Andrea Schaffer Email & Phone Number

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Facilitated the reorganization, promoting, and onboarding of 52 associates on the Modular and Space teams into the Apparel Space Excellence and Innovation team.
• Spearheaded the launch of Omni Category Advisors in Apparel
• Redefined ways of working and implemented processes to transform how the team analyzed results, developed modular strategy, and executed floor plan changes.- Implemented the full categorization of the Apparel.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Managed cross-functional team of 52 merchants, financial planners, replenishment, product development, site operations, and modular development.
• Trained, led, and developed a team of 16 financial planning and replenishment associates with direct and indirect reports
• Championed the Store of the Future Initiative across Apparel changing our rollout methodology to ensure appropriate levels of inventory arrived for store grand openings
• Analyzed business metrics, forecasted performance, and established plans to meet omni financial targets for Kid’s Apparel

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Managed cross-functional team of 26 merchants, financial planners, replenishment, product development, site operations, and modular development.
• Trained, led, and developed team of 12 associates with direct and indirect reports representing almost $2 billion in sales.
• Delivered $600 million-plus over GMV budget by developing and executing core business strategy across multiple years and seasons, and collaborating with suppliers, operators, and internal associates.
• Led merchandise strategy and execution for hard lines on fourth-quarter holiday and second-quarter category action teams, simplifying processes for teams while delivering 15% increase to plan and 21% increase to LY on.
• Spearheaded associate recruiting for hardlines, interviewing 150-plus people and hiring 40-plus to build out Omni Merchandising team.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Coordinated Hart brand launch (Largest Brand Launch in Hardlines History) across multiple departments, dotcom, marketing, supply chain, store operations, asset protection, fixture procurement, replenishment, and.
• Partnered with 80-plus unique suppliers to exceed all financial metrics for five consecutive years in hardware tools and power categories. Grew business by more than 26%.
• Negotiated costs on 1,000-plus items due to tariffs and RMB deflation impacting business.
• Established mentor circle to train and develop associate buyers across hardlines.
• Won Omni Impact Award in 2020 for Hart brand launch team
• Named General Merchandise Buyer of the Year in 2018.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Implemented new multi-department tool relay strategy in 500 stores resulting in 25% growth by analyzing industry trends, selecting new assortments, changing items displays, and working cross-functionally across.
• Established relationships and negotiated with 60 suppliers within hardware tools categories.
• Developed and trained associate buyer for power business.
• Senior Buyer role is now known as Senior Merchant

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Drove execution of multiple business plans for cakes and pies categories by improving quality of items and identifying operational needs to grow market share and improve profitability.
• Negotiated several contracts with suppliers to lower costs and upgrade the quality of the items
• Developed and created all-new cake desserts strategy to meet demand for smaller portion trends within business, driving 2,500-plus basis-point change in overall category.
• Improved the business intelligence for the cake case modular’s by converting from 60% text block to 100% UPC driven modular’s
• Established relationships and negotiated with 50 suppliers within cakes and pies categories.
• Coordinated execution of holiday pie flow by collaborating with merchandise execution, operations, replenishment, and planning to drive pie business 16% versus previous year while gaining 117 basis points of share in.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Directed 3 members of the planning team in development and execution of the Beauty Department's $4.7B financial plan by ensuring consistency in planning processes and application of best practices across category teams
• Partnered with the Vice President of Beauty Merchandising to develop and implement department's financial strategy by modeling, analyzing, and evaluating the impact of key variables (for example, seasonal events.
• Aggregated departmental budgets; prioritized and made tradeoffs across multiple category teams within the portfolio and developed and communicated category team level targets to direct reports
• Ensured key financial metrics on the Beauty Department’s P&L were met by reviewing annual, monthly, weekly, and daily projections against actual results and re-forecasted with direct reports
• Prepared financial analyses and reports to understand and explain business trends and performance and communicated exceptions, risks, and recommended actions to senior management and other stakeholders
• Supported operations of cross-functional category teams by leading teams in prioritizing merchandising events and making trade-offs across subcategories to meet budgeted inventory and sales projections

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Managed the P&L review for the Beauty Department and evaluated with the Consumables Business Unit managers to evaluate corrective actions for the upcoming months
• Executed the P&L of the Color Cosmetics and Beauty Accessories category groups totaling $2B in Sales and maintained forecast accuracy of 99.29% for sales and 98.63% for inventory
• Prepared and revised the Color Cosmetics and Beauty Accessories budgets at subcategory/day level
• Collaborated cross-functionally with Merchandising, Replenishment, and Pricing to achieve budgeted sales, inventory, margin, and profit
• Subject matter expert for the Feature Planning Tool within the Consumables Division and managed the Beauty Department monthly alignment meetings
• Coordinated, analyzed, and executed markdown plans for Color Cosmetics and Beauty Accessories

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Established the Supply Chain Planner position, expanded the role into a team with a direct report, formed the processes, and directed team strategy and goals
• Designed and managed a multi-billion dollar flow plan for the TV category by collaborating with and providing recommendations to Merchandising and Replenishment
• Developed a channel decision costing model and managed the inventory flow for Black Friday 2008, tripling the volume over 2007
• Planned and executed merchandise distribution of $400M in sales for Black Friday 2007
• Worked cross-functionally with Replenishment, Merchandising, Logistics, Transportation, Modular Planning, Global Supply Chain, and suppliers to complete numerous projects
• Created an Access tool to find fixed order points that has saved over $50M in inventory cost while retaining the same level of sales

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Developed CAPS Supply Chain Designer models for variety of logistics networks
• Completed network analysis on the SAM's Club $380M network which could reduce total transportation costs by $141M over 5 years, utilizing optimization software
• Created Access database to improve forecasting time commitment and then revamped the process in Forecast Pro to obtain 10% more accurate results
• Produced a sensitivity analysis to determine network capabilities for the $820M Pharmacy network and then extrapolated the information into a 5 year plan
• Logistics Coordinator for a project, working closely with AT Kearney consultants to collect initial information to help model process flows of entire Wal-Mart logistics network which supports over $350B in sales
• Facilitated new process for using more accurate handling and transportation costs within CAPS SCD models

Detroit, Michigan, US

Blackfriars, London, GB