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EXPRESS, LLC: Management & Stylist InternshipMatthew Vital
BA 362: Professional Business Experience Final Presentation
Overview•Introduction/Background•Internship Experience•Personal Accomplishments•Opportunities for Growth•Forward Thinking•Updated Resume
EXPRESS, LLC (Background)
• SIXTH LARGEST SPECIALTY RETAILER OF WOMEN'S AND MEN'S APPAREL IN THE US
• 30+ YEARS– FASHION AND QUALITY– LIFESTYLE OCCASIONS AT
AN ATTRACTIVE VALUE
• +560 RETAIL OUTLETS– HIGH-TRAFFIC
SHOPPING MALLS– LIFESTYLE CENTERS– STREET LOCATIONS
EXPRESS, LLCWyoming Valley Mall
• Management & Stylist Internship– Positive attitude– Executing visual displays– Complete floorsets– Assisting in trainings and
orientations– Outfit styling
EXPRESS, LLCWyoming Valley Mall
• Why?– Fashion Design– Fashion Marketing
• Commercial clothing– Retail customer basis– Visual marketing and
execution
• Expectations– Management
perspective– Strong knowledge of
visual marketing display
Internship Experience
• Directed in maintaining floorset looks
• Pulled items from backroom to sales floor– Replenishment– Processing shipment– Redline items
• Aided in shipping items– Redline, returns,
damages
Internship Experience (cont’d)
• Training & orientations– Registers, fitting rooms,
daily tasks
• Custom outfit styling and suggestions
• Reporting end-report data
Personal Accomplishments
• Acceptance & appreciation
• Management spectrum– To execute project
success
• Marketing skills– “PLACE” concept
• Personalize• Listen• Always suggest• Check back & compliment• Express card
Personal Accomplishments (cont’d)Leadership Skills
• Tasking– Follow-through
• Enhance leadership skills– Problem-solving scenarios
• Classroom• Work
Qualities• Hard working• Dedicated• Goal-oriented• Efficient• Timely• Positive attitude• Enjoyment
Personal Accomplishments (cont’d)
Opportunities for Growth
• Challenges & Obstacles– Unpleasant customer
interaction– Return policy changes– Steamer overflow
Forward ThinkingSummer Internships
• EXPRESS– Store Incentives and Events
Intern
• URBN Inc– Urban Outfitters– Anthropologie– Free People– Leifsdottir– Terrain
Forward Thinking (cont’d)Job Opportunities
• EXPRESS– Public Relations Manager
• URBN:– Interactive Marketing Manager– Direct Assistant Planner– Full-time Sales Associate (temp)– Compensation & Performance
Management Analyst
• Pylones USA– Part-time Sales– Full-time Assistant Manager
Forward Thinking (cont’d)
Education• The Arts Institute of
Philadelphia (AI)– Fashion Design, Associate of
Science– Fashion Marketing, Associate
of Science
• Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)– Global Fashion Management,
Master’s program
Up-to-date Resume
The End.