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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

- Team Lead for Socks & Footwear Merchandising, and Merchandising Operations teams (5 people). Led and implemented seasonal and multi-year product, revenue and gross margin strategies in partnership with various cross functional teams. Oversaw Merch Ops team, managing all GTM, Change Management/Systems processes for multiple Product teams.- Led Merch Teams driving Socks 2 year revenue CAGR +3% (+140 Margin BPS) and Footwear: 3 year revenue CAGR +10% (+570 Margin BPS) through line efficiency and category focus (esp. hero items), long term new product planning and identifying both brand assortment and marketplace white space opportunities- Partnered with stakeholders and cross functional teams to streamline GTM processes and documents, reducing and restructuring meetings and creating more engaging documents (both for leadership and cross functional purposes) to enhance company wide strategy engagement and understanding- Led Merch Ops team in improving various product team data hierarchies and processes, resulting in clearer cross functional system/data understanding and improved data flow to internal systems

New York, Ny, Us

- Brought on to grow and expand Footwear category in the long term, focused on Slippers- Expanded category through white space identification to launch new product, enhancing product comfort, and increasing non-Holiday season revenue from 0% to 20%.

New York, Ny, Us

- Category lead for Global Men’s Footwear Merchandising team (2 direct reports), driving seasonal and multi-year strategic product, revenue and margin direction. Spearheaded category strategy build and meeting all GTM milestones from start to finish: lineplanning to developing product to sell in (incl. by segment) to all channels of distribution. - Managed categories that accounted for 65% of company revenue. During the pandemic, increased gross margin rate +164 BPS by focusing on profitable dress casual and sneaker franchises and planning for post-pandemic trends and athletic specialty products.- Led assortment segmentation across US Retail, Wholesale, and International, customizing by account/country to enhance customer experiences and expansion. Resulted in bookings/depth increases and reduced markdowns with key partners like Nordstrom, DSW, and in key markets like China, Japan, UAE, and Saudi Arabia.- Implemented more financially driven lineplans and strategy documents, including a multi-channel financial forecasting tool, to ensure channel level business needs were met and provide clearer strategies for senior leadership.

New York, Ny, Us

- Footwear: Grew Men’s Value/Off-Price Footwear categories by 25% in 3 years, improving gross margin rates by +200 BPS through enhanced product engineering/innovation, revamped account/channel segmentation strategies, and reducing unproductive programs by 40%.- Led assortment segmentation across US Outlet, Wholesale, and International, customizing by account/country to enhance customer experiences and expansion. Resulted in bookings/depth increases and reduced markdowns with key partners like Nordstrom Rack, DSW, Famous Footwear, and in key markets like Japan, Mexico and China.- Accessories: Owned Men’s Bags and Belts/SLGs product line and merchandising strategies, in partnership with licensee partners (incl. Rwanda). Developed seasonal category range plans with special focus on growing within North America Retail and International Retail.- Partnered closely with Design and Product Development to revamp GTM processes to improve product development efficiencies and costs: style/model and SKU targets by GTM milestone, and estimating tooling/mould budgets vs sell-in financial goals and clearer product level costing targets.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Ma, Politics, International Politics And Business Concentration

Ba, Politics, History