Andrew Cieszynski Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

West Jordan, Ut, Us

* Manages Merchandise Financial Plans for Organization with over $1.5 billion in annual revenue.* Oversight of a team of 25 Planning Managers, Planners, & Allocators while partnering with a team of 20+ Buyers, Category Managers, and Divisional Merchandise Managers. * Partners with Distribution Center to forecast inbound receipts and outbound shipments for 150 stores across 40 states.KEY MILESTONES* Reduced the overall inventory investment by $150M in first 12 months, allowing the organization to pay down debt by over $60M.* Created 18-month financial planning tool that forecasted sales, margin, receipts, and inventory by week across 180 categories. * Implemented allocation process that created store grades based on sales & margin opportunities * Executed assortment rationalization process, reducing unproductive skus & improving in-stocks by 20%.* Partnered with Real Estate team to opened 15 new stores in 2023; providing recommendations on space planning and inventory targets.

Park City, Ut, Us

Park City, Ut, Us

*Manages Apparel, Footwear, and Accessory Categories; accounting for over $350 million annually.*Responsible for the growth, development, and accountability of four direct reports (Merchandise Planners)*Implemented new Open-To-Buy process and reduced inventory inventory by 20% in year one while maintaining sales.*Developing new pre-season buy, in-season chase, and post-season hindsight strategies to improve inventory sell-through and margin.*Developing assortment rationalization process to improve in-stock and return on investment per style/sku.

Anaheim, Ca, Us

Anaheim, Ca, Us

•Managing and developing a team of of nine full time employees and two seasonal temp workers.•Creates inventory plans for over 400 stores across ten different assortment tiers & three different selling channels (Mall-based, Outlet, E-Commerce). •Builds flexible allocation strategies across over 50 different product categories to sell over 30 million units annually. •Creates store cluster recommendations for seasonal merchandise based on market trends and field feedback.•Analyze and recommend size distributions across different different categories and 400 stores.•Provides prepack recommendations for merchant purchase orders to expedite product through the supply chain.•Provides weekly allocation forecasts to supply chain and store operations for labor planning.

Anaheim, Ca, Us

Anaheim, Ca, Us

Anaheim, Ca, Us

Anaheim, Ca, Us

Anaheim, Ca, Us

Anaheim, Ca, Us

Anaheim, Ca, Us

Anaheim, Ca, Us

Anaheim, Ca, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Develops seasonal financial plans that maximize inventory levels and supports the monthly open-to-buy to achieve sales, turnover, and gross margin targets.Manages over 50 seasonal unit sales planners and recommends reorder, markdowns or returns to vendor where applicable.Reviews the advertised and promotional programs to ensure sufficient quantity of featured product across 266 stores.Reviews sales/stock opportunities/liabilities and partners with merchant to modify replenishment and allocation models based on current trend, resolve assortment and by location opportunities.Partners with merchant team to develop assortment plans and strategies at cluster/store level, sku rationalization, store plans, and minimize stockouts.

New York, Ny, Us

Collaborated with Executive Management, Information Technology, and the Merchant Staff on the creation of new tools and processes to improve organizational merchandising performance.Developed spreadsheet-based tools related to Pre-Buy Analysis, Private Brand Planning, Aged Inventory Identification , Data Warehouse Reporting, Markdown Status Projection, and automated Daily Sales/Purchase Order logs.Introduced and trained associates in the Men's, Kid's and Shoe divisions on new tools and provided support during implementation of new merchandising process.

New York, Ny, Us

Collaborated with Buyer for the launch of the e-Commerce business; developing web-exclusive advertising and sourcing new Commerce Hub vendors to add to our assortment.Analyzed in-season style selling and strategized on future pricing, reorders or markdowns on aged/unproductive merchandise.Worked with vendors to develop financial plans, promotional/permanent markdown cadence, and marketing plan to achieve seasonal sales and gross margin goals.Reviewed advertising performance weekly and offered suggestions for future promotions.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed entire advertising process, ensuring all promotions were accurate and impactful to generate additional sales.Worked with replenishment/allocation team to build inventory levels for key events and ensure the proper allocation of gift sets to maximize sell-through by door.Supported the open to buy process by maintaining/reconciling on order log, returns to vendor, replenishment models, Acted as key resource for vendors such as Coty Prestige, Proctor & Gamble, Beaute Prestige International, Elizabeth Arden, and Yves Saint Laurent while buyer was on maternity leave.

New York, Ny, Us

*Assisted in execution of merger between York-based Bon-Ton Stores and Milwaukee-based Carson Pirie Scott.

After working in the shipping department throughout college, I was promoted to Management Trainee where I worked in Purchasing, Accounting, and Customer Service areas.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration And Management, General