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Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Managing a complex vendor matrix with multiple countries of production for key Target bedding brands such as Room Essentials, Threshold, and Opalhouse Jungalow totaling an annual revenue of $397M.
• Collaborated with cross functional partners to deliver a successful 2024 Room Essentials rebrand, which met our margin goals, designer’s aesthetic and material needs, and Sourcing’s 100% recycled polyester conversion.
• Discovered cost savings of $262K in key decorative pillow development, by vacuum packing all pillows and ultimately improved margin by an average of 6.5%.
• Navigating Target’s country of production diversification goals by developing our Pakistan and India partners, successfully diversifying 20% of our 2024 business out of China.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Managed inventory for four seasonally driven departments in Bicycles, Physical Fitness, Team Sports, and Outdoor Recreation totaling $650M in revenue and 1000 store items.
• Drove an $80M increase to sales and achieved a 19% 2-year CAGR in 2021, while facing a 4% higher out of stock rate, by frontloading and positioning special purchase seasonal items, partnering with vendors, and.
• Influenced over 70 vendors on inventory management decisions while balancing budget constraints, supply chain delays, network capacity risks, and special program prioritizations.
• Earned Ad captainship for the Sporting Goods division, analyzed risk across all circular offers and provided weekly visibility to team and leadership, which resulted in improved out of stocks for 11 consecutive weeks.
• Spearheaded the rollout to a new ordering system and created a standardized weekly ordering process in collaboration with the Global Inventory Management Modernization Team, which is now being leveraged by other Target.

• Partnered with the Amazon account’s demand planners to learn vendor relations, laddering, and overall forecasting processes for existing items and new item launches.
• Developed analytical skills by running daily reports to maintain inventory, open orders, and late containers for the DRP team.
• Delivered a final presentation to senior leaders that demonstrated the importance of forecast accuracy and provided recommendations on how to improve the forecast processes.

• Built strong customer service skills by assisting guests with requests ranging from finding items, loading cars, bagging groceries, and being a positive last point of contact.
• Became a reliable hard working employee, earning a promotion in less than a month.