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San Francisco, California, United States

United States

San Mateo, California, United States

San Mateo, California

• Analyze and forecast demand for $481M annual North American action cameras business partnering with sales managers, channel inventory, account planning, and senior leadership to create and manage forecasts for supply.
• Developed and established various excel forecasting tools for the global demand planning team in the ongoing development and maintenance of demand planning processes and systems to streamline and improve forecasting.
• Work with senior leadership to manage and publish combined forecast for a product category, ensuring overall forecast is in line with company targets

San Francisco, California

• Drive S&OP process by developing, refining, and presenting to cross-functional teams root cause analysis and identifying key business measures ensuring issues are appropriately addressed or escalated to executive teams.
• Planned and launched global production while coordinating allocations, and prioritizations with cross-functional teams driving new $56M children’s wearable tracker program. Credited with first tracker in Fitbit history.
• Reduced excess inventory by 300k through geo-balancing inventory, de-kit/re-kit to support demand during limited production resulting in lowering E&O costs by $4M
• Spearheading 110k battery replacement and rework project for Alta program ensuring Fitbit achieves $27M sales goal for Q3/Q4 ’18
• Communicate monthly, quarterly, and annual production goals and translate the sales forecast into supply goals for the sustaining programs to operate against

San Francisco, California

• Delivered monthly consensus proposals through collaborating with cross functional teams to reach consensus on strategic decisions which helped grow top line sales 10.7% for 2016
• Developed, implemented, and trained John Galt Stat Forecasting analytic tool to assist sales directors with forecasting, increased forecast accuracy by +10%
• Analyzed and reported weekly and monthly sales performance for new product launches, core product assortment assessment against plan and previous forecast
• Designed and created new weekly and monthly forecast analysis spreadsheets involving sell in and stat forecasting modeling. Trained all sales directors assisting in annual sales increase by 5%

Greater New York City Area

• PLANNING MANAGER - Women’s Wovens, Dresses, Bottoms and Outerwear
• Lead entire Merchandise Planning department for Women’s Wovens, Dresses, Bottoms and Outerwear driving $112M Outlet business
• Drove $400k gross margin for Q1 Oxford program with “transfer up” strategy
• Support and managed three Merchandise Planners and Distribution Analysts for insights and optimizationPLANNING MANAGER - Men’s Accessories
• Maximize entire Men’s Accessory Outlet business by identifying gross margin opportunity through strategic promotions generating additional $575k for Q2
• Analyzed marketing programs to strategically drive the customer experience.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Provided financial insights, direction, and assortment quantification that tied the merchandise buys to the financial plans improving gross margin rate by 270 basis points for all of License Division
• Analyzed historical data and current trends to identify new inventory opportunities and assortment risks to formulate promotional strategies increasing Q1 sales by 12%
• Earned multiple awards for exceeding sales and profit plans. Received “ICON” award

• Worked closely with senior leadership and buying team to develop, validate, and execute key business strategies for 80% of total company revenue.
• Collaborated with buying team by providing in-depth financial analysis, e-commerce analytics, and cross merchandising opportunities for new product assortment resulting propelling annual sales by 22%
• Developed and implemented the design, installation and training of Evant planning system
• Recognized as Employee of the Month October 2005

• Drove promotional activities through extensive sales history research and detailed Excel modeling to maximize sales, inventory and profitability to achieve financial results.
• Reduced a negative trending denim business from a -19% to only -10% in 6 months by implementing tiered store markdowns resulting in 5% annual sales increase
• Earned “Gap Star” award

• Lead Men’s Shoe team in the development of financial plans and partnered with the buying team to deliver assortment and flow strategies that align and support the needs of the Men’s shoe business
• Identified and surfaced business trends and risk while proactively managing business needs to enhance profitability.
• Successfully promoted from Business Analyst to Senior Business Analyst
• Received Silver SAC for achieving sales and margin goals. Twice awarded Team Member of the month

Ba, Business Management

Master Of Science (M.S.), Sports Business

Activities and Societies: Vice President - Sports Business SocietyExtensive coursework in Business Strategy, Marketing, Finance, Economics.