Christopher Wald Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Core Responsibilities:
• Purchasing $100MM annually in materials for L Brands physical retail store construction projects across the globe
• Daily responsibilities included forecasting future demand, issuing purchase orders, inventory management and allocation analysis, financial reports for executive leadership, vendor capacity planning, and coordination.
• Daily collaboration and problem solving with cross functional partners including sourcing/design/logistics/project management
• Extensive partnership with external vendor base on production/planning capabilities, inventory allocation & management, purchase order management, lead time and logistics constraints, and factory visits

Columbus

• Create & manage the merchandise plan for Dearfoams (the footwear division of RG Barry) providing year over year sell-in trend analysis, margin costing information, SKU productivity
• Work daily with the design & sourcing teams, developing new innovative footwear styles while balancing margin targets & customer expectations
• Analyze inventory, providing year-end ownership projections, inventory balancing tactics, and providing recommendations for future inventory strategies to maximize efficiency & inventory turn.
• Extensive work on various projects, including the creation of a replenishment forecasting & buying tool, massive updates to merchandise line planning excel tools, and other process improvement initiatives dealing with.
• Completed a comprehensive market research project: 1. Managed a team of interns collecting information from retail locations in Ohio, 2. Compiled the data into an excel database & ensured integrity of information 3..

New Albany Ohio

• Core responsibilities:
• Create and manage high-level store-specific inventory forecasts that are the foundation for all forecast models and allocations in the A&F brand
• Create and manage strategic forward weeks of supply for all 250 domestic A&F stores
• Create high-level allocation strategy for high volume sales time periods, balancing new key item delivery, shipping constraints, store receiving constraints, and promotional activity for all 900 A&F, Abercrombie.
• Analyze re-seller trends and provide recommendations to Inventory Analysts and cross functional partners on reactionary strategies and probability of near-term re-seller activity
• Collaborate with distribution center (DC) team on projecting allocated units by week for all three brands and all five DC’s

New Albany Ohio

• Objective: Manage SKU's from purchase order conception at the vendor through SKU markdown in stores by creating a unit sales forecast at the store level, strategically allocating units from DC to stores or DC to DC.
• Initiated and deployed inventory for seven departments across all 900 stores in the A&F, KIDS, and Hollister Co. brands
• Developed and implemented inventory product strategies for every key item within those departments, directly responsible for managing up to 100 SKU’s at one time in five different DC’s all around the world
• Coordinated and collaborated with cross-functional team members to develop optimal commitments and receipt placement, up to 15 direct cross-functional team members
• Managed the break out strategy for purchase orders between the company’s five Distribution Centers
• Analyzed key item strategy at style, color, and size levels to get the right amount of inventory at the right stores at the right time

- Direct-to-consumer fraud team- Analyze online/phone orders and assess fraud- Collaborate with the DC on customer history- Data mining and trend analysis

- Returns - Opening & Credit department, DC operations team- Collaborated on a lean project saving $72,000/year- Worked on value stream mapping projects- Designed a training program for a process change- Ran daily reports and personnel assignments- Participated in cross functional training and development classes

The Ohio State University

- Manage personnel assignments of students- Train new hires and position changes- Manage customer complications

Doctor Of Law - Jd, Law

Business - Logistics

Activities and Societies: Sigma Phi Epsilon, The Logistics Association, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, ALDPES freshman.

Bachelor Of Science; Specializing, Business Administration; Logistics

Activities and Societies: Hokkaido University Premier Soccer ClubHUSTEP: Hokkaido University Short-Term Exchange Program 11 month foreign.