• Manage the compilation of monthly, quarterly, annual and ad hoc reporting on cost savings, commodities inflation, inventory/working capital, transportation and logistics, and other key measurement factors for the global supply chain organization. Presents information, findings and recommendations to senior leadership.• Review and update the Cost Savings initiatives each month and review with necessary Business Partners to show most current results• Drive supply chain cost improvement and performance through analytical methods, tools, tactical reporting and process improvement initiatives. Provide innovative and impactful insights to stakeholders and leadership.• Tracks and validates cost savings related to the global supply chain. Owns the tracking tool and reports updates to Finance and senior leadership.• Manages the supply chain’s cost center information including budgets, forecasts and actuals.• Participate and prepare materials for supply chain and operations meetings and where supply chain analytics are required as necessary.

• Develop monthly sales forecasts at the item level using historical data, POS, statistical forecasting models and market trends for assigned customers and events in the forecasting tool, Demantra• Manage 10K SKUs• Utilize data to quickly recognize changes in item level sales trends to drive a proactive response in the supply chain to minimize obsolescence while maximizing customer service• Analyze and report on root causes for forecast error (WMAPE) and adjust appropriately.• Lead effective monthly collaborative planning process with Sales partners to achieve consensus forecasts that support customer everyday demand and marketing activities• Identify and communicate gaps in the demand plan to the company budget and help to resolve or justify discrepancies in preparation of the S&OP meetings• Coordinate implementation of forecasting and inventory planning activities for customer planograms, new items and promotional business with cross functional team• Collaborate directly with Customers to identify opportunities to increase sales through trend analysis and observations• Review incoming customer orders as required to ensure optimal service levels and achieve improved forecast accuracy• Communicate to management any potential issues and challenges impacting service to customers• Pull and analyze data using BI (Data mining tool) and Customer’s Portal• Lead training for new hires• Manages and leads trainings for Demand Planners and Managers for WMAPE review and Excel trainings• Works directly with Executives to inform business trends along with constraints

• Create pre-season deviations down to the class level which are used by various business partners including: Merchants, Merchandise Planning, and Distribution for all clothing departments in all 300 stores for both Gap Outlet and Banana Republic Factory stores using Smart Store (a homegrown tool), RSA, and MARS.• Insure that store inventory levels do not exceed capacity through weekly analytics based on units OH and projected trend based on each store’s Planogram and layout• Serve as the liaison between the Field and HQ on inventory levels for both new and existing stores.• Analyze and assign store attributes for assortment strategies based on margin, cost sales, turns, and sales trend.• Exception manage stores that are not following projected trend to insure stores have the proper amount of inventory

• Responsible for developing timely and optimized store sales plans based of sales volumes and trends in comparison to the region using JDE Arthur Planning system.• Utilize each store’s sales plan to produce an algorithmically correct inventory plan rolled up to each region.• Implementation of regional strategies including regional flow summaries.• Accurately managing all product location restrictions including limiting product from select stores.• Effectively building inventory plans for the creation of new stores.• Analyze store performance trends to appropriately revise store sales and inventory to achieve a profitable turn.

• Proactively support and manage company receipt goals through daily/weekly monitoring and balancing of flow-through and non-sell merchandise.• Effectively allocate merchandise within a 2-hour maximum turn time.• Execute regional flow summaries and identify specific merchandise needs through knowledge of regional and climatic characteristics.• Responsible for appropriate inventory mix in new stores.• Appropriately execute the store inventory plan by reacting to sales ratio to the average, turns and other exception variances.