Created a new retail success collaborative program with Sales Leadership, SME's, and Professional Services. In partnership with 8 depts, I work with Retail AE's to create valuable customer experiences with SAS and provide best practice consulting, solution maturity assessments, and 2-3yr adoption plans that improve back office and customer facing processes. Adept at indentifying challenges and opportunties, defining roadmap initiatives to attain corporate customer goals, and presenting a proactive plan to Sr. Executives. Deep domain expertise in both retail and analytics contribute to successful implementations of key process changes. Educating Sr. Executives on the critical need for parallel work streams, to balance the urgent with strategic goals; this approach is proven to address both current fires and the need to expedite progress on a more competitive, innovative customer experience.

Strategic National Sales Account Executive w/12-16 Tier 1 Accounts. Experience building strong partnerships in advanced predictive analytics to achieve business /culture transformation through automation, forecasting & optimization of key processes and customer experience. Working with soft lines, hard lines, grocery, CPG Directors, VPs and C Level partners to procure effective retail analytical tools and solutions to business challenges.

Strategic merchandising, retail operations, and manufacturing problem solver. Working with Tier 1 customers to identify challenges, goals, constraints of current business processes. Developing key value proposition, messaging, and proposed future state project plans with presentation/software demonstrations. Former Sr Retail /Wholesale Executive, consultanting with North American Sr Business leaders to identify data integrity and process challenges; along with, key strategies to deliver financial goals. Visionary future state development to infuse predictive analytics, automation, and optimization software into key processes. Delivers requirements documentation and ROI validation, suggested culture and role transformation ideas, and process/systems diagrams to convey project timeline, cost vs value delivery.

Consulting with retail executives to identify key supply chain initiatives to address top 3 financial goals and cross channel merchandising and marketing. Build out best practice, omni-channel strategies/processes for driving growth by channel, developing customer centric merchandise offerings, and mitigating profit/inventory risk. Works with marketing and product development to share relevant trends, industry challenges/benefits, and solution enhancement requirements to meet ever-changing retail needs.

Working with North American and Global Retail/Wholesale Leaders to doscover challenges and identify business strategies. Delivers proposed solutions that map to high level corp goals and outline key initiatives, map merchandising/supply chain processes, and match/develop software functionality to deliver operational/business goals.Knowledge and experience building end - to - end transformation story in support of Mid tier ERP software.

Strategic 3-5 yr planning, Annual Budget/P &L plan, Merchandise /OTB and Assortment /Size planning, Allocation and Assortment Execution, Replenishment planning. Was responsible for daily management of merchandise planning/public forecast and results detail, assortment analysis/ style depth, sizing, allocation, pricing, replenishment team functions. Provided leadership priorities and directives to IT, wholesale, warehouse distribution, and Omni Channel sales and marketing. Key contributor to the 3-year brand transformation success through marketing, product, and store decisions that lowered avg customer age from 64 to 42 and profitably transitioned the Naturalizer brand from mature to “Footwear Brand of the Year.”In partnership with marketing, buying, IT leaders successfully launched new catalog division and cutting edge fulfillment process contributing to e-commerce website platform growth for Naturalizer Footwear in 1999. Executive sponsor of new ERP core system procurement that included core PIM, merch/location planning, open to buy, marketing/CRM, pricing, reporting, allocation & replenishment, inventory management, and store systems. Expertise in corporate systems projects involving automation of distribution centers, mergers and acquisitions shared data and information systems projects.