Deborah Albert Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Cedar Knolls, New Jersey

• Responsible for management and preparation of company’s monthly/annual wholesale sales forecast in tandem with to the corporate P&L.
• Manage wholesale and web seasonal buy plans, including monthly sales, inventory, markdowns and gross margin projections.
• Implemented new planning, forecasting and analysis tools for both wholesale and E-Commerce divisions.
• Analyze performance at the style, color and size level to appropriate recommendations for re-orders, future purchases and sell off strategies.
• Established and coordinate on a weekly basis, inventory strategy meetings across sales, merchandising and web divisions.
• Provide merchandising, pricing and marketing strategies for wholesale and E-Commerce segments of the company.

Greater New York City Area

• Reporting directly to the President of Russell Newman Brands. Responsible for the management and execution of the corporate wholesale/retail vertical planning, production and customer sales orders, inventory levels.
• Implemented weekly processes and procedures to forecast weekly/monthly/annual shipments of the company to ensure the overall achievement of corporate financial plans.
• Responsible for preparation of annual budget and monthly forecasts in tandem with the overall corporate strategies.
• Analyze and identify via key performance indicators opportunities to increase revenue and decrease cost within the operational functions of the company.
• Manage quarterly/seasonal margin settlements.
• Work in tandem with key retail planners to develop seasonal assortment plans in tandem to the retailer open to buy.

Wayne, New Jersey

• Direct implementation of John Gault Solutions, Demand Planning / Supply Chain Management software system. Reporting to the CFO responsible for overall inventory management, flow of goods and Supply Chain to achieve.
• Implemented software system to be used for Demand Planning, Sales Forecasting and purchase order generation of 4000+ skus.
• Responsible for the companies Operations Planning, Demand Forecast Management, and Supply Chain Management to achieve overall company efficiencies and goals.
• Provide and present weekly and monthly forecast during Senior Management meetings.
• Manage and provide costing of discontinued and closeout inventory.
• Provide capacity plans and purchase forecast for factories based on demand plans for factories.

• Co-owner of the business plan, reporting to VP of Sales. Recruited by VP of Sales to implement strategic planning and business management solutions to improve sales, forecasting, Demand Planning, profitability, and.
• Immediately challenged to reduce skus in retail product line, editing the sku base from over 400 skus to an optimal retail offering of 130 skus –The results improved sales, gross margin and demand planning accuracy by.
• Partnered in development and implementation of product category management hierarchy resulting in, higher margin products, replacing low margin styles, and the first ever national pricing solution that allowed.
• Executed account and channel specific business solutions that resulted in a sales increase of 15.3%. Business solutions centered on item/door analysis of our key partners, providing the most productive product.
• Reversed downward trend in key NY Metro retailer by aligning product assortment by item, by door, set-up model stocks by door, reconfiguring plan-o-grams. This strategy and implementation resulted in a 21% increase in.
• Devised, gained approval, and executed bottom ups sku roll-up by account to drive demand planning and margin visibility – The results improved sales, gross margin, and demand planning accuracy.

• Recruited by CEO and VP of Sales, both former Associates from Ralph Lauren Childrenswear to devise, gain approval and execute Retail and Wholesale planning and analysis tools and business processes resulting in the.
• Effectively partnered with CFO to reengineer profitability analysis by customer, product category and classification. Improved internal gross margin by 2% in first year.
• Instituted new methods for analyzing Retail Markdowns and Gross Margins which resulted in the mitigation of retail markdowns, improved retail gross margins.
• Successfully negotiated quarterly, seasonal and annual vendor margin assistance, resulting in a $750K savings for the company in year one.
• Initiated and executed improved processes for product sales review, style and classification analysis, as well as distribution. Improved product planning and delivery for the US and Canadian market.
• Partnered with VP of Information Technology in the design and implementation of computer system upgrades and additions.

• Recruited by the VP of Sales to be involved in all launch requirements, including planning, sales, merchandising, product development, negotiations, fixture design, marketing, recruiting, hiring and training for.
• Strategized and executed retail analysis and planning solutions that resulted in the implementation of a comprehensive business analysis process on a weekly, monthly and annual basis.
• Established, executed and provided monthly, seasonal and annual merchandise and fiscal plans to all Status Brand licensors.
• Evaluated, strategized and implemented allocation processes with each status brand team, ensuring on time product delivery. Resulting in the achievement of sales goals, inventory turnover, mitigation of markdowns and.
• Devised and executed quarterly and season vendor margin analysis, resulting in a savings of $1 million dollars in vendor assistance in year one.
• Strategized, developed and executed fixture and merchandising standards for Timberland, Kenneth Cole, Ecko and G-Unit childrenswear brands.