Christopher Conroy Email & Phone Number

West Islip, NY, US

Greater New York City Area

• Build Strategic Merchandise Planning procedures, processes and tools. – Help brands get a competitive advantage by organizing and analyzing data efficiently. – Build Buying tools based on plans, trends, capacity, and.
• Build OTB process and tools. – Experienced in retail and cost method as well as building hybrid OTB’s. – Receipt reconciliation tools. – Determine the impacts of GM% based on business decisions, Inventory levels.
• Training – Train teams on the planning process, systems, excel, and VBA.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Bringing 20+ years of experience in Merchandise Planning to the Tech side to build a modern planning tool.
• Build Product Roadmap
• Design new modules from the user perspective.
• Train internal and external team.

New York, NY

• VP Merchandise Planning and Data Analytics (product)
• Manage the merchandise planning team and inventory purchases: OTB, Hindsight, Allocation, New vs Existing Customer modeling, Split-Warehouse management.
• Operations team lead between warehouse, production, and ecommerce
• Analytical branch of product launch process.
• Leadership Team member: Building strategic goals for continued growth and profit.

New York

• Built a merchandise planning organization into the vertical business. – Created and managed the OTB process for all categories for a $60M+ business. – Analyzed the business to understand profit growth opportunities and.
• Built and coded hindsight reporting tools (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Qtrly, Seasonal, and Yearly).
• Key member in the interviewing and researching of a new POS/ERP system.

New York, New York

• Managed the OTB process for Women’s Footwear, Men’s Footwear and Women’s Accessories for each strategic account.
• Built Buy Plans by account by sku prior to market to ensure we are supporting a profitable product mix.
• Purchased the line with Corporate Merchandising, and Supply Chain to institute a consistent message into the accounts and ultimately down to the consumer.

• Built the planning process for the outlet division and integrated the new process into the entire retail division.
• Built tools and processes to develop better business decisions and strategies.

• Grew the start-up division to meet company demands.
• Managed the monthly Crewcuts OTB process.
• Managed the preseason planning process to ensure departments and styles were planned to meet the merchandising strategy.
• Developed tools to determine sales trend and profitability by division and store that have been adopted throughout the J.CREW planning teams.