Sr. Sales Planner for the Wrangler jeanswear division. Managed sales and inventory planning for 200+ styles across Kmart female tops and bottoms area, along with assorted styles for Sears men’s division. Performed all clearance markdown pricing. • Managed open-to-buy plan on weekly, monthly, and yearly basis, utilizing Arthur planning system. • Grew Kmart’s seasonal business in 2017 from 80K units to 325K, negotiating lower price points with higher margins and showing better profitability from our product. • Created financial ladder plans on each business for basic and seasonal programs for account, presenting planned sales, receipts, sell-thru, and profitability on weekly, monthly, and yearly basis; goal was to consistently hit 80% sell through on seasonal programs and keep turn at 3.5 on basics program. • Worked closely with sales, replenishment, merchandising, and operations, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of product and minimizing risk both internally and to retailer. • Partnered with Category Management, certifying correct product placement and design within Kmart’s stores, maximizing productivity.

Manage sales, margin and inventory on the open-to-buy plan on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis through the Arthur planning system. Responsible for all clearance markdown pricing and timing for both everyday and seasonal businesses. Responsible for creating financial ladder plans on each business at the start of new seasons. Responsible for creating buy plans for each business at the start of new seasons.Creating post-mortem plans after the end of each season for financial review.

Managed inventory performance, including forecasting, receipt flow and planning, allocation to stores, replenishment system, order accuracy, vendor returns, and suffix management. Oversaw sales, margin, and inventory on open-to-buy plan on a weekly, monthly, and yearly basis through Arthur planning system. • Replenished small appliances and floor care, totaling approximately $60M in sales a year, becoming most productive per square inch of any retailer worldwide. • Worked with importers on new product lines and developed ladder plans by week for entire year, ensuring proper inventory flow. • Produced financial ladder plans on each business at start of new seasons, showing planned sales, profitability, and sell-thru of each program. • Created post-mortem plans at end of each season for financial review, analyzing if programs were successful to organization.

Oversaw all of the Purchasing functions, which included maintaining a warehouse of approximately 35000 hydraulic parts. Handled all invoice discrepancies.Coordinated all vendor negotiations, contacts, shipments and receiving.Placed all purchase orders.

Maintained the Villagers Hardware (Home Depot new account) line at a minimum of 98% order fill, which saved them approximately $500,000 in sales a year.Maintained and updated all E3 system files and input, including promotions, initial orders, discontinued sell through and annual forecasts.Reviewed daily inbound shipments. Contributed to daily receiving priorities, as necessary, for communication to Receiving department.Expedited all major vendor orders as necessary and, priority shipments.Coordinated import items; ordering and paperwork confirmation.Coordinated, determined and supervised purchase order processing and shipment expediting with the Assistants. Received numerous letters of acknowledgement from various Home Depot managers for expedient service. Oversaw and managed over $1.5 million in revenue and sales.

Served as a member of a team that oversaw the Nike Kids 0-7/6x line worth $90 million in sales.Established and determined merchandise line planning dates and corresponded time lines with key accounts such as Footlocker, JCPenney and May Company.Worked with Manufacturing, Scheduling and Engineering to research the feasibility and profitability of new garment production.Established sell prices and developed an understanding of gross profit goals.Sourced and negotiated all Nike orient purchases.Set up trigger date calendars to meet production needs and communicated with factories within the US and the orient.Worked with the Traffic department on all shipping rate negotiations which saved the company approximately $10K in late charges.