-Partner with buy planner and financial planner on business reviews, open-to-buy management and plan revisions to achieve financial goals and strategic objectives.-Created seasonal financial plans to achieve optimal inventory investment, increase merchandise flow while maximizing profitability and reducing marked down products. Seasonal planning actions resulted in .06 ROI increase and almost 2% increased profitability quarterly.-Developed deep multi-channel expertise based on customer behavior and competition for both in store and online channels while monitoring and adjusting financial and inventory performance as needed.-Negotiate exclusive offerings, terms, pricing, vendor-funded-markdowns, return-to-vendor agreements, drop-ship programs, co-op, and more.-Creates competitive and breakthrough strategies that show a clear connection between vision and action while balancing pace, precision, and profit.-Acquires data from multiple and diverse sources when solving problems to make sound decisions, even in the absence of complete information.

-Managed in season business and vendor relationships daily.-Responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and allocating product based on performance analysis of multiple stores nationwide.-Assists management of open to buy budge and contract negotiation.-Produces reports daily to display product performance, forecast financial and customer trends, and make business decisions based on key performance indicators.-Daily use of several detailed reporting systems including but not limited to; JDA, RDW, ISR, assortment builder (AB), SPA, RPM, Tableau, RMS 9 and 14.

-Managed staff of 20 in the men’s casual department for premier men’s fashion brands; driving an 8 million dollars per year sales floor. Planned, prepared and executed business plans and events to drive volume, profits and success of my employees.