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California, United States

Oakland, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Provided senior consulting services for large multinational retailers including Old Navy, Ralph Lauren, and Ann Taylor.§ 12-month assignment as an interim Director of Inventory Management, owned a team of 3 inventory management professionals and accountable for vendor management, demand planning, inventory optimization, and people management. § Spearheaded the development of new Inventory Management KPI reporting and dashboards. § Devised requirements for new Distribution Center Warehouse Management System.

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead Old Navy’s annual inventory acquisition of raw materials and 1 billion units of finished inventory that drove $8B in annual revenue. Orchestrate ERP systems enhancements for buying track operations with Production Management, Sourcing, Merchandising, Planning, Allocation, Finance, International Sourcing, Vendors, Mill Management, IT, and Logistics functional teams.§ Own the operations for the production pipeline and the reporting of KPI’s to senior leadership, and oversight of S&OP process. § Develop and manage seasonal strategies with Responsive capabilities that better align inventory stock with manufacturing materials and supply. § Build, monitor, and assess key inventory purchasing support mitigation strategies to offset financial risk for; Covid factory closures, Supply Chain disruptions, factory lateness, and adjusting receipt timing to support business trend and forecast. § Assess impact of forecast accuracy on raw materials placement and develop new corporate forecasting approach that drove 50% improvement in forecast accuracy. § Develop and lead global supply chain operations team. § Create process to ensure accurate demand plans for VMI products. § Advocate for Global Supply Chain Operations team developmental opportunities, providing feedback and coaching to drive performance management.

San Diego, California

Managed a $2 Billion-dollar Omni business for over 1,500 store locations with 4 direct reports and an overall team of 12.§ Owned and created pre-season and in-season inventory strategies that supported total product plans; including management of monthly Open to Buy forecast process, Top-Down and Bottom-Up plans, as well as management of the S&OP process. § Improved in stock rates and service levels by 2 points delivering +3% retail sales comp growth due to improved replenishment and vendor management strategies. § Implemented significant improvements and upgrades to JDA Advanced Warehouse Replenishment tool lowering supply chain costs by $14M and increased store in stocks. § Designed new organization and hired and trained 12 new inventory management professionals while transferring work from and all India based operations to California. § Optimized store inventory to drive 30% retail comp sales on seasonal products by reducing exposure time and improve in store stock level.

New York, Ny

Redesigned all Pre-Season systems and processes for Buying, Planning, and Allocation teams for Gap Inc.’s luxury brand Intermix.§ Managed all ERP project processes including Project Management, Process Design, Change Management, Tool Development, and Training. § Collaborated with business leaders to develop enterprising tools and redesign business processes to improve sales, profitability, and decision-making. § Implemented merchandise assortment and planning tools that drove 45% sales growth for E-Commerce channel and 2.1% comparable store sales increase.

San Francisco, Ca

Provided strategic leadership for inventory planning, buying, and allocation to support ECommerce brand re-launch for Gap Inc.’s E-Commerce luxury brand Piperlime.§ Created & implemented new system to manage website merchandising enabling the business to visually assort by collection as well as prioritize products by key item importance. § Reduced unproductive SKU’s resulting in 260 basis point gross margin increase and cost savings of $3M. § Devised distinctive promotional marketing process that drove incremental sales increases of 430%.

San Francisco, Ca

Drove all corporate communication and change management processes for implementation of new Oracle $110M enterprise inventory assortment and buying modules for Gap Inc.§ Gained Board of Director and Executive buy-in across multiple business divisions. § Completed organizational design structure to support new processes. § Championed and mentored a 6-person change management and business process design team with corporate implementation that delivered 50 basis point increase to gross margin and cost savings of $79M.