Jessica Parrella

• Manage and train purchasing department staff to foster a team-minded environment, assure proficiency in core skills, and increase productivity and departmental workflow. • Create, maintain & improve upon departmental processes and procedures. • Trained, supervised, delegated tasks to data entry team, ensuring accuracy and SEO. • Evaluate sales, spending, and market trends in order to implement analytic buying methods, ensuring increased profitability. • Tactical inventory replenishment with vendors and distributors. • Monitor slow moving inventory for return, stock balance, or liquidation to minimize losses. • Strategically priced product by analyzing competition while obtaining highest margin. • Web site and database content creation, maintenance optimization based on SEO and competition. • Accounts receivable, accounts payable, invoice approval, GL and account reconciliation, cash management, remote deposit capture, credit card & cash receipt application to customer accounts. • Vendor acquisition, assessment, line management, product evaluation and risk assessment. • Primary point of contact for vendor account managers. • Negotiate product logistics, including but not limited to cost, product availability, estimated ship date. • Reconcile any discrepancies with vendor, including due credits and/or complete shipment. • Exercised and maintained discretion in matters of confidentiality and dealer exclusivity. • Extensive weekly, monthly, quarterly reports reflecting in store sales, internet sales and phone sales. • Vendor weekly item sell through and stock evaluation reports • Executed data transformation en masse and manually, including cost and price adjustments. • Item file maintenance and item cost/price changes throughout purchasing department and vendors, ensuring accuracy of mission critical and time sensitive changes. • Collaborated in conjunction with marketing and executive management to successfully produce biannual on-site camera shows.

• Assisted in placing and reviewing purchase orders for department buyers. • Worked directly with President and CFO concerning products, pricing & e-commerce. • Assisted in developing presentations to communicate strategies for departmental, company and product improvement. • Participated in departmental meetings for new vendor acquisition to discuss financial concerns, risks, market trends and needs of customer base. • Communicated all rebate promotions to the purchasing and marketing departments to ensure strategic placement of items in store and on web site. • Performed in-store and site competitive analysis to assess current market trends and opportunity for growth.

• Processed daily cash, check and credit card payments from club members, inputs data through database and Excel and carries out deposits. • Handled telephone communication, transferring of calls, and customer service for club members, as well as vendors, including but not limited to reservations. • Reconciled account of daily food, bar and golf chits, with follow-up on related issues and closes each business day via database. • Maintenance and disbursement of Petty Cash. • Assisted club members with issues concerning monthly membership bills, account and food minimum inquiries, and credits issued to accounts for gift certificate redemption and miscellaneous charges.

• Updated faculty performance evaluation forms, in accordance with district policy and HR requirements. • Implementation for district employee database accuracy, while implementing data transformation. • Provided support revision of Teacher Performance Review forms.

• Responded to inquiries related to student housing policies and procedures. • Communication and support with tenants, building superintendents, and office staff. • Assisted students with financial difficulties, which included coordinating housing offer acceptances and maintaining corresponding Tenant Management System database. • Prepared, updated and administered signing of leases and contracts with new and transferring tenants. • Processed and updated housing applications via Tenant Management System database. • Created and distributed tenancy letters of verification as requested by current and previous tenants.

• Managed and supported the submission of New Jersey State reports as well as the annual budget. • Ensured efficiency and compliance for district-wide bid processes. • Compiled, produced, and coordinated hand-delivered distribution of confidential agenda packages. • Minutes transcribed and disseminated immediately following corresponding Board meetings. • Coordinated prompt notification of regular, public, and executive Board meetings.