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Bozeman, MT, US

Belgrade, Montana, US

• Curate profile of brand identities inside of the Bozeman International Airport (BZN) and through Montana, including Whimsy’s Candy Co., NS Provisions, Montana Gift Corral, including BZN Market, all with specific.
• Create merchandise planning tools and roles to ensure health of business in reducing 200% overspend on retail procurement
• Added Marketing, e-Commerce, Photography, and IT teams under personal management to ensure proper alignment and collaboration amongst functions
• Revamped merchandising team and methodology to align to current trends and retail planning standards
• Rebuild SKU hierarchy and planning methodology to ensure items within chain are bought in cadence aligned to sales
• implemented MSP organization for on-demand IT and networking needs

Houston, TX, US

• Source, develop, and create all primary and secondary packaging elements with B-Corp focuses of sustainability and social impact while maintaining the prestige and quality within the brand heritage
• Responsible for all aspects of product merchandising outside of specific art and formulation inclusive of color matching, print specifications, finishing, pack-out, inner, master, shipper carton specifics
• Build out merchandise planning, new product development, and package engineering teams inclusive of job descriptions, recruiting and hiring negotiations
• Facilitate and re-build vendor relationships for cost-saving and timeline benefits as well as negotiate chargebacks and vendor compliance credits
• Lead NetSuite implementation for all operations metrics inclusive of item master, procurement, 3rd party EDI interface, landed costing methodology, building of all BOMs, all from disparate and non-existent data sources
• Expand sourcing network for constant reaction to lead times and internal constraints

Denver, CO, US

• Cultivate productive relationships with vendors and factories in Asia to facilitate the production of a full line of infant and toddler hosiery, accessories, and travel products for private labels at Carter’s, OshKosh.
• Navigate HTS code standardization and freight rate contract negotiation with the Inbound Logistics Director.
• Coordinate the launch of new product lines: launched the Fruit of the Loom infant and youth hosiery and apparel program in Wal-Mart, Kohls, and Amazon, which nearly doubled Wal-Mart’s hosiery business.
• Control incoming inventory (1800 twenty-foot-equivalent shipments annually), reducing inventory ownership and improving in-stock positions by SKU through forecast collaboration and targeted supply chain initiatives.
• Partner with vendors and factories during all stages of trade war and COVID-19 crisis to optimize inventory positioning, reduce tariff related cost increases, and negotiate program discounts.
• Identify and implement system improvements and process standardizations (e.g. landed cost strategies and systematic, manual warehouse receiving); reduced factory lead times by ~15 days.

Denver, CO, US

• Oversaw full migration to JDE software suite from AS400 inclusive of SOW planning, implementation, UAT, and go-live; served as lead for the operations team.
• Restructured planning team structure for more equitable workloads and better alignment to sales team personnel inclusive of hiring new team members.
• Established a program to ensure accurate data between Centric PLM merchandising system and JDE Enterprise One, eliminating errors for EDI compliance.
• Evaluated monthly forecasts for both owned and licensed brands to develop factory capacity plans for factories.
• Served on the warehouse floor while formulating extensive in-person implementation strategies to streamline the migration of legacy Denver warehouse to two 3PL warehouses in Seattle during key product launches.
• Designed a replenishment forecasting system and strategies for long-term programs with Wal-Mart, Target, and Kohl’s; maintained continual alignment with partners’ corporate plans.

Denver, CO, US

• Built a team of planners from the original sourcing team and hired new team members.
• Created all procedures and tools for planning within legacy systems (ACS/AS400), including forecasting and order processing.
• Authored consistent training methodology and documents for various team roles.
• Aligned objectives and bridged communications between previously disparate groups, rebuilding trust across internal teams and partners in Asia.

Broomfield, CO, US

• Spearheaded global merchandising initiatives for an assortment of product lines, achieving $74M annual retail sales, 69.1% GM, and 3.41 annual turn.
• Partnered with the visual merchandising team to build in-store product launch strategies, performing demographic and consumer research to ensure the product line is on-trend and market-ready.
• Facilitated preseason and in-season sales planning: retail cost inclusive of timed exit strategies and closeout options.
• Strategized all promotional plans (e.g. margin degradation planning) in alignment with marketing budgetary constraints.

Broomfield, CO, US

• Drove bottom-up planning from SKU to build annual financial plans; secured $101M annual retail sales, 70.1% GM, and 3.51 annual turn.
• Forecasted monthly for supply chain planning, resulting in the pre-season and in-season purchase of 1K+ SKUs.
• Supported a global team of category planners by implementing the Oracle RPAS software suite and developing all retail planning tools in MS Excel.

Englewood, CO, US

• Constructed open-to-buy strategy for pre-season and in-season planning, resulting in $450M+ annual retail sales plan, ~42%GM, and 3.2 annual turn.
• Conducted category, sub-category, class, and key item planning to build merchandise assortments and financial plans.
• Collaborated with merchandising teams to develop assortment and vendor plans; attained store ranking by category for assortment allocation.

• Performed product assortment planning, including vendor collaboration for SMU product; drove $420M+ annual departmental retail sales plan, ~46%GM, and 3.5 annual turn.
• Maintained contact with all major footwear brands regarding order maintenance and inbound timing.
• Managed weekly and seasonal promotional items and applicable sales volume forecasting

• Aligned the buyer’s seasonal strategy to current on-order variances, building store rankings and product groupings for specific footwear category needs.
• Led new store assortment planning and weekly sales reporting.

Gardena, CA, US

Gardena, CA, US

Education record

Bachelor Of Arts, International Studies