I am a proven leader and results driven in Project Management, Supply Chain, Logistics, Planning with expertise in the consumer and manufacturing industry. Seeking a new leadership opportunity. Please contact me via LinkedIn or at dwitt1504@gmail.com

• Promoted to position and led team of nine merchandise planners/ inventory analysts/ data specialists with sales, margin, inventory planning, forecasting, inventory management and data analysis. • Developed and implemented sales, inventory and margin plans within multiple merchandise categories.• Hired, trained and developed staff members. Created growth plans that would achieve the company/ team goals.• Identified opportunity and led team on assortment and store level planning models to increase overall sales and inventory productivity based on regional demand to micro and cross merchandise. • Partnered strategically with merchandising, marketing, operations, distribution center, eCommerce to achieve/exceed the company sales and inventory yearly targets through collaborative efforts. • Led cross divisional and departmental team to allocate inventory between Kay and Jared for the timepiece division of 10+ brands to improve inventory procurement, allocation, planning, and developing productive assortments driving positive sales. • Increased inventory productivity by reduction of residual in excess through strategic repositioning in stores along with mark downs and reducing inventory in unproductive warehouse locations. • Developed and maintained in-stock targets during promotions and peak seasons to maximize sales.• Led team and provided detailed qualitative and quantitative analysis regarding sales, margins, inventory and pricing. Ex: Product expansions, marketing profitability, sales promotions, seasonal shifts in sales, and pricing/profitability.• Developed strategic and equal partnership with Brands and vendors to drive and maintain balance to ensure both parties exceeded goals. • Developed and led team that managed annual procurement of inventory while balancing to a monthly asset and consignment budget to maintain productivity and open to buy.

• Created strategy and coordinated successful movement of inventory from closing stores to top store mitigating sales losses across multiple departments and divisions resulting in the strategy being implemented across the entire company.• Directed cross departmental team on the warehouse locations with the DC, SO, manufacturing, special events and repair. Strategized and developed a plan receiving partnership to determine areas to process more efficiently to reach overall goal to reduce inventory. • Provided strategic insight on cross divisional/departmental sales transfer task force for closing stores. Led and gained team commitment using email campaign driving sales directly from the emails and utilizing the process going forward.• Created a down trending mid-tier 150 door test to prove removing non-selling product and replacing with proven styles faster than historically possible would drive positive comp store growth with key areas achieving 5% lift compared to test doors.• Coordinated with over eight departments to create a Loose Diamond Event driving sales along with the original purpose of reducing inventory by $3M.

• Led and managed team of five demand planners and inventory analysts in Watch Dept across 1500 plus stores.• Created strategic approach to develop store groups based on sales needs by brand for men's and ladies which was rolled out to all Brands reducing unproductive inventory to support allocations of funds into productive product.

• Led and managed team of four Planner/ Analysts to ensure all stores were provided merchandise to meet regional sales demand to achieve overall sales goals.• Created the merchandise logistics position developing the strategies and processes to meet business need. • Provided insights and forecasts on four major touch points for merchandising and DC to function in unison to increase productivity of merchandise and the DC flow. • Managed the reverse logistics program and process for the Merchandising and IMPACT department.

• Managed team for both Kay.com and Jared.com while launching a new Ecommerce strategy to be competitive and gain market share from direct competition.• Served as eCommerce analyst for Kay and Jared.com providing forecasting and allocation analysis for 3K+ skus.• Ensured program in-stocks for assortments and promotional events.• Created and managed inbound and outbound forecasts for the eCommerce distribution center enabling proper staffing based on seasonal volumes.• Coordinated with various DC Managers daily to assist in the flow of inventory to and from the Ecommerce fulfillment center to support sales. • Coordinated sales projections and forecasts to marketing to recommend future email marketing of product. • Provided strategic recommendations, front-line prospective and potential testing support for IT on any projects or enhancements to an ecommerce site.

• Appointed to the newly created role to provide eCommerce analysis and forecasting for over 3000 skus for Kay and Jared.com.

• Manage international freight shipments for FTL and LTL shipments to ensure minimizing shipping expense.• Work with importers on pricing and lead times to meet the overall margin goal and deliver within the lead time needed to meet sales demand.• Corporate sales of industrial goods to support manufacturing supply chain.