Laura Komplin

Responsible for executing and delivering sourcing strategy for 6M units across 4 vendors and 6 product categories • Manage three direct reports as well as coordinating calendar for cross functional departments including merchandising, design, and technical design • Initiated, created and implemented a 30 week development calendar for the denim business • Lead high level negotiations with vendor base on cost and lead times to align with the company go to market process

Manage production and fabric for a $160M department that delivers 5 million units per year • Coordinate deliveries and negotiate costing with 16 factories in 4 countries • Create chase strategies, and partner with vendor and mills to receive inventory within 6-8 weeks • Develop team calendar and testing calendar to communicate with cross-functional partners and insure department plans are met • Manage direct report and work on developing skills to get to next level in career path

• Created an order management charting system utilized by all of Express production and sourcing • Negotiate costing by analyzing garment components and leveraging unit buys

•Manage $60 million private label business; multiple categories for Helix tops, including outerwear, woven, knits and sweaters •Cross functional collaboration with buying, design, technical design, and marketing departments •Negotiate with domestic and international vendors to achieve best cost as per company guidelines •Create and present a cohesive apparel line expressing current trends and past successes •Travel to multiple markets to analyze and forecast trends; including Magic tradeshow in Las Vegas

•Manage $40 million private label business; Helix bottoms, including denim and shorts •Read and analyze selling data to react to current sales •Benchmarking and reporting competition within the marketplace

•Contact showrooms to make market appointments and create schedules for our clients visiting New York •Update contact information for contemporary fashion lines

•Updated comparison shopping charts, created recaps, and compared store pricing •Created a swatch book of best/worst selling prints for bedding •Communicated with vendors via e-mail to guarantee a timely delivery of goods

•Maintained the visual presentation of the merchandise and sales floor •Assisted customers in finding merchandise in the correct size, color and style

•Researched trends and organized information found into creative presentations •Assisted with fitting model to finalize garment specs •Created boards of best/worst selling items to be used in weekly meetings

•E-mailed foreign factories about production updates and discuss timely delivery •Updated production spreadsheets (WIP) for wovens, knits, and sweaters •Reviewed care labels and fabric tests for approval

•Awarded the Henry Donegar Endowed Scholarship, 2008 •Dean’s List for All Semesters •Spring 2010 semester, Polimoda International Institute of Fashion Design and Merchandising in Florence, Italy studied Fashion Merchandising Management; attended tradeshows Premier Vision, Pitti Filati, TexWorld and visited OECD

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