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Greater Seattle Area

Method Seattle is a Luxury Professional Organizing Firm serving the Greater Seattle area and virtual clients everywhere. We offer custom Home Organizing and Photo Management services.

Greater Seattle Area

• Promoted to VP-level role overseeing omni-channel supply chain planning functions for the company’s $3B Women’s Apparel business in the US and Canada. Led a planning team of ~100 employees, including 6 direct reports.
• Partnered with the Women’s General Merchandise Manager to successfully grow the Full Price business from $2.4B to $3B within a 5-year span—including oversight of Full Line Stores (US & CA), E-Commerce, and Subscription.
• Achieved all-time high performance levels in Gross Margin and Turn for 5 out of 6 years of tenure
• Championed lean thinking and continuous improvement throughout the Nordstrom Merchandising Group, managing significant change initiatives including the implementation/integration of JDA Allocation software and a shift.
• Led cultural transformation efforts around Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging across the company, including obtaining certification to teach DBI curriculum that has increased employee awareness of DEI-related issues.

• Led Financial and Assortment Planning across Full Price in multiple divisions totaling $5B in revenue. Additionally drove major organizational change involving integration of the e-commerce and Full Line Store.
• Led complex integration planning efforts including workforce planning, communications, change readiness, and technology system evolution needed to achieve the desired centralization within an 8-month period
• Led de-coupling of Assortment Planning from Buying and created new Planning roles (e.g. Planning Manager, Buy Planner)
• Drove additional restructuring and change initiatives that included guiding omni-channel planning teams through expansion into the Canada market and acquisition of the Trunk Club recurring revenue model

• Oversaw a 70-member inventory management organization during a period of intensive growth at Nordstrom.com, seeing the channel increase from $700M to over $1B in e-commerce sales.
• Led the Merchandising team through the challenges of the 2008 recession, controlling inventory levels and prioritizing a narrowed assortment of high-performing categories to minimize markdowns and maintain growth
• Managed the Merchandising team through the launch of shared inventory capabilities (Store Fulfill, Buy Online Pickup in Store) that propelled top line growth, as well as all-time-high Margin and Turn levels
• Created a Financial Planning Team to support the integration of Nordstrom.com to Oracle's RPAS Merchandise Financial Planning system

• Took on responsibility for leading merchandising for the US Full Line Store Special Size Women's category ($200M), overseeing a team of 17 across Buying and Store Merchandising and handling all related assortment.
• Grew the Special Size category (Petites & Plus) from $180M to $200M in 3 years
• Recognized with Best In Class Merchandiser honors in 2007

• Promoted to director-level role overseeing a critical mix of business planning and analysis functions essential to optimizing revenue for the company’s $1B Women’s Apparel category.
• Led Financial Planning team of 18 to deliver sound financial plans that achieved KPI targets while supporting the merchandise strategy
• Managed the integration of MicroStrategy application reporting and insights for the Women's team

• Selected to represent the Business (Merchandising) on a high-profile technology project that created a new Perpetual Inventory platform (Oracle/Retek) for Nordstrom.
• Defined processes for key Merchandising functions, centralized Initial Price and Price conversion, centralized Item Setup (for de-centralized Merchandising organization), and created a Single Process for ordering