Jacquelyn Donaldson | Fashion Buying

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Experience

I bring nine years of retail buying and merchandising experience, managing strategies across women’s apparel, outerwear, swim, and plus sizes. I drive sales growth through strong vendor partnerships, market analysis, and data‑led assortment planning while resolving operational and inventory issues to improve efficiency. I contribute to commercial performance by evaluating trends, leading market meetings, and supporting cross‑functional teams, consistently delivering year‑over‑year lifts for key national brands.

A pristine, glass-topped buying desk in a contemporary fashion showroom, holding a precisely stacked selection of premium lookbooks with textured covers, a crystal-clear acrylic tray of neatly labeled buying samples, and a metal pen aligned beside an open planner filled with structured buying calendars. Behind the desk, elegant, color-coordinated garments hang on a brushed brass rail, slightly out of focus. Cool, natural daylight streams in from floor-to-ceiling windows, casting soft reflections on the glass and metallic details. Photographic realism, eye-level composition with rule-of-thirds framing, crisp focus on the desk, and a subtle bokeh background. The mood is polished, professional, and quietly luxurious, reflecting a sophisticated senior assistant fashion buyer’s workspace.
A meticulously arranged flat lay of luxury fashion buying essentials on a smooth dove-grey tabletop: an open high-end buying report printed on thick matte paper, a sleek silver laptop displaying a clean merchandising dashboard, fabric swatch books in muted neutrals, and an elegant black leather portfolio with subtle stitching. Nearby, a structured nude-toned handbag and a single pair of sculptural heels sit as hero products. Soft, diffused daylight from an unseen window washes across the scene, creating gentle shadows and refined highlights. Photographic realism with a clean, minimalist aesthetic, shot from a perfectly overhead bird’s-eye view, shallow depth of field at the edges, conveying sophistication, precision, and strategic thinking in fashion buying.

Senior Assistant Fashion Buyer Profile

Senior Assistant Buyer specializing in specialty sizes and seasonal apparel, adept at identifying trends, optimizing buys, and resolving operational issues to improve efficiency and profitability. Recognized for driving significant lifts across national brands and contributing to major omnichannel and drop‑ship initiatives.

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Role Responsibilities & Trading Highlights

Led end-to-end buying across seasonal drops, managing OTB, range building, pricing, and intake while partnering with merchandising, design and ecommerce teams to hit sales, margin and stock targets across key categories and international markets.

• Drove YTD sales lifts of 60% for GAP Ladies and 50% for American Eagle.
• Earned a 2024 Associates Award for contributions supporting a 7% YoY increase in Missy Branded sales.
• Strengthened departmental performance through KPI analysis, order maintenance, and process improvements in partnership with the Senior Buyer.

A pristine, glass-topped buying desk in a contemporary fashion showroom, holding a precisely stacked selection of premium lookbooks with textured covers, a crystal-clear acrylic tray of neatly labeled buying samples, and a metal pen aligned beside an open planner filled with structured buying calendars. Behind the desk, elegant, color-coordinated garments hang on a brushed brass rail, slightly out of focus. Cool, natural daylight streams in from floor-to-ceiling windows, casting soft reflections on the glass and metallic details. Photographic realism, eye-level composition with rule-of-thirds framing, crisp focus on the desk, and a subtle bokeh background. The mood is polished, professional, and quietly luxurious, reflecting a sophisticated senior assistant fashion buyer’s workspace.

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