Greg Short Email & Phone Number

San Leandro, California, United States

United States

Responsible for the overall planning for four brands within Amyris: Rose Inc, EcoFabulous, Stripes, and Menolabs, owning the tops down financial plans, and the bottoms up inventory plans. Lead a team of Planning and Inventory Managers. - Led the global expansion of Rose Inc, delivering +178% YOY Growth - Led the pre-launch plans for Stripes, building bottoms up launch plans - Led the pre-launch plans for EcoFabulous across 90 skus - Drove an inventory reduction initiative to reduce inventory by 10% by year end - Led forecasting and planning for retail expansion into the UK and Brazil for 2022

San Francisco Bay Area

San Bruno, Ca

Sr Planning manager, Men's Apparel. Managed a portfolio of or $1B in annual sales in Apparel, Prestige Beauty, and Handbags. Led a team of four merchandise planners. Led the pre-season and in-season planning activities for the Apparel division for Walmart.com. Managed the monthly OTB. Developed several forecasting tools that are used across the organization. vendor forecasting tool that was rolled out across the organization. Developed a comp metrics forecast for the division, to drive a tops down view of the annual plan.Team captain for Team Walmart, raising money for the AIDS Lifecycle. Proficient in Microsoft Office, Essbase, Anaplan, Thoughtspot, Looker, JDA. Advanced skills in Excel, working with macros, pivot tables, data slicers, v-lookups, etc.

San Francisco Bay Area

Part of the core team brought onboard to launch Piperlime.com. Led pre-season and in-season activities for Men’s Footwear, establishing seasonal sales, margin, and inventory targets, at the department, class, and brand.Managed the Tops down comp metrics forecast for the total company, forecasting traffic, conversion, and order economics. Developed replenishment tool for the division to optimize sales and inventory for individual brands, at the size level, which was rolled out to other divisions.Managed the pre-launch capital and expense forecast for the company, working with the functional heads to deliver an informed forecast to senior leadership.

Consolidated the monthly forecasts for all Gap brands, working with cross functional brand partners to identify risks and opportunities, and report out to key management group, including Investor Relations, the SVP of Finance and the Board of Directors. Built the framework, to migrate forecasts to Hyperion Essbase, , building out the Essbase cube, building the Essbase templates, trained all brand forecasting managers, and acted as the Essbase administrator. Received corporate recognition award in 2005 for developing scorecard to measure forecast accuracy, which brands are measured against.Developed a database to track PTO for the corporation.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for providing financial support for all product categories merchandised on the Bestbuy.com website, including sales and margin forecasting, demand planning, promotional analytics, web analytics, and financial and operational reporting. Managed the annual budgeting activities for the entire website, working with analysts to determine sales and margin targets for each department and roll out to their teams. Responsible for the training and on-boarding of new Sr. Analysts. Oversaw the implementation on Microstrategies Reporting for the Planning and Merchandising team. Created and wrote training materials, and coordinated training of 200 employees.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Managed purchasing and merchandising strategies for furniture division building relationships with vendors, negotiating cost and delivery schedules to maximize sales.Provided 90-day sales forecasts and measured performance versus plan; introduced new products, managed open-to-buy, inventory levels and markdowns and oversaw product lifecycles. Created seasonal and promotional sales and marketing strategies which resulted in increased revenue.Devised and rolled out vendor management program; developed scorecard to analyze and report vendor performance; created workaround strategies for incompatible furniture systems.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Oversaw day-to-day store operations including opening/closing procedures and merchandising strategies; established and maintained sales goals for multiple departments which achieved $21 million in revenue.Supervised, recruited, hired, set development goals and evaluated performance for up to 77 employees.Trained team in customer service, sales techniques, product knowledge and operations procedures.Member of team to coordinate the launch of new store including merchandising, staffing and new business development for store which achieved revenue of over $100 million; served as acting store manager.Managed the New Accounts Program for the entire store establishing goals and measuring performance for all departments. Member of Target’s Diversity Committee for 7 years.