Katie Beaudet

- Lead design team to initiate and develop seasonal design concepts for both dress & sport product
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to create and focus our product designs to ensure market success
- Manage margins by working closely with our cross-functional partners to ensure all patterns are meeting corporate margin targets
- Help drive overall increase of Moderate bookings seasonally:
-Moderate Net Sales of $78.5M, representing 40% of Women’s Footwear Net sales (YTD FY19 through March 2019)
-Moderate Unit Sales of 1.3M pairs, representing 50% of Women’s Footwear Unit Sales (YTD FY19 through March 2019)
-Fall 18 had an +16% in unit bookings, reduced line size by -19% creating a 43% increase in productivity
-Spring 18 increased bookings by 73k units, line size reduced by -20% resulting in a +71% productivity
- Oversee the design work of junior designers; helping them to execute design packages with translation of all technical details, work closely with technicians to correct and monitor each shoe from proto stage through to production
- Travel to China and India to closely follow the development process with our factories

- Worked closely with Senior Design Director to create exciting and new product designs across all categories to meet the seasonal merchandising needs while following the brand direction
- Managed and motivated junior team members workload and time line to ensure design projects are executed according to design briefs; work with them on gaining technical knowledge of shoe making and proto correcting
- Researched the fashion market for current and potential trends that would benefit the brand; Inspirational shopping domestically, internationally, and vintage; attend trend presentations
- Collaborated with cross functional teams including Merchandising and Product Development to create and focus our product designs
for market success.
- Detailed and spec’d all styles based on seasonal color and material needs following current market trends that will benefit our brand aesthetic
- Executed design packages with translation of all technical details and in order for factory to execute correct samples
- Worked closely with technicians to correct and monitor each shoe from proto stage through to production
- Traveled to China and India to closely follow the development process with our factories

- Worked with VP of Design & team to initiate/develop concepts each season that were fashion driven for the our customers
- Research the fashion market for current and potential trends that would benefit the brand; Inspirational shopping domestically, internationally, and vintage; attended trend presentations; met with raw material suppliers to see current trends
- Work with sales team to ensure business objectives are reflected in the product design
- Merchandise the line with VP of Design & team to ensure the assortment is balanced
- Execute design packages with translation of all details in order for factory to execute correct samples
- Travel to China each season to closely follow the development process with our agents
- Finalize product with production and sourcing teams to ensure timely and consistent quality product

- Worked closely with lead designer in creating original fashion footwear on a seasonal basis
- Researched the fashion market for current and potential trends that would benefit the brand; Inspirational shopping domestically, internationally, and vintage; attended trend presentations; met with raw material suppliers to see current trends
- Worked closely with the sales team to understand current market trends, customer needs and for special make-up requests
- Worked closely with technicians to correct and monitor each shoe from proto stage through to production
- Traveled to China each season to closely follow the development process with our agent

- Assisted lead designers in creating original designs to fulfill customer needs
- Worked closely with the sales team to understand customer needs and current market trends
- Worked closely with technicians to correct and monitor each shoe from proto stage through to production
- Traveled to Brazil/China each season to follow up on development with foreign agent

- Was responsible for designing and creating the in-house trend information seasonally for each brand
- Created seasonal company wide trend presentations tailored to each brands specific needs within the Nine West portfolio
- Researched fashion trends by attending various presentations, material/components fairs and by shopping the market for inspiration