Tiana Kaminski

Men’s Specialized - Socks, underwear & PJs.

MW Sleepwear & Lounge

Responsible for supporting various NMG buying teams across men’s, women’s and accessories businesses covering LOAs and balancing workloads. I quickly adapt to new team dynamics and different customer needs to best drive business. • Supports businesses ranging from $40M-$500M with varying complexities and seasonality. • Impact award winner H1’23 in Apparel division. • Reviewing in-season business weekly to monitor how the business is tracking to KPIs and identify trends to inform return-to-vendor/reorder opportunities based on changing customer needs. • Initiating inventory & profitability management through negotiating RTVs, vendor funded MDs, and improved product margin which contributed to an 100bps margin improvement YoY. Analyzed size selling/allocation need to drive productive business. • Bulked orders and helped analyze buy plans for H2’22. Adjusted pre-season budgets to reflect current selling/ST % and determining the allocation of budget % across subclasses and door clusters. • Ran Faux RP program for hero brand in department, including projections and monthly orders based on sales/need.

Managed end-to-end operations of Nordstrom’s largest Class A Brands including Hugo Boss, Ted Baker, and River Island, representing $175M+ annual revenue. Served as a central liaison between NMG buying offices, suppliers, and DCs to ensure POs are always exceeding EDI deadlines. Responsible for entire PO life cycle from item set up in propriety Oracle system (RMS) to PO approval. • Hosted quarterly meetings with suppliers to coach on Nordstrom business practices, reflect on product performance and eliminate defects to enable on time product delivery to Nordstrom stores and Nordstrom e-commerce websites. • Decrease PO defects by establishing frequent communication with suppliers prior to PO EDI’s via quality check emails. Work directly with Nordstrom Distribution Centers to clarify PO discrepancies and resolve promptly to ease flow of product into Nordstrom’s international stores. Dramatically decreased item set up time by recognizing more efficient and precise way to manually setup River Island SKUs via XLOOKUPS/VLOOKUPS, resulting in 100% on time PO approval and 15% decrease in POW submission from DCs due to PO accuracy.

Digital Ops PO Team • Review, prioritize and manage requests from NMG buying offices, Distribution Centers, Vendors and Internal/External partners to address business needs. • Enter and maintain information within Nordstrom's merchandising systems. This may include item or vendor setup, item or price maintenance and/or purchase order management responsibilities • Communicate and collaborate effectively with team, Merchandise Operations leadership and business counterparts to identify procedures, potential issues and process training • Develop a deep knowledge of merchandising information • Identify and communicate new best practices and efficiencies for knowledge sharing across teams and divisions

Managed footwear products from their post-concept state through merchandising by retail vendors. Served as key account single-point of contact by internal/vendor personnel for all product issues. • Manage and facilitate largest account vendor (SKU count 100+), averaging 2.3 million in product quarterly. • Coordinate with wholesale vendors, Sales, Pricing, Technical, and Product Development teams daily for new product placement detail, procurement, and pricing information for status of commitment and fulfilling multiple deadlines. • Oversee daily operations of vendor account while proactively maintaining positive growing business relationships with retail vendors; review monthly vendor budgets and inventory sell offs. • Directed order detail meetings with full Operation Team – Worked collaboratively in an ambiguous environment to review product features and edit design spec prior to placing orders and requesting samples. • Process, input and track all new purchase order and reorder data information in for M3 ERP computer system (daily valuation upward of $500,000). • Continuous maintenance on all vendor orders including inventory management, data analysis, exit factory details (XF)/ In Fulfillment Center Dates (INDC), changes in quantity, vessel arrangements, and shipment processes. • Constant communication with International/External partners in China regarding order status and updates, vendor guidelines/procedures management, and special product requirements. Synthesizing complex data from product reports weekly to avoid process discrepancies while managing project deadlines and changing priorities on both sides of the supply chain.

• Trained and managed new staff and key associates on company practices, policies and accounting system. • Supervised the ordering of product, inventory control, and merchandising, ability to meet multiple weekly deadlines. • Managed, influenced, and coordinated team of 15+ baristas to ensure consistency of company values/customer service was actively and exceptionally delivered.

• Created and edited visual content and promotional material via Canva/Photoshop for social media pages and company website (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook), used data analytics to determine increased engagement by 15%. • Pitched comprehensive marketing proposals to company owner for approval before execution of promotional strategies to increase exposure of brand based on demographic data collected from Facebook Ads. • Planned/directed professional product photoshoots for digital marketing on social media and promotional material. • Tripled alcohol sales during weekly events from promotional content generated for event campaign and SEO • Created marketing campaigns for 5 events while identifying and tracking impact of campaigns through analytical evaluation.

• Promotes coffee consumption by educating customers; selling coffee and coffee grinding and brewing equipment, accessories, and supplies; preparing and serving a variety of coffee drinks, along with pastries and cookies. • Welcomes customers by determining their coffee interests and needs. • Educates customers by presenting and explaining the coffee drink menu; answering questions. • Sells coffees and coffee grinding and brewing equipment by explaining differences in coffee beans and coffee preparation machines; demonstrating how brewing equipment operates. • Prepares and sells coffee drinks by following prescribed recipes and preparation techniques for coffee drinks, such as, espresso, espresso lungo, caffe latte, and cappuccino. • Generates revenues by attracting new customers; defining new and expanded services and products. • Maintains inventories by replenishing coffee bean supply; stocking coffee brewing equipment; maintaining supplies, pastries, and cookies for coffee bar. • Keeps equipment operating by following operating instructions; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining supplies; performing preventive maintenance; calling for repairs. • Maintains safe and healthy work environment by following organization standards and sanitation regulations. • Improves quality results by studying, evaluating, and re-designing processes; implementing changes; maintaining and improving the appearance of the store and coffee bar. • Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading coffee, retail trade, and food service publications; maintaining personal networks. • Enhances coffee shop reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.