Jane Mitchell Email & Phone Number

Emeryville, Ca

Greatest recent impact has been as a business analyst reporting directly to the President, focusing on the critical numbers that impact growth, productivity, efficiency and ultimately profit. After analyzing these numbers both at the detail and macro level, I made specific recommendations for improvement, whether fine tuning or revamping the approach completely. Consistent reports were then produced against these new targets and I identified trends that supported and challenged the assumptions of the existing business models. These efforts produced a 300 basis point margin saving that directly impacted the company’s profit line and created massive operational savings from my accurate predictions.Over the past 2 years I led the budget creation and review process across two divisions and fifteen departments. This involved meeting with all budgetary heads individually, analyzing all line details, uncovering opportunity to improve flow through profitability both in the short and long term and spearheading discussions resulting in consensus on shared critical numbers. Initiated a three year financial road map with key triggers to predict growth and profit over the longer term. Designed more accurate models to forecast returns and gross margin – two of the three most critical numbers to the company.

Emeryville, Ca

Managed the IT team who were responsible for all aspects of Title Nine's technology needs from help desk and daily maintenance to major new system project implementation and upgrades.Served as the primary liaison between IT and other departments and communicated effectively with technical and non technical thinkers.Partnered with share holders and programmers to brainstorm and create and produce proprietary solutions for the needs of the business.Multitasked and juggled ever changing priorities to ensure the critical operational needs of the business were met first. Pride working closely with both internal and external resources to keep projects on time and on budget.Oversaw all contract resources and set both short and long term budgets to achieve goals and projects to have the technology in place to support the company's growth and needs.

Emeryville, Ca

Created a balanced merchandise plan and buy for Title Nine’s multichannel retail business. Presented to owner and president as well as departmental heads of merchandising, marketing and retail. Strategized ways to increase gross margin, receive goods in a timely and efficient manner for distribution to all channels by key marketing deadlines. Managed inventory turns to target levels, protected margins and ensured excess was liquidated in a timely and cost effective way.Liaised with Director of Operations to maximize distribution center’s labor efficiencies around warehouse reorganizations, receiving priorities, and returns processing to ensure highest possible order fill rates. Mentored a team of analysts and buyers to forecast sales, write purchase orders, allocate inventory to all channels and oversee all vendor relationships, including bi-annual vendor reports and compliance agreements.Worked with Director of Retail to plan profitable five fold growth of retail channel over 3 year period.

Emeryville, Ca

Successfully developed, directed and implemented customer acquisition and retention programs, circulation plans, marketing operations, list management programs and sales forecasting.Created detailed forecast of yearly sales that served as the key source for projected workflow of all divisions, with particular emphasis on efficient operational flow. Managed vendor relationships and negotiated price points for merge/purge processing, list optimization, off-site modeling and analysis, list brokerage and list management. Negotiated and managed contract details with printers, paper suppliers, color separators, model and studio photographers. Focused on technological advances in all above sectors and architected the timely introduction of new processes to Title Nine Sports.Managed accuracy and integrity of Title Nine’s customer house-file which enabled more accurate growth and profitability projections.