Jill Sneath Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Lead engagement support team overseeing the bankruptcy billing administration in the turnaround and restructuring practice.

New York, United States

Mahwah, New Jersey

Managed the entire process of developing cohesive and global location plans to maximize regional opportunities across multiple categories. Drove growth by analyzing store trends to identify customer needs, and develop strategies to influence the buying and flow of product. Partnered and led other cross functional team members within Planning, Merchandising, Allocation, Marketing and Field Partners to positively impact the business and achieve goals.• Key contributor on the team that successfully built and integrated the Location Planning function into the Dressbarn organization.• Proven leader and strategist led to internal movement to Dress category, $150M or 20% of the total business. • Created a reporting tool for Location Planners to review their location plans by cluster, and be utilized during key meetings with leadership to drive business decisions.• Utilized demographics and analyzed metrics to create the Lifestyle cluster to enhance the buying process and develop a more customer centric assortment.• Led the initiative and committee for improving the process of communicating with the Field Partners by facilitating Webinars regularly to 100+ Associates.

Managed a team of planning analysts in the development of Pre-Season and In-Season region and store/class plans. Identified, recommended, and implemented strategies for region and store/class plans utilizing the key planning metrics to maximize sales and profitability. Collaborated and partnered with Merchants, Merchandise Control, Allocation, and New Store teams on key business initiatives.• Effectively analyzed business at higher and lower levels to develop region and store plans for 30+ new classes.• Successfully identified and implemented a new planning process to the Pre-Season region and store/class plans as a key contributor on the project team.• Executed a regional strategy to flow seasonal product as a year round business using a “bottoms-up” planning approach which resulted in driving the chain strategy.

Managed and led associates on the Buying team to ensure timely completion of all core responsibilities. Demonstrated strong knowledge of product, sales plan and history, recognizing selling trends, and demographics to create and present a high level of analysis and reporting to all levels of management. Fulfilled all the department functions of planning and distribution within the Buying team.• Led the development of the Fall 2008 product line and evaluation of pricing strategies based on significant cost increases.• Generated $10 million of incremental sales by identifying and growing a category.• Appointed member of the Long-Term Strategic Planning team by Senior Management.• Established and maintained relationships with vendors regarding purchase orders and with stores for merchandise opportunities/customer requests.

Planned and forecasted sales, inventory, and purchased product at the style level to maximize sales and achieve turn goals while maintaining an open to buy. Generated size curves by style using appropriate applications and product knowledge to formulate prepacks based on size selling trend.• Promoted to $100 million Men’s Thom McAn department- the largest in the company at that time.• Identified significant growth opportunities and presented strategy to all levels of management.• Partnered with Buyer to create departmental and advertising strategies while achieving profitability goals.• Selected by Senior Management as the Advertising Coordinator and made recommendations on advertising strategies while communicating information to the merchandising group.

Performed application testing, including writing test scripts to validate calculations and functionality of a core business system. Translated end-user needs into system requirements and evaluated existing applications to create gap analysis. • Key project manager role in designing and implementing a centralized distribution system.• Trained 50+ end users on the processes for understanding and utilizing the new business application based on their individual needs and contributed to training documentation including best practices and use-case scenarios.

Analyzed individual store trends, prepared and communicated trend reports to upper-level management and made recommendations to individual merchandising groups. Liaison between the stores and the merchandising group on high level communications.• Successfully coordinated the opening of 60 new stores ensuring the appropriate assortment and inventory levels.• Developed a training manual on an existing business system for current and future users.

Managed and monitored the correct store inventory by item, class, and brand to meet sales turn and gross margin goals. • Utilized various reporting systems to provide analyses on current sales trend and made recommendations to team on distribution strategies.