Danielle Dowd Email & Phone Number

United States

Brentwood, Tennessee, United States

Brentwood, Tennessee, United States

Brentwood, Tennessee

Englewood, CO

• Managed, mentored, and developed replenishment, demand, and backstock team of 11 members covering 6 departments to ensure assortment plans met financial goals and merchandising objectives ($302M in sales volume)
• Consistently exceeded inventory in stock goal of 94% ensuring execution of weekly replenishment purchases for 1430 items representing $241M in retail sales or 80% of the department’s sales.
• Created and implemented allocation and replenishment strategies to support sales, margin, and turn goals for ecommerce and 475 store locations
• Oversaw and reviewed monthly and weekly forecasting processes for sales, receipts, and backstock at sub-department and vendor level
• Developed reporting to provide analysis to leadership identifying sales opportunity and forecasting risk
• Managed new store, relocation, and remodel inventory goals and purchasing to ensure inventory levels were achieved

Englewood, CO

• Generated and managed financial sales, gross margin, receipt, and inventory plans to ensure company objectives of $96M in sales volume were met by the accessory departments
• Partnered with buyer to analyze and improve assortment plans to meet goals and to obtain additional receipts after increasing profitability in winter accessories department by $2.25M in retail sales: +22% in 2014 from.
• Developed and managed key item financial plans during backpack season, resulting in +10% ($1.2M) in retail sales in 2014 to previous year and +3% ($450K) to original plan
• Promoted to Nike Planner for footwear and active apparel for all stores and ecommerce ($550M in sales volume), partnered with department planners and buyers to re-forecast plans to meet department and company goals.
• Consistently re-forecasted plans at department, sub-department, and vendor level for 13 sub-departments and 17 vendors, and managed 7 consignment/pay-on-scan plans
• Ranked stores by sub-department and vendor class to better support our top locations for each category

Englewood, CO

• Created weekly replenishment purchase orders for the Bikes and Skates departments totaling more than 113,000 SKU/store combinations
• Managed inventory in-stock levels for 18 different vendors and managed process of seasonal grade and assortment changes
• Researched and identified sales risks and opportunities
• Generated reports to analyze issues with in-stock levels and advertising and created profitable solutions
• Acted as JDA Fulfillment Authority and worked with other Authorities to develop best practices and train new software users

Englewood, CO

• Worked with buyer to select seasonal product assortments by attending line reviews and offering assortment recommendations based on sales history and analysis of style, size, and color
• Developed seasonal marketing strategies with buyer and divisional manager
• Collected samples from vendors for advertising and developed sample rotation for ad inserts
• Completed ad turn-ins, proofing, and finalization
• Created purchase order worksheets from buyer assortment, tracked all purchase orders, and worked with vendors to ensure timely delivery
• Completed all markdowns for swim department for two seasons by identifying slow-moving inventory and analyzing sell through to maintain profitability