Christopher Bordash Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York City Metropolitan Area

Austin, Texas, United States

iPhone•Forecast demand, inventory, and multi-channel sell through. Generate weekly and quarterly supply plans that meet Apple’s financial objectives. Evaluate risks. Plan and implement contingency plans to mitigate.•Analyze product sales and find opportunities to drive partner groups to appropriate action.•Partner closely with regional product planning teams to ensure supply plans meet sales requirements. Coordinate with Marketing and New Product Operations teams to set launch quantities of new product introductions and to ensure smooth product transitions.-Collaborate with the global procurement teams to allocate constrained components, ensure raw material inventory targets are achieved, and minimize material obsolescence during product transition.•Present product updates and recommended actions to Operations executive management team on a weekly basis.•Identify improvement opportunities in the product planning process, marshal resources, and drive projects to completion.

New York, Ny

Men's High Profile and Moderate Active Apparel & Men's Active Hats- Owned planned class assortment & margin strategies during pre-season, maintains strategic view of rack through in season revisions to foster sales and profitability growth. - Collaborated with 3 buyers on below class level assortment initiatives by understanding market availability opportunities and constraints from multiple supply resources. - Managed $120M of Open-To-Buy, both branded and tertiary labels.- Collaborated with location planning team through implementation of regional flow strategies presented to multiple senior planning executives. - Partnered with merchant to create Fashion Hat business allowing newness in otherwise stale assortment, providing value to customer and strong margin to overall hats business.

New York, Ny

Men's Active and Team Hats, Bags, and Sporting GoodsMen's Active Apparel•Develop seasonal business plans through partnership with buying group and analysis of historical data to forecast trends • Create Pre-Season chain plans at the class level and In-Season forecasting of chain plans • Monitor monthly performance to sales, inventory and margin targets • Manage weekly OTB • Perform independent analysis and recommend courses of action to drive profitable sales • Collaborate closely and build trust among cross-functional partners to drive desired results •Present and call out risks/opportunities to Management and Senior Merchants

New York, Ny

Men’s and Young Men’s Outerwear & Swimwear, Hawaiian Home & Apparel- Presented regionally specific unit recommendations to planning and merchandising leadership teams, ensuring all 14 micro-markets were served seasonal and trend appropriate merchandise. - Trained newly hired entry level planners and interns to understand process driven deliverables, general retail metrics and algebraic based retail math calculations. - Successfully grew challenging regions for the company by recommending and implementing seasonally focused swim short and heavyweight outerwear pre-season strategies driving seasonal inventory shifts to hyper-seasonal regions.- Partnered with allocation team on store level strategies for Hawaii specific goods, catered directly to small customer-based preferences.

New York, Ny

Young Men’s Tops and Bottoms In-Season:• Analyze business performance using standardized reports prepared monthly• Review future plans based on historical performance and knowledge of future business conditions (e.g. product availability and assortment strategies)• Identify risks and/or opportunities by product and Region• Prepare hindsight analysis and collaborate with Merchandise Planning counterpart at key fiscal points (e.g. events/holidays and quarterly)• Partner with Location Planning Manager to conduct hindsight reviews to present findings to Senior leadership• Propose recommendations in order to capitalize on opportunities and/or reduce risk for next year (e.g. influence product flow changes to drive sales/reduce liabilities)• Work with cross-functional teams (Store Planning and Allocation) to implement Store strategies and address callouts and errors• Utilize forecast to evaluate future Store plans against system parametersPre-Season:• Analyze historical performance to propose flow strategies to Location Planning Manager• Partner with Merchandise Planning counterpart to inform the Chain plans of Region recommendations• Develop Region plans by applying independent hindsight analysis and known assortment strategies to update the initial system generated plans• Review higher product levels to validate the mix of assortment within a Region using additional reporting tools• Present recommended plans to Location Planning Manager in a formal meeting for continued learning• Recommend store lists for limited door product opportunities and analyze different store groups (e.g. door rankings, target demographics) to determine location strategies and initiatives• Modify system generated Store level plans by resolving outliers and exceptions

Greater New York City Area

Presented new regional strategies for Women's Swimwear in collaborative intern project.Develop regional product strategies and review with Location Planning ManagerReview in-season system generated forecast recommendations and determining which recommendations to accept/reject based on current business performance (e.g. Markdown and inventory turn) and expected future business conditions (e.g. supply constraints and predicted weather anomalies)Conduct a regional 3-D review across products to develop future region plans and flow recommendations. Support new regional strategies (i.e. Warm-Weather initiatives and Limited door analyses).Present recommendations to Location Planning Manager for approvalExposure to chain side planning

Harriman, New York

Serviced customers in order to help make their shopping experience easy and to increase cash flow for the store.Managed the fitting room and the 6 employees working the shift, deciding which employees should go on break when, while keeping customers satisfied.Trained new employee at the cash wrap on proper protocol at the registerFrequently demonstrated how to properly customer service at our quarterly meetings in hopes of increasing customer satisfaction.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Supply Chain Management And Marketing Management

Received a B.S. concentrating in Supply Chain Management and Marketing Management at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management.

Education record

Spent the spring semester of my Sophomore year studying abroad in Hong Kong at CityU through Syracuse University's Hong Kong Center.

Advanced Comprehensive Regents Diploma With Honors

Activities and Societies: National Honors Society, Drama Club