Joshua Cork Email & Phone Number

Brooklyn, New York, US

New York, New York, US

New York, US

• Omnichannel planner responsible for pre-, in-, and post-season functions for physical and digital off-price channels. Departments included jewelry, apparel, accessories, and footwear.
• Facilitated rollout of SAP S/4Hana and Microstrategy by translating and validating KPIs across systems, validating ingested data, rebuilding report templates, and acting as superuser contact for cross-functional.
• Recapped quarterly results from myriad perspectives including department, class, raw material, and SKU.
• Partnered cross-functionally to ensure hindsight data accuracy, and to gather additional feedback.
• Used hindsight data to build quarterly sales and receipt plans at a granular level using bottom-up and top-down approaches as needed.
• Ran various scenario analyses to inform weekly promotional decisions.

Paris, Ile-de-France, FR

• Responsible for planning and allocation functions for men's, women's, and children's apparel and accessories across 40 off-price locations.
• Developed markdown life cycle process, increasing markdown velocity by double digits YoY.
• Created store clusterization strategy based on various criteria, implemented complimentary allocation strategies to optimize store-level inventory.
• Collaborated with full-price buying, planning, operations, and field teams to successfully execute routine product transfers to Outlet locations.
• Helped execute the first Lacoste Outlet popup store in North America, now a permanent location.
• Periodically assisted field teams with additional store openings, relocations, and floorsets.

Temple, Texas, US

• Key point of contact for two mass-market retailers with over 2,000 combined locations.
• Managed the performance and development of one Key Account Representative.
• Collaborated with suppliers and customers to inform assortment decisions and promotion planning across various CPG categories.
• Onboarded five new vendors and two new customer departments into company portfolio.
• Reduced stockouts to low-single digits across 20 nationwide distribution points.

Temple, Texas, US

• Analyst for two mass-market retail accounts, responsible for operational tasks including delivery tracking, new item and new vendor onboarding, delivery frequency analysis, EDI troubleshooting, and ad-hoc analysis and.
• Worked collaboratively with internal buying team and external merchant teams to ensure smooth flow of product into and out of 20 distribution points to over 2,000 retail locations.

Temple, Texas, US

Springfield, MO, US

Chicago, IL, US

Richfield, Minnesota, US

Minneapolis, MN, US