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New York City Metropolitan Area

Greater New York City Area

San Mateo, Ca

San Mateo, Ca

San Francisco Bay Area

Leverage extensive industry knowledge to support the continuous development of financial strategies for complex merchandise categories by analyzing relevant data and utilizing bottom up inventory planning to develop effective recommendations. Held accountable for analyzing seasonal inventory flow plans to ensure customer demand and return on investment goals are met while supporting multiple departments and categories and managing planners.Demonstrate expertise in merchandise planning and replenishment to develop, implement, and improve action plans and to provide expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices.Directly responsible for driving item-level replenishment within complex/high-growth merchandise categories by placing orders for owned inventory. Fully align/support efforts to meet customer and business needs.Maintain and implement financial plans and open-to-buy (OTB) forecasts for the department as well as oversee coordinate, and complete job-related activities and assignments for merchandise planning and replenishment.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Successful relationship with key national accounts including Best Buy & Target with sales and marketing plans to build the brand, establish retail footprint, and driving consumer salesResponsible for placing/managing iLuv products in key US retailers such as Target and Best Buy, both inline and onlineCollaborate with key accounts on concept to placement marketing to continually grow market share and profitabilityOwn and execute all of the main account functions, including developing long term and quarterly business plans, forecasting, ad planning, ROI growth and new product introductionMonitor industry trends and identify emerging business opportunities that will drive growth and profitability within the MP3 accessory business

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Apple IPod and MP3 AccessoriesResponsible for receipt forecasting, launching and managing new/existing product assortmentsCollaborate with vendor partners on Supply Chain improvements to reduce lead time from factory to store Actively involved in cost reduction and securing sell thru support from vendors on product not performing to forecastHolding weekly collaborative CPFR forecasting calls with vendors for better planning & supportWork with forecasting group to ensure accurate forecasts are entered to nullify out of stock or oversold issuesSubject Matter Expert for Dot Com issues including SKU maintenance, backorder management and system optimizationBuild analysis tool to help team analyze opportunities to maintain high in-stocks and good inventory levels for Dot Com DC'sPlay important role in driving Team CA on or above budget by communicating real time numbers and motivating teamDistribute weekly Dot Com updates to team members highlighting availability messaging, in-stocks and backorder flowConduct research and identify trends into broader topics related to the strategy for Best Buy's brick and mortar business, including revenue growth and strategic potentialActively plays a part in team development coaching junior analysts along with development and team building Recognized for gaining market share in MP3 Acc last year

Car Audio, Best Buy Canada HQ 2004-2007Collaborate with merchandising team to develop monthly/weekly forecasts for inventory and open to buy requirements at Dept/Class levelResponsible for end-to-end inventory strategy for all of Car Audio including procurement of goods into DC's and storesMaintained vendor to DC and DC to store order requirements that are housed within the replenishment systemReview in-stocks and critical stock dates to ensure that the replenishment system is consistent across all SKUsCommunicate effectively with Corporate Supply Chain and Supplier teams to ensure proper inventory levels at the DC's and Retail to support overall inventory strategy Won Employee of the month award in Nov-05 for the successful launch of Satellite radio

Responsible for monitoring and ordering inventory for all Texas stores, along with acting as a link between Corporate and RetailIdentify low in-stock and ad substitution SKU list for stores and address with corporate inventory teamAssist stores with no lemon exchange/customer issues etc.Recognized for helping Region 3 in moving close out inventory rank from #13 to #4 in the company

B.B.A, Marketing

Bachelor Of Business Administration; Bachelor Of Business Administration, Marketing; Accounting