Emily Francis Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

• Manage the P&L, budget, and forecast for Team Sports Apparel and Sports License Hardlines desks.• Lead a data-backed process that allocates all fashion racks in Men’s Apparel. Receive buy-in from VP and Sr. Director. • Demonstrate team-player attitude by taking additional responsibility of a ~$1 billion desk. Trained and mentored new associate who inherited desk on the intricacies of the business.• Influence key stakeholders (SVP, VP, Sr. Director) to change rack plan policy; exception to policy reduced Weeks of Supply by 70%, saved 60% in markdown dollars, and drove 74% comp YoY in affected stores.• Conduct analysis that found over 5% of category’s inventory is considered Phantom Inventory (PI). Removing PI from the P&L led to growth in key performance metrics.

Bentonville, Arkansas

• Manage the P&L, budget, and forecast for Team Sports Apparel. Grew comparable sales the most in Men’s Apparel in FYE 2020. Won “Best Q2 Profit” in FYE 2020 in all of Apparel.• Led markdown allocation for the entire Men’s Apparel Department. • Training lead for Apparel Analytics, a group that streamlines processes and creates data visualization to aid associates. Average attendance of 150 associates per training.• Sponsored MBA intern project to investigate the formation of a Sports Council. Coached, mentored, and drove the growth and development of the intern throughout the summer of 2020.• Created hierarchy and budget from scratch to ensure seamless department consolidation for Sports License, a hardlines business that Men’s Apparel absorbed.

Bentonville, Arkansas

• Designed assortment optimization process which makes recommendations on which SKUs to delete from assortments. The process saved $2.4 million in labor costs and $1 million in negotiations with one supplier in one category.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Forte Fellow

Bachelor'S, History

Honors Program