Lauren Tihen

Dresses Buyer

Design logos, cover photos, merchandise, and graphics for free lance artists like Cha Bois, Final Approach, and B2G Events (Leon Hendrix concert)

- Responsible for merchandising process from start to finish for one Domestic and two Import womenswear brands: Just Black Denim, JBD Label, Just USA Jeans - Worked alongside the CEO managing the Product-Lifecycle including design, marketing, planning, sales, and production. - Created assortment strategies, developed and selected product that meets financial plans and target customer needs to drive sales and deliver planned business results. - Forecasted trend & market research, implemented design direction, managed seasonal line plans, attended fittings, planned/communicated product launches and marketing content, planned/styled photoshoots and host livestreams. - Managed marketing and sales on wholesale E-commerce accounts (increased revenue by 630% year over year on one platform) - Physical & Digital Trade Show Coordinator & Sales Merchandiser Started in 2018 as Assistant Designer & built up myself within the company as Associate Designer, and In House Fit model, to taking on Sales Marketing & Merchandising, Tradeshows, & managing Merchandising & Design for the 3 brands collections. - Through planning each brands collections with trend research, market research, sales data season over season including by; silhouette, colorway, Inseam, Rise, Fabric, etc. to ultimately manage & lead the creative designs and products we need to succeed for the next season's collection. - When time comes to sell, I am hands on in the preparation of product launches, marketing strategies, feedback of customers, and processing of orders with managing a leading wholesale web platform, known as Faire for all 3 brands. Along with managing Faire I also host all web platform Livestreams on Fashion Go & Faire. In addition, I plan all tradeshows we attend & track sales of them which are; 5-Dallas Apparel Market, 5-Atlanta Apparel Mart, 2-Magic Las Vegas, 3-Fame NYC. -With all the my hands on roles within the company allows me to grow the company in merchandising & designing.

- fully plan apparel trade show events from booth design, set up, sample selection, organization, travel plans, bookings, customer reach out, and more for shows like Magic, Fame, Atlanta, and Dallas for the companies 3 denim brands. - trend forecast and market shop to keep the brands on trend, but also on track to continue target our customer's needs. - Manage spend and sales reports for trade shows in efforts to ensure our growth is efficient. - contact customers for reorders, follow up on trade show orders, retrieve declines, book appointments, create product line sheets specialized to the customer, heavy use of NuOrder, Fashion Go, Boutique Hub, and Fair. - create and present trend and trade show report analyzing the market competitors, current standing, areas to improve, areas accomplished, goals, and numerous design requests for the season that is highest trends for the season. - Manage design and sample team to ensure we are on track with trend, customer, and sales by requesting designs, evaluating samples, choosing an assortment of samples in accordance to fabric, fit, silhouette, wash, color, and overall style to fit with our customer basis and trends. - Assist in marketing by planning photo shoots, styling, editing photos with photo shop, creating flyers in illustrator, creating content for feed, etc. - I am the in-house Instagram model for Just Black Denim and JBD. I am featured with professional photoshoto photographs, videos, and how to styling videos.

- Assisted the senior designers with: apparel designs, tech sketches, line sheets, tech packs, in-house sampling and construction, fittings, sourcing new fabrics & trims, trend/market research, training new team members - Expanded the product line with my designs by adding new silhouettes and fabrics to the brand, which remain high performers today - Other roles performed: Sample Coordinator, Pre-Production Sample Approver, Fitting Analyst, In-House Fit Model, Trade show Assistant, Sales Team Assistant Designed the Spring and Fall 2019 line with the Head Designer, conducted trend research and presented to design and sales team, handled new & production fabric testing, sourced trims, controlled line sheets, made tech packs, assisted and attended sales at client meetings and trade shows like Fame, Magic, Atlanta, and Dallas as a sales rep, assisted in Pre-Production & Top of Production, engaged in weekly fittings, was the in house fit model, trained assistant designers, and helped manage Stitch Fix account on the design team

Worked with a POS System handling $5,000+ in transactions a day Helped develop bar incentives to drive sales and promote the venue Produced remarkable sales consistently in a high intensity environment

Preparing and serving customers mixed drinks, maintaining alcohol stock levels, cleaning, financing and ensuring customers safety

Controlled social media content for Snapchat and Instagram through advertising, marketing, and exposure of a large corporation music festival on a cruise ship. Worked with the Groove Cruise management staff and at least 2,000 of it's customers and followers.

Modeled 2017 spring/summer line and assisted with fitting, garment details, and sewing adjustments.

I assist the Manager of the company One Source Solutions with contacting clients to confirm appointments, sending out calls to clients around the nation to remind them of our services, inputting new and possible clients into the system, answering emails and sending them to the correct associate, receiving voicemail's and distributing them to the correct associate, and distributing new lead referrals for associates to contact about our services. This business deals with utilities, TV, Internet, and home security services. It is made up of appointment setters, product specialist, processing team, business analyst, sales executive, and the general manager that looks over everyone. After my Summer Internship ended, the company wanted to continue my employment while I was at school with recruiting soon to be or recent graduates looking for a job in the business industry. Through this job, I promoted and recruited several applicants who received interviews and jobs while I was finishing my last 2 years in college.

Sales Associate at a fast fashion boutique in Saint Charles, Missouri. There are 3 locations in Ofallon, Saint Charles, and Edwardsville. It is a family owned business with a sister boutique called Marta's. MOD is a fast popular and fast growing boutique as it is in the process of finding a location in Saint Louis and Columbia, Missouri. It also just started it's shipping process and is boosting a online website soon. This boutique is one of the most popular in these areas with girls aging from 16+. The clothes are high quality, priced under $60.00, and limited quantities. I worked with great brands like Just USA/Black denim, Naked Zebra, Free People, MOD Black Label, & NikiBiki. Employees work as a team to meet personal sale goals, day goals, and month goals. We focus on social media to spread out new shipments in and flash sales.

Seasonal sales associate at the Aldo shoes and accessories outlet mall