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Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Hudson, Ohio, United States

• Coached team of 3 demand planners to produce accurate sales and receipt forecasts for 2500 skus while meeting company in stock targets and inventory plan. Drove forecast alignment between replenishment, planning, and.
• Increased inventory efficiency this fiscal year by identifying critical gaps in store profiling thatprevented inventory distortion into top performing stores. This change to baseline processreduced inventory by 10%.
• Built and published weekly reporting to share KPI performance for merchandise and store groupswith executive leadership and category management team.
• Maximized pandemic sales opportunity in 2020 through quick pivots with team to reforecast salesand negotiate additional inventory with vendor partners. Utilized Ad Hoc reporting and systemknowledge to execute.
• Project manager for massive fabric repricing initiative that required updating pricing stickers onall bolts of fabric in all stores and DCs. Collaborated cross functionally to buy, deliver, and execute stickers on.

Hudson, Ohio, United States

• Coached and developed team of 4 demand planners to produce accurate sales and receiptforecasts for 5000 skus while meeting company in stock targets and inventory plan. Droveforecast alignment between replenishment.
• Created and hired a new Fulfillment Analyst position who removed the PO change and PO tracking work-load from the demand planners.
• Project Manager for implementation of vendor short ship fining process.

Hudson, Ohio

• Managed system forecasts, manual allocation, PO and supply chain tracking for new POG sets, weekly KPI reporting for category team, and root cause analysis for in stock challenges.
• Learned life in the trenches of the JOANN demand planning position which led to a promotion and 5 successful years as a demand planning manager.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Led assortment strategy and supply chain management of Ever Us, Jane Seymour Open Hearts, and Neil Lane brands of diamond fashion business for Kay and Jared stores and E-commerce.
• Managed daily execution, monthly projections and bi-annual productivity analysis for 275 SKUs across multiple brands and categories that generated $175M in annual volume.
• Drove Jane Seymour Open Hearts Holiday 2016 sales from down 25% versus last year to flatby authoring and executing upside strategy that utilized pre-positioned spring receipts through trusted partnership with vendor.
• Conducted root cause analysis to reduce key product end of season carry over inventory by$1M compared to prior year.
• Handled timeline planning, vendor management, and final execution of highly visible Ever Us fashion launch, part of company’s most successful brand launch in history, and provided weekly sales performance and status.
• Maintained weekly in stock rates of 95% and above across large sku base through detailedsales tracking, vendor partnerships, and strategic store replenishment.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Introduced corporate merchandise planning methods to team of three buyers with focus on inventory reduction, projection accuracy, and work load efficiency.
• Oversaw creation and management of financial plans, strategies and Open-To-Buy for all categories of the Arhaus business.Decreased monthly projection work load time by 50% through creation of EXCEL basedplanning and.
• Drove double digit comp sales in the $100M wood category by directly managing the category upon resignation of buyer.

• Director of Merchandise Planning
• Led team of three managers and six planners through intensive office relocation and restructuring while driving merchandise planning, reporting and rebranding of $400M business
• Hired and developed new team when buying office moved from Montreal, Canada to Columbus, OH.Developed and implemented L Brands planning discipline and rigor through establishment of new process, new systems and.
• Executed planning strategies through collaborative relationships with Merchandising, Sourcing, Operations, Distribution and Marketing.
• Communicated daily, weekly and monthly business trends and forecasts to leadership through daily emails, weekly meetings and monthly financial forecast sessions.
• Reduced end of season carryover inventory by 25% through implementation of seasonal planning and coding thereby enabling carryover inventory to be sold through in stores instead of implementing prior strategy of.

• Managed financial plans and strategies for $500M annual female bottoms business for Abercrombie & Fitch, Abercrombie, Hollister, and Gilly Hicks brands.
• Led female bottoms team producing Fall season sales that exceeded total company and female tops performance by 7 percentage points.Achieved double digit sales increase over prior year in knit pants by executing.
• Exceeded Spring 2010 sales plan by exploiting woven skirt opportunity through strategic interpretation of concept and test information that related to merchant trigger strategy.
• Directly managed and trained three planners over all brands.
• Exploited sales opportunities by deep diving into business via weekly meetings with merchants, planners, and allocators structured to review sales, generate action plans and incorporate new thinking into plans while.
• Presented business opportunities to planning management and CEO to procure funding necessary to maximize sales. Senior Planning Manager, Training and Implementation of Oracle–based Retail Merchandising System (RMS).

• Managed financial plans and merchandise strategies for Ruehl brand as it grew from $9M four store chain to 25 store $55M annual business.
• Managed and developed team of 25 Ruehl brand planners.
• Added 10% incremental sales volume by launching Ruehl website Feb 2008 in partnership with e-commerce team.
• Increased gross sales by crafting seasonal Ruehl financial projections in collaboration with finance team based on new store openings and same store sales projections.
• Provided Ruehl performance awareness to CEO and upper management by presenting monthly financial forecasts and results.
• Drove 30-point margin improvement over four years by developing IMU targets for merchants and sourcing team. Reduced markdown rate by 40 points over four years by controlling stock levels and implementing new clearance.

• Developed and executed financial and assortment plans for A&F brand female twill and active bottoms business. Controlled all aspects of business management and growth via historical and trend analysis, lifecycle.
• Trained and promoted planners.

Career positions held at Structure were Assistant Buyer, Allocator, and Store Planner.

B.S., Retail Management

Graduated Phi Kappa Phi

Associate Of Arts And Sciences - Aas, Retail Management