John Ensminger Email & Phone Number

Portland, OR, US

Portland, Oregon & Amsterdam, Netherlands

• Everest Consulting is a strategy management consulting company, focused on creating meaningful results through breakthrough strategic thinking with “real world” implementable solutions.With over 25+ years of.
• Led the marketplace transformation strategy for a $500M women’s apparel brand. Identified target consumers and competitive white space to build key store, Ecommerce, and wholesale strategies.
• Spearheaded the licensing strategy for a leading US outdoor brand into new categories and distribution channels. Identified and prioritized licensing categories and partners, negotiated contracts and managed the.
• Developed and launched a new retail concept for Europe's largest outdoor brand. Built the strategic rationale and business plan and managed cross functional teams to identify partners and create a proof of concept.
• Built comprehensive turnaround strategy for European division of US workwear brand. Identified key markets, industry verticals and distribution that aligned to its global brand position, elevated its distribution.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Led a senior leadership team of merchandising, planning, marketing and sales in developing Nike’s strategy to elevate the US market by creating new, more profitable business models and retail concepts for Nike’s.
• Created a new business model, in partnership with Nike’s largest customers, to increase sales, margin and inventory turns through a collaborative planning process and tighter integration in the product process

Led the transformation of Nike’s planning process, driving consistency across all business units and gaining alignment across Finance, Sales, DP/IM & Operations to a single operating plan. Oversaw the creation of a new department within Nike to reengineer, drive and monitor a new planning process to achieve greater execution excellence.

Responsible for Demand Planning, Inventory Management, Auto Replenishment and Team & Licensed Commercialization functions for Nike’s $1.3B US Apparel division. Managed a team of 100, responsible for maximizing $200M monthly inventory and driving a $150M replenishment business.

P&L responsibility for Nike’s $350M US Equipment (Accessories, Team Sports, Timing/Tech & Vision) businesses. Manage a team of 80 including merchandising, operations, sales, retail marketing, finance, strategy and HR. Led clean up of US Equipment business- increased revenue 5% in a declining market, raised gross margins 290 bps and reduced inventory 40%.

Responsible for the creation of Nike Inc.’s corporate strategy, support of the corporate strategic planning process and management of consulting projects for Nike’s senior executives. Led the creation and buy-in among senior executives of Nike Inc.’s 3 year Corporate Strategic Plan. Determined areas of greatest opportunity, framework and process to gain.

K2 Sports is a $600M global supplier of high performance sporting goods products with leading positions in winter sports, inline skates and alternative youth sports.Managed the global product creation for $250M of footwear/skate products and regional merchandising & sales for all K2 categories. Successfully led major turnaround of K2’s troubled Asian.

Corporate Decisions Inc., a privately-held, 100 person management consulting firm, focused on senior-level, growth strategies for Fortune 500 clients was bought by Mercer Management Consulting in 1997. Consulted in consumer, automotive, health care and chemical indsuturies

Taipei, Taiwan

Marketing manager for Taiwanese PC OEM manufacturer, responsible for building the business through distributors throughout Europe

San Francisco Bay Area

Bs, Exercise Physiology

Activities and Societies: IRONMAN triathlete Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity

Mba, Finance & Strategy