BIGTeam Highlight: Why MJ Buendia Calls Herself a “Fashionable Stuff Aficionado”

Maria Jose Buendia, higher often known as MJ, is the supervisor for the BigCommerce buyer success group and presently leads two groups of 10 Buyer Success Managers (CSMs) in North America and three positioned in Latin America. 

As a supervisor, she focuses on rising and creating group members and creating methods which drive incremental enchancment and operational excellence that frequently ends in rising the worth delivered to our retailers. 

BIGTeam Highlight: Maria Jose Buendia

Relating to on-line buying, MJ Buendia is a seasoned professional and, because of her position at BigCommerce, she understands some great benefits of having a superbly curated but helpful web site. 

Find out how she divides her time between scouring the Web to make her subsequent buy and main a group that’s creating huge outcomes. 

How did you get into the ecommerce trade?

Marie Jose Buendia: “Purchasing on-line has at all times been my factor. Throughout the starting of the pandemic and due to my curiosity in social media and design, I started doing a little freelancing on the aspect. 

“For slightly over a 12 months, I helped a magnificence and cosmetics ecommerce model. Initially, I used to be serving to the proprietor with their enterprise technique, however finally dealt with all of their digital advertising, together with creating content material, managing all of their social media accounts, writing blogs and newsletters and constructing a model group. 

“This led me to study rather a lot concerning the ecommerce trade in addition to all the good methods and superior applied sciences on the market to assist scale your on-line enterprise.”

What makes BigCommerce a terrific place to work?

MJB: “Once I consider BigCommerce I consider the phrase collaboration. This actually is an organization that collaborates and works collectively to realize our two most essential objectives: our workers’ and retailers’ success.”

What’s essentially the most fulfilling side of your position?

MJB: “I actually take pleasure in being a coach and a mentor to my group. As a individuals supervisor, I’m eager on empowering and motivating my group members by offering worth and route, allocating sources properly and being open to various views. 

“As a pacesetter, serving to my group with their very own profession growth offers me the best satisfaction; their success is my success.”

It’s Nationwide Hispanic Heritage Month proper now. What does your heritage imply to you?

MJB: “My heritage means all the things to me. It’s a phenomenal reminder of the place I got here from, my tradition and beliefs and the way lucky I’m to be who I’m at the moment due to it. One of the vital fascinating issues about life is that we’re an ever–evolving, consistently altering species; realizing that, whereas remembering my roots, is one thing I’ll at all times take delight in.”

What are your passions exterior of labor?

MJB: “Work–life stability issues to me, so exterior of labor you’ll most probably discover me creating one thing, studying one thing new (something actually!) and exercising. Studying self–enchancment and thriller books can also be one in every of my responsible pleasures in life.“

What do you store for many on-line?

MJB: “Enormous on-line shopper proper right here, however you may positively discover me scrolling by all issues skincare and make-up.” 

In case you had an internet retailer, what would you promote?

MJB: “I’m a stylish stuff aficionado. I might like to promote dwelling decor objects similar to monogrammed paper and material napkins, monogrammed towels and decor books. My focus could be to fill all of the little corners of my buyer’s properties with one-of-a-kind options…however trendier.”

What’s your favourite BigCommerce retailer?

MJB: “Creativity and originality are two foremost issues that at all times catch my consideration when on-line shops. With that being stated, I imagine each Skullcandy and Blissworld are extraordinarily aesthetically pleasing, making them my favourite BigCommerce shops.” 

What do you discover most fascinating about ecommerce?

MJB: “Essentially the most fascinating factor about ecommerce is that it’s at all times evolving. Internally, working for an ecommerce platform, and even externally as a service provider, it’s attention-grabbing to see the way you suppose you’ve obtained all of it labored out and also you’ve develop into an issue skilled, however new developments in expertise proceed to occur within the blink of a watch.

“So simply as we do in life, we soar proper in, study it and consider when to use it.” 

The place do you see the way forward for ecommerce?

MJB: “It has now develop into simpler than ever to purchase and promote on-line, and with all of the developments in expertise and development, I imagine the ecommerce trade will proceed to develop exponentially. This world pattern towards digitalization will proceed to surge forward making it simpler for retailers to succeed in various markets and be globally accessible.”