Ashley Augustine Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Led Partnership with Merchandise Manager to develop a multi-channel assortment and financial plans. Directly managed a team of 10 financial and merchandise planners who led teams of up to 40 staff members for 116 store.
• Delivered a +$400M business successfully achieving key company strategies and financial KPI’s.
• Consistently top GMROI business in company
• Performed rigorous analytics and derived insights that drove merchandise strategy across the business channels.
• Determined areas of opportunity within the assortment for all business channels driving +$50M with GM improvement.
• Implemented Continuous Improvement mindset and practices to problem solve and eliminate waste.

Seattle, Washington

• Supported Corporate merchandise planning of +$900M inclusive of Brick & Mortar, N.com flash/persistent. Supported the eCommerce Merchants in 3 geographic locations: Seattle, NYC, and LA.
• Developed and delivered multiple corporate processes in partnership with Supply Chain, Finance and Tech leadership. Implementation enabled merchants to maximize assortment delivering increased sales and GM.
• Partnered with VP and SVP Leadership across a variety of disciples - Operations, Supply Chain, Finance and Tech to create a new inventory/forecasting system incorporating all business channels. Resulting in a.
• Led the development and implementation of Drop Ship capabilities which increase product assortment without holding inventory.

• Supported merchandise planning for Nordstrom.Com. Supported a team of eCommerce Merchants.
• Partnered in the development and then implementation of the corporate selection planning tool, enabling corporate planning alignment and visibility.
• Managed in- season open to buy process in accordance with the corporate sales, margin and inventory turn objectives.
• Actively developed, coached and mentored planning teams.

• Supported divisional financial and assortment plans with sales of +$1B.
• Partnered with Merchandise Manager to develop a multi-channel assortment.
• Piloted the launch of NordstromRack.com.
• Developed a strong team of planners resulting in the export of talent.