Sarah Pilut

Detail oriented professional with strong organization and time management skills. Experienced in customer service, product assortment, and team leadership. Seeking a Front Receptionist and Office Assistant position with a company that values positive culture.

Assistant Buyer – Hair + Jewelry

URBN – Anthropologie: July 2025 – June 2026

• Curate trend-focused hair and jewelry assortments in collaboration with Buyer, ensuring the mix is customer focused, brand aligned, and supports overall margin and sales goals
• Manage and organize purchase orders for 1,000+ products from entry to delivery, partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure product quality, timely receipts, and inventory flow
• Communicate with external developmental partners from concept to final product sample
• Delegate tasks to Merchandise Assistant, prioritizing and managing the workload of the team
• Lead weekly hair and jewelry business review, discussing and analyzing the prior week’s sales data, trend patterns, and customer feedback; coordinate all daily accessory meetings

Successfully jumped into a fast-paced environment, motivated to reach overdue deadlines with 4-week lead times

Merchandise Assistant – Collections

URBN – Anthropologie: June 2023 – July 2025

• Manage merchandise from thirteen external brands, while overseeing all product activation processes including merchandise passes for internal and co-op promotional marketing
• Cultivate cross functional relationships within Anthropologie including marketing, e-commerce operations, styling, and photo studio
• Consistently present to leadership during key weekly, quarterly, and yearly meetings to showcase consumer trends, assortment strengths and opportunities, and sales goals
• Assort products across all seasons and maximize assortment profitability with an experienced buyer on Anthropologie exclusives
• Grew Collections business by 19% to our projected goal and ended FY25 with over $35M in sales
• Coordinated and maintained relationships with major vendor partners on the launch of Anthropologie Exclusive Tee shirt assortment that rolled out to all stores that drove $1.1M in sales

Supervisor –

Anthropologie: October 2022 – June 2023

• Led the sales floor by driving engagement and customer experience to achieve store objectives
• Supported daily goals, including opening and closing procedures, upholding store standards, analyzing needs, and restocking products, while achieving overall team success

Bachelor's degree in Fashion Merchandising - Iowa State University