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.