event stylist/coordinater
Me & Riley Contemporary Events Management
Total years of experience :15 years, 2 Months
• Liaising with clients and determine event requirements
• Preparing and styling of events as per client`s needs and requests
• Liaising with vendors and suppliers to prepare event items and book services
• Setting and packing up, and cleaning of events
• Office and warehouse maintenance
• Run errands and any out of office requirements
• Additional tasks as per required to ensure successful events and positive team environment
•liaising with teams such as buying, marketing and management to create design themes and plans, including window and in-store displays and signage •conduct and attend meetings with business colleagues, sales managers and retail managers to discuss sales strategies •identifying and sourcing props, fabrics, hardware and lighting •maintaining a budget and negotiating with suppliers of visual materials for local production and installations costs •attend meetings at H.O with managers to ensure that the Fashion division is updates •working with architectural features and VM props of stores to maximize the available space •communicate visual guidelines including principles layout, visual dressings and signage •assembling or dismantling visual displays in windows or in-store •assisting, leading and motivating teams and colleagues to complete displays to tight deadlines •seeking feedback from colleagues and management on the visual impact of displays and implementing changes •plan the store display for the year, creating visual plans and buying the appropriate models, props, equipment and signage, out-sourcing and ordering stationary and equipment •prepare presentations of visual concepts, for new ideas, projects in process and for completed assignments, taking on the entire installation projects from start to finish •communicating with brand principles to ensure our stores are aligned with brand expectations
*Merchandise and display collections on the floor, ensuring that brand standards are maintained
*Ensure merchandise has been steamed, properly tagged and priced as per guidelines
*Help maintain visual merchandise guidelines and standards throughout the store
*Work with VM Management to ensure store and brand standards are executed on floor and understood by sales team
*Implement store signage programs according to commercial guidelines
*Support store promotions and sales events
*Ensure that stock room assistants maintain and organize the stockrooms as per company standards
*Monitor slow and fast sellers and communicate observations to the visual merchandiser with suggestions and recommendations for appropriate actions
*Attend training sessions conducted by buyers to ensure that display standards are maintained
*Support the stock takes for the store
*listening to customer requirements and presenting appropriately to make a sale
*aiming to meet or exceed sales targets
*feed back for buying trends to buyers and frontline management
greeting them, offering them assistance
*suggest and advise customers by providing information on products
*help customer make selections by building customer confidence, offering suggestions and opinions.
*create & update personal customer profile records
* totaling purchases and processing payments
*basic boutique operations
*welcome customers by greeting and offering assistance
*advise customers by providing information on products
*create or update store customer profile records
*total purchases and process payments
*stock counts
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Matric certificate