• Drive improvements in forecasting accuracy and fill rate• Oversee demand planning and replenishment for over 300 SKUs• Forecast future supply needs and initiate proactive communications with international and domestic suppliers• Identify and execute solutions to overcome short-term and long-term supplier issues• Create container configurations from multiple overseas suppliers to our domestic warehouses• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Sales, Production, Warehouse/Logistics) to drive inventory optimization• Partner with Sales to support new customer product launches, customer pipeline orders, and promotional events

• Responsible for executing strategies within Mens Non-Athletic Shoes, creating pre-season and maintaining in-season plans according to business and company needs.• Analyze sales trends, inventory levels, gross margin, liquidity, and open to buy, identifying and acting on any areas of opportunity or risk. Maintain close partnerships with buyers in order to ensure all go forward plans are appropriate.• Perform independent analyses and make actionable recommendations to senior leadership in order to drive subdivision profits.• Generate comprehensive reports by region using Citrix (JDA), RDW systems, and Microsoft Excel to interpret sales recaps and ad-hoc performance.

• Responsible for creating regional and store level plans for various product classifications within the Ladies Shoes Division• Collaborate with Buyers, Merchandise Planning Analysts, and managers to enhance strategic planning throughout all aspects of the pre-season and in-season cycles to execute regional initiatives that ensure positive comparative growth• Generate comprehensive reports by region using Citrix (JDA), RDW systems, and Microsoft Excel to interpret sales recaps and ad-hoc performance• Identify areas of opportunity and risk to drive results of performance optimization by region to assure profitable sales and inventory plans by delivering assortment and the most current trend to our customers

•Member of the Shoe Division Planning team; completed weekly, monthly and seasonal processes and completed a hind-sighting project for the Southwest region•Develop regional product strategies and review with Location Planning Manager•Review in-season system generated forecast recommendations to determine which recommendations to accept/reject based on business performance and expected future business conditions •Conduct a regional review across products to develop future region plans and flow recommendations

Collected, organized, constructed ,and quality-assured country macroeconomic and financial data. This reflected the important global economic and financial indicators that governments and markets rely on.