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Pleasanton, Us

• Analyze historical sales data, market trends, and inventory to create future demand and product sales plans.• Collaborate with marketing, finance, and supply chain teams to gather input and align on company sales targets. • Monitor finished goods and aged inventory to increase inventory turn and minimize P&L impact.• Conduct sku rationalization process to optimize sku and category productivity.• Lead reconciliation of top-down and bottom-up financial plan meetings. • Manage demand forecast, buy plans, and inventory for E-commerce platforms across multiple consumer markets.• Calculate optimal inventory levels by increasing forecast accuracy and reducing excess, aged, and out of stock inventory.• Coordinate with supply chain and procurement teams to ensure production and supply plans align with demand forecasts.• Update and actualize sales plans against forecasts, increasing forecast accuracy to match market trends. • Create and present demand forecasts, open to buy plans, margin, inventory levels, and significant KPI’s to executive leadership during monthly open to buy review. • Identify potential out of stock and excess inventory risks to cross functional partners and plan of corrective action.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• Create and present sales targets and forecast plans to executive leadership during monthly open to buy reviews.• Increased topline gross margin from 28.7% to 49.7% within six months of hire by implementing new retail pricing strategies and promotions. • Reduced supplier product and material costs by 8% through cost negotiations and market analysis. • Maintain a minimum of 50% gross margin rate on all retail products. • Influence bottoms-up sales and inventory plans to deliver topline productivity. • Create vendor sell through and productivity reports to leverage for vendor credits and promotional support to increase product sell through rates. • Build monthly and yearly demand forecasts by identifying trends and opportunities to maximize growth and mitigate risks. • Conduct quantitative analysis to improve productivity, respond to market trends, identify outliers, and initiate strategic response. • Obtain competitive bids and pricing from various manufacturers for comparative analysis negotiation. • Create and present category and item-level sales plans and inventory buys that are driven by product rankings, merchandising strategies, and tops-down financial goals. • Leverage historical data to identify key learnings around promotions, pricing, and inventory supply to build for future purchasing. • Maintain supplier relationships to achieve company goals through reducing material lead times, product quality, and favorable pricing. • Provide weekly and monthly business recaps on category and item performance for top drivers of the business. • Re-forecast item level plans in season and perform ad hoc analysis to identify inventory risks or opportunities. • Manage markdown cadence to maximize sales while meeting sell through targets and margin goals. • Partner with accounting team to assist with quarter end and vendor payment reconciliations.• Collaborate with cross functional departments to maximize overall revenue and margin.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Managed five key categories grossing the company over 200 million dollars a year with four inventory planners as direct reports. • Maintained the company’s key categories monthly gross margins above 69.9% through aggressive in season planning and markdown cadences. • Partner with Merchants to create pre-season collection and item-level sales plans that align with product rankings, merchandising strategies, and tops-down financial goals. • Present sales plans to leadership and cross functional teams during investment review. • Manage monthly open to buy forecasts for E-commerce and Bricks & Mortar channels to drive sales, margin, and conversion. • Manage BOP costs, inventory, and turn to align with leadership targets. • Forecast and review buys, projections, and replenishments at SKU level to maintain optimum inventory flow. • Partner with Inventory Distribution teams to develop allocation strategies and with E-commerce teams for site merchandising opportunities. • Analyze and identify inventory liabilities for channel balancing, outlet transfers, markdowns, or promotion opportunities. • Oversee direct reports open to buy forecasts, day to day priorities, and inventory turn for their respective departments. • Rollup department open to buys to present a tops down summary to leadership during monthly OTB meetings. • Calculate and manage key metrics needed to roll up open to buy and present action plans during monthly OTB meetings. • Manage demand forecasting for multiple departments for direct to consumer and Bricks & Mortar channels. • Analyze current trend and historical demand sales and receipts to calculate future BOP receipts. • Manage and review markdowns with cross functional teams bi-weekly to determine plans of action. • Identify top collections and SKU productivity to purchase depth in inventory to manage turn and costs. • Review business trend weekly to determine plans of actions to drive future demand, inventory, and turn.

San Francisco, California, Us

•Ownership of Canada Outlet Bricks & Mortar and E-Commerce channel allocations.•Build and update weekly tracking reports to perform daily duties and allocations for Canada Outlet and E-commerce channels. •Compile and maintain seasonal project plans for Canada DTC channels. •Ownership of building the country’s sizing templates for Canada Outlet and E-commerce channels for Men's and Women's tops and bottoms for the allocation team to perform sizing analysis.•Lead sizing review meetings with cross functional teams for Canada Outlet and E-commerce providing sizing actions and recommendations. •Collaborate with cross functional teams on a weekly and monthly basis to align on allocation forecast targets.•Update weekly new flow tracking reports utilized by marketing and E-commerce teams. •Provide weekly in-stock reports and action plans to maintain channel inventory above ninety-two percent threshold at all times for Canada Mainline and Outlet Bricks & Mortar locations. •Analyze and create strategies to balance and update inventory for new, core carry over, and markdown products to support in-stock levels and turn. •Ownership of actualizing allocations and sales within forecast reports for the entire country of Canada DTC to support inventory turn and channel promotions.•Update flow forecasts projections on a weekly and monthly level for DC operations and finance team.

San Francisco, California, Us

•Collaborate with Sr. management and cross functional teams to manage flow forecasts, align on investment reviews, and create pre-season sales plans. •Participate in weekly reviews of business results with Sr. management and immediate teams to address business needs and assess seasonal strategies.•Forecast in-season sales, margin expectations, and inventory ownership. •Present financial forecast and supporting action plans at Monthly Business Reviews to Sr. management.•Forecast product inventories monthly by analyzing historical financials, including turn and sell through, and current trends.•Analyze weekly inventory, sales, and product in transit to compile weekly tracking reports to submit to improve forecast accuracy and in-stocks. •Update internal systems future forecasting reports daily for bi-weekly and monthly submission deadlines.

Richmond, Ca, Us

• Create international paperwork and enforce customs standards and regulations France to the U.S.• Request Bookings with Ocean Freight Carriers for internal and customer deliveries.• Audit and optimize product for inventory management across three platforms.• Document and track cargo movements from port to port.• Oversee company’s main vendor accounts for weekly conferences, PO fulfillment, inventory management, promotional funding, and forecasting.• Conduct weekly conferences with internal teams to provide updates on clientele.• Extract data from multiple data systems to compile finance and inventory reports.• Review new and potential customer contracts for company liability purposes.• Compile development reports to increase productivity of production from warehouse.• Create SOPs to reduce error and product waste.• Performed routine audits to evaluate line productivity and product output.

Stockton, Ca, Us

• Perform as a liaison between Military, CPFD-Prime Vendor, and Customer.• Review and resolve Massive Frustrated Cargo Reports for military and customer needs on demand.• Conduct weekly conferences providing information, direction, and assistance to immediate team.• Assist company operations to minimize costs to military and customer's satisfaction.• Monitor cargo movement through military data systems to confirm vessel and product shipment arrival to final destination.• Radio communication with military and customers for product, policy, and all progress.• Responsible for tracking and accuracy of all certification and documentation of government and customer military contracts.• Coordinate import and export of product with carriers, customers, and military operations.• Interact with customs, vendors, and carriers for updating of inbound, outbound, and discrepancy cargo reports.• Conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis of logistic operations using simulation models, Microsoft, and supply chains.• Review incoming customer purchases and requests, manually enter and configure data into a centralized database.• Receive and invoice purchase orders made by vendors, suppliers, and customers.• Audit and monitor inventory levels within warehouse, in transit, and out of country warehouses.• Resolve inventory discrepancies using computer analysis and personal methods. •Conduct routine audits of DRY, CHILL, and FROZEN warehouses.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Data Analytics

Business Administration And Management, General

Business Administration And Management, General

Biochemistry