on all buys and reorders ­ Coordinate with production and design teams on product, samples and line building ­ Assisted with launch David’s Bridal which is projected to be one of the largest revenue lines in 2014/2015 • Business Critical Reporting – review and produce selling reports for management to evaluate overall business for Dillard’s, Belk and The BonTon • Assist Steve Madden Planner manage and distribute inventory while helping to maintain and produce internal data