Promoted to manage all Classifications of Household Chemicals and Pet departments. Developed, presented to management, and implemented all seasonal financial plans, weekly Open to Buy, and Monthly Forecasts.•Led team in weekly meeting to identify current and future states of the business, raise concerns, and agree on execution of strategies to mitigate plan shortfalls or maximize sales and profitability.•Developed assortment plans balancing the mix of closeout and non-closeout business to achieve plan goals and maximizing sales and margin in space constraints.•Collaborated and approved plans with Replenishment Planner and E-commerce Planner to align on sales and inventory investments that aligned with the total department margin, sales and inventory goals.

Category captain for the Lounge and Yoga categories with focus on the Northeast Regional Stores.• Proactively analyzed store needs using various metrics including traffic, sales growth, inventory growth, seasonality to influence deployments.• Effectively partnered with Demand and Deployment teams to gather deployment strategies to share information with stores and other Market Intensification partners.• Partnered with stores to review Tier structure by category and assortment strategies to identify opportunities in inventory investments to maximize sales.

Planned and purchase various Swim Classifications ,Women's Tops and PINK Intimate Apparel for ecommerce. Developed, presented to management, and implemented all seasonal financial plans for the catalogs and internet sites. Placed all fabric and components for merchandise with overseas partners to minimize liabilities.• Managed six consecutive associate planners to promotion and helped direct up to four other team members.• Grew sales volume approximately $74M during tenure, driving sales for up to 7,500 SKU's.• Maintained all production fabric projections to implement Speed to market programs within-stock order turnaround of 10 days and 28 days.• Developed reporting for all milestone meetings utilizing SAP, AS 400, Micro strategy, Hyperion-Essbase, and Advanced Excel.• Successfully maintained margin requirements by creatively merchandising all sale and exit catalogs. • Consistently drove forward product development and influenced merchants based on conducting thorough analysis of prior year results and giving recommendations.

Purchased all classifications of Ladies sleepwear and robes including Junior and Plus sizes. Also purchased all classifications of Women's Separate Bottoms.• Implemented new strategy of more "better" brands for Sleepwear by increasing sales in this class by 125%.• Increased gross margin by 5.7% points and cumulative markup by 4.1% points by managing all Open to buy, markdowns and price negotiations for Sleepwear/Lounge wear/robes• Implemented "Big Buy" strategy for Bottoms by procuring several advantageous large deals increasing comparative store sales by 27% over the prior year and 16% over plan, while decreasing markdowns 3% points and increasing gross margin dollars by $1.4 million.