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Bella Vista, Arkansas, United States

Bentonville, Arkansas

Bentonville, AR

Bentonville, AR

• Collaborated with merchant, category, and modular development leaders on advanced usage of internal and external analytics.
• Teamed with VP-level leadership to deliver ideas, results, and proof of concepts to gain buy-in and feedback.
• Gathered requirements for development of applications and processes needed to deliver data in more accurate format.
• Worked with ISD on creation of new applications to meet gathered requirements.
• Trained category and modular development managers on new applications and processes.
• Supported category and modular development managers on specific category questions, technical issues, and best practices.

Bentonville, AR

• Compiled available data and analyzed results to assist merchant team in understanding customers, eventually using information to make better assortment decisions.
• Built large and interactive presentations for assortment discipline workshops where merchant team would make decision based on information given.
• Recapped all discussions and decisions made in workshops and supported teams on implementation of decisions.
• Provided feedback to insights and analytics team on needed improvements to tools and methodologies.
• Streamlined tools/processes to help category/modular development managers provide analytics through modular process.
• Through assortment workshop process, I provided analytics that led to decisions resulting in a 14% decrease in inventory and $600K in incremental sales for the bra category.

Bentonville, AR

• Led and managed team of eight associates.
• Ensured timelines and quality standards achieved to deliver merchant’s vision to stores through modular process.
• Provided associates with development opportunities and built bench strength for department.
• Partnered with leadership in intimate and ladies’ apparel to remove roadblocks impacting successful implementation of modular changes.
• Created and improved processes and tools to bolster efficiencies and remove pain points for apparel modular associates.
• Generated modular analytics for merchant teams to show performance differences from modular changes.

Bentonville, AR

• Led and managed team of seven associates.
• Provided support to business on pricing and apparel buying systems.
• Developed short-term solutions using SQL, VBA, and HOST scripts to provide automated reports and tools to reduce pain points in replenishment and pricing.
• Managed item file, pricing, replenishment, and apparel buying system enhancements.
• Developed 32 tools and reports to support business strategies and improve productivity.
• Collaborated with ISD to develop and launch unintelligent item number.

Bentonville, AR

• Created planograms that provided store associates complete and accurate layout of items.
• Collaborated with the buyer to ensure the placement of items correctly matched their vision.
• Worked with other support teams to guarantee items were setup correctly.
• Supported stores through calls and emails on modular issues.

Fayetteville, Arkansas Area

• Provided customer service, set modulars, prepared for and supervised annual inventory, set features, ordering and inventory management
• Supervised 12 associates