Lisa Martini

• Current client portfolio yearly revenue - $5.5M
• Understand client’s long-term vision and strategy and drive progress toward key metrics.
• Accountable for operations excellence and client relationship building.
• Responsible for identifying growth opportunities and working closely with sales to provide those leads.
• Possesses consultative and solution-based account management style.
• Participate in client meetings, support the sales process, and on occasion attend industry conferences.
• Own client relationships, retention, and client satisfaction
• Conduct ongoing client meetings and business reviews to understand client need
• Provide forecasts and product direction to the business
• Develop understanding of the market

• Managed inventory control, cash control and store opening and closing procedures.
• Managed store employees successfully in fast-paced environment through proactive communication and positive feedback.
• Completed point of sale opening and closing procedures.
• Maximized sales and minimized shrinkage through excellent customer service and adherence to standard practices.
• Analyzed and interpreted store trends to facilitate planning.
• Scheduled and led weekly store meetings for all employees to discuss sales promotions and new inventory while providing platform for all to voice concerns.
• Approved regular payroll submissions for employees.
• Set effective store schedules based on forecasted customer levels, individual employee knowledge and service requirements.

• Communicated visual merchandising information and standards via in-store training and regular meetings.
• Created look and feel of visual merchandising publications to better target specific audiences.
• Managed merchandising standards and maintained consistency across distribution channels.
• Oversaw visual merchandising for new store openings and store collateral change-outs.
• Helped stores adapt spaces to accommodate merchandise within spatial constraints and inventory storage availability.
• Enhanced overall store appearance by applying careful consideration to product and display locations.
• Created visual marketing and styled window displays.
• Traveled to market, visited vendors and assisted buyers with merchandise selection.
• Created interior displays to promote products in alignment with corporate sales objectives.

• Communicated visual merchandising information and standards via in-store training and regular meetings.
• Created look and feel of visual merchandising publications to better target specific audiences.
• Managed merchandising standards and maintained consistency across distribution channels.
• Oversaw visual merchandising for new store openings and store collateral change-outs.
• Helped stores adapt spaces to accommodate merchandise within spatial constraints and inventory storage availability.
• Enhanced overall store appearance by applying careful consideration to product and display locations.
• Created visual marketing and styled window displays.
• Traveled to market, visited vendors and assisted buyers with merchandise selection.
• Created interior displays to promote products in alignment with corporate sales objectives.

Executive Visual Manager for the Grand Opening of Macys Peachtree store in May 2002

• Directly supervised 2 to 4 visual merchandisers.
• Carried out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the company’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Developed merchandise displays for window or interior use and supervised and coordinated activities of workers engaged in laying out and assembling displays by performing the duties personally or through subordinates

Returned to the position from January 2004 - October 2005

• Managed the promotional calendar activity, established by marketing planner as it relates to in-store signing. Partnered with advertising planners, price change and gatekeeper to understand and challenge strategies, creating strong in store signing, signing simplification, and simple in store execution.
• Worked directly with the Divisional Vice President, Director of Special Events and Promotions, along with the Senior Manager of Corporate Events and Promotions to produce all graphics needed for divisional and store specific events – 2004 – 2005
• Initiate all graphic needs with Creative Coordinator.
• Communicated project promotional details to store by event.
• Partnered with Family Of Business Coordinators for all divisional promotional requirements.
• Managed promotional and storewide graphics budget.
• Managed the Visual Reverse Auction process. Set up, initiate, monitor, and award projects to vendors based on results of Reverse Auctions.
• Oversaw print production process from design to in store distribution