Ashley Ennis Email and Phone Number

Category Manager - Outdoor Decor

• Responsible for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly financial forecast, P&L oversight, supply chain management and annual budget for multi-channel Home Décor, Kids Room and Office Departments• Lead open to buy meetings presented to executive management by proactively identifying opportunities and recommending necessary action plans to beat financial goals• Forecast multi-channel demand and manage inventory for new, seasonal and core assortments through data analytics, trends and consumer insights• Influence and collaborate with executive management and cross functional teams (i.e. logistics, marketing and product development) to plan and execute strategies built to exceed financial plans• Construct excel based tools to improve accuracy of forecasting and manage inventory risks through VBA, Aleryx and SQL

• Influenced executive merchandising decisions with cross functional team and suppliers to exceed inventory and financial goals• Improve in stocks through targeted root cause analysis and strategic inventory management• Develop and execute inventory strategies to exceed merchandising requirements and reduce inventory complications by leveraging data, insights and trends• Program excel based tools to provide replenishment data and research efficiency using, VBA, SQL, and Alteryx• Implement seasonal/feature event flow strategy and manage modular execution process• Manage replenishment for two buying matrix teams, Closet Storage/Organization and Kitchen Storage/Organization

• Collaborate with cross functional team, suppliers, logistics and planning to exceed inventory and financial goals• Validate replenishment expertise and apply to the creation, implementation, and enhancement of merchandising action plans• Program excel based tools to provide replenishment data and research efficiency using, VBA, SQL, and Alteryx • Direct and enhance supply chain execution from supplier to store to improve sales, in-stock, and profit metrics • Leverage data, insights, and trends to reduce inventory complications• Develop and direct inventory strategies and supply chain execution to exceed merchandising requirements

• Nationally selected to participate in leadership and talent program • Cross-functional training of Buying, Replenishment, Business Analytics, Planning, Pricing, and Category Management• Participate in classroom experience, store operations exposure, distribution center education as well as individual and group project work•Provide replenishment expertise to the establishment and improvement of action plans•Build and analyze SQL queries to provide business insight to merchandising cross functional team • Participate in cross-functional developments to accomplish financial results • Coordinate inventory strategies and build forecasts to support merchandising requirements• Collaborate with suppliers, merchandising, logistics and planning

• Prepared and assisted with conferences and event planning• Maintained client information in Delphi Software to update and revise booking details• Worked as a concierge and gave an average of 2-3 tours weekly to prospective clients tours of the conference center

• Selected to represent the University of Alabama • Serve as an ambassador by establishing relationships and communicating with corporate recruiters• Assisted with all career recruiting events at the university

•Assisted Dr. Glenn Griffin and Dr. Regina Lewis in developing and conducting research to determine the value of internships within the advertising industry•Constructed survey for distribution to advertising students at five U.S. universities•Analyzed research to determine whether or not a paid internship is perceived as a better learning experience than an unpaid internship in preparation for future employment

• Assist with developing, writing and distributing approved press releases• Manage media relation, including pitching and researching for four clients• Design advertising campaigns using Adobe Programs

•Provided Cosmopolitan sales, marketing and promotional services to the University of Alabama community•Promoted sales via Social Media •Communicate promotions to student body at campus events

• Direct and choreograph Homecoming and other Greek dance events/competitions• Managed and directed the audition process • Won Greek Week through competition with 18 sororities

• Educate 120 new members on Pi Beta Phi values and traditions while supervising progress throughout their first year• Supervise new members during pledge ship• Attend new member meetings 1-3 times a week

• Monitored all events involved in Homecoming• Monitored actions of all organizations involved in Homecoming• Attended SGA Homecoming Committee meetings once a week

• Assisted instructors with professional training program• Supervised over 300 attendees• Assisted with all administrative functions