Lead the omni-channel demand planning for Home Electrics that achieved over $70 million in annual sales. Managed accurate demand forecasts that incorporate current and relevant market information to predict customer demand. • Achieved targeted service level, in stock rate, forecast accuracy, inventory turnover, and financial performance by managing inventory in the distribution network to support store and digital channels.• Co-ordinate and managed the placement of all orders for major vendors that span across all Home Electric categories. • Developed strong partnerships with the vendor community to optimize lead times and order cycles.• Identified opportunities in unproductive inventory creating strategies to increase turn to meet and exceed plan.• Collaborate with the Category Manager and Financial Planner in the development of merchandise plans and strategies to achieve financial budgets.• Identified forecast accuracy root causes and refine process to ensure continuous improvement with a focus on automation.• Reviewed and analyzed event impacts to baseline forecasts to ensure appropriate sales lifts are applied to future events.• Continually support the company’s long-term strategy and inventory reduction while maintaining high customer Service level metrics.

Support the Manufacturing Team in achieving their goals through the creation and maintenance of operational reports and dashboards. Perform data analysis and recommend areas of enhancements. • Maintain and distribute daily/weekly reports by compiling and organizing data from IBM and translating into complex but comprehensive excel reports.• Collaborate with the Manufacturing Supervisors to address the root cause of backorders by complex. Together we reduced the number of customer backorders by analyzing and addressing the top ten issues.• Significantly reduced departmental spending by developing and maintaining excel based budget reporting tool. This is utilized by management to track and compare actual spending by cost center verses annual budgets.• Key player in the success of the company’s quarterly physical inventory. Maintained the calendar of events and actions plans as well as the rooster and role of each associate participating.• Managed the Employee Recognition Program for Manufacturing and Logistics. Developed appropriate rewards, negotiated prices with vendors and distributed to associates when appropriately earned.

Managed business operations for The Dress Furnishings Division that achieved over $30 million in annual sales. Managed store allocations using JDA allocation system along with self-developed space allocation spreadsheet. • Delivered $30+ million in annual sales objectives by addressing the underperformance of PVH Corporation's Dress Furnishings Department, performing data analytics and producing a high-complexity MS Excel spreadsheet as a blueprint for maximizing sales, gross margins, and available space utilization at each of 150 stores chainwide by ensuring timely receipt of correct products and quantities. Efforts reversed negative trend in performance metrics • Contributed to divisional planning team efforts, in collaboration with buying team, to optimize promotional pricing for each product style including regular and special sale pricing. Sales and markdown strategies created and instituted resulted in divisional achievement of gross margin objective exceeding 50%. • Analyzed historical data and current trends to develop effective forecasts for the dress shirt department. Addressed demand related issues and reported changes in sales forecasts in a timely and effective manner. • Researched, developed, and published custom size curves based on specific product classifications. Created store size models based on specific product performances for required period. • Maintained business processes and served as subject-matter expert for process management and improvements.

Supervised and developed five store planners and one PO Expeditor in the Van Heusen Division with over $180 million in annual sales. Oversaw store level product flow, timeliness of product deliveries against product strategy, achieving individual store growth through assessment of inventory needs, demand plans and fashion group replenishment. • Planned, implemented, and monitored the division’s strategy and improved efficiency and productivity across all areas in the supply chain.• Reviewed and approved the rolling 12-month forecasts that project sales and inventory need, by size and location with presentation minimums, sales potential, and current business trend. Shared with sourcing to ensure proper fabric and capacity at vendors. • Worked on an assortment planning process/tool for the company, partnering with upper management and IT team, to better manage store inventory/sales productivity both in units and dollars through individual store model stocks/unit capacity planning. • Extensively collaborated with Merchandising, DC & Logistics partners to ensure timely, accurate, and efficient flow of product through the supply chain cutting delivery time in half for faster to market availability. • Developed new store opening product assortment, monitored receipts ensuring timely arrival of merchandise and analyzed sales for any classification adjustments. • Received employer recognition for superior performance, including selection as “Most Valuable Field Support Associate” for the final 5 years consecutively during which the award was bestowed. • Created a friendly and professional atmosphere, encouraging teamwork, ownership, and pride in job performance to achieve departmental goals.

Developed departmental and seasonal plans in accordance with established goals and objectives to achieve sales of $20 million in the Accessory Department and $10 million in the Men’s Pants Department of the Izod Division. • Prepared merchandise plans by hierarchy to achieve sales, gross margin and turn objectives. • Created core item ladder plans with sales, receipts and retail strategy as well as determining reorder flow and timing. • Analyzed, identified, and recommended course of action for potential opportunities as well as liabilities.• Collaborated with Merchants on quarterly cross-functional Hindsight’s by category to uncover opportunities and maximize future season selling• Managed business shifts due to holidays, promotions/trends including "out" dates for seasonal merchandise. • Determined regular and promotional pricing strategies effective in maintaining gross margins on all accessories and men’s pants.