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Palm Springs, California, United States

Concord, California, United States

San Francisco, Ca

- Led store planning and allocations for the Sweet & Savory Food departments that generated annual sales of $48 million.- Managed and controlled store inventory levels and worked closely with the Merchandise Planning team to achieve department sales, inventory, margin, and turn objectives.- Closely partnered with my planning and buying cross functional teams to recommend promotional activity based on store inventory levels and sales trends.- Created a Seasonal SKU Lost Sales template to measure any sales losses & overstocks on seasonal SKUs to help create strategies with planning and distribution to improve the allocation process for future holiday and seasonal SKUs.- Managed the visual floor set process for the distribution and cross-functional teams to track in-stock percentages on new and current SKUs and provide strategies to ensure a successful floor set launch.- Formed an action plan and executed a packaging transition with the sauces class in the Savory Food department to provide a seamless transition with the stores and minimize any potential lost sales which helped gain a +9% comp in Q3 2015.- Received recognition awards in Q4 2014 and Q4 2015 for successfully executing the allocation strategy for holiday confections.- Reported directly to the Director of Distribution Planning.

San Francisco, Ca

- Managed store inventory levels and allocations to achieve sales, inventory, margin, and turn objectives for both the Kitchen Electrics and Cutlery departments.- Reviewed SKU level distribution strategies across store tiers with my cross functional partners prior to allocating new SKUs.- Worked within each visual floor set to ensure necessary in-stock and presentation quantities by tier group and store location.- Set up new SKUs and allocated initial orders and replenishment quantities to stores.- Worked closely with the Distribution Center, Inventory Planning, Merchandising, and the field to communicate on-time and late deliveries.- Analyzed stock to sales and adjusted store parameters to increase or decrease product flow.- Created and updated store groups to support distribution strategy.

San Francisco, Ca

- Projected both pre-season and in-season sales and inventory needs for the catalog/ecommerce channel.- Successfully managed several new launches with contributed to strong year end results in Electrics (Vitamix in 2010), Cookware (Staub in 2009 and All-Clad D5 in 2010).- Resolved shipping issues between cross-functional partners, vendors, the DC, and the transportation department, effectively conveying the needs of all parties to obtain favorable results.- Provided vendors with sales recap information vs LY and plan on a weekly and monthly basis including explanations behind the results.

New York City, Ny

- Managed the inventory & sales planning process for men's pants, shorts, & swim for the Direct to Customer division (Catalog & E-Commerce).- Analyzed and revised current season business each week based on actual and projected straight-line demand, paginated space per edition, and tracked internet performance by style.- Spread budgeted department dollars across class/subclass/style and applied color & size penetration percentages at the style and SKU level.- Worked closely with retail counterpart to compare sales performance and trends between the retail and direct divisions and transfer merchandise between channels as necessary.- Supervised and trained Inventory Control Analyst.- Completed 2005 with $27 million in gross demand which was 36% of the total men's business and 9% of the total direct business.-

New York City, Ny

- Main focus of position was purchase order management, order tracking, and department reporting.- Wrote, edited, tracked, and closed all purchase orders for the Footwear & Accessories department. - Worked with the sourcing teams to rectify any quality control issues with deliveries and negotiated discounts with factories and vendors for late orders.- Reviewed backorder reports and worked with the distribution center to help fulfill backorders as flow orders arrived into the DC.- Reviewed catalog proofs for presentation, accuracy, pagination, and layout. Made recommendations to the merchandise planner to increase or reduce order sizes based on quality of catalog marketing.- Transferred inventory between the retail and mail-order channels.- Assisted the merchandise planner with special projects.

New York City, Ny

Worked in the JCrew store in Soho, NY prior to transitioning into JCrew's corporate office as part of the catalog/ecom inventory planning team.

New York City, Ny

Worked as an Assistant Manager in two Banana Republic stores in the Soho section of New York City. I was a member of the grand opening team of the Men's store in Soho when my original store converted into a Women's only store. Primary focus was on customer service & sales as well as store operations.

New York City, Ny

I worked in 3 stores over 2 years within the Upper East Side district with annual volumes ranging between $3.2m to $10.4m. My primary focus was on customer service and sales as well as sales team development.

Jefferson Valley, Ny And Nanuet, Ny

Managed the Domestics Department (Bedding and Bath Linens) in two locations. Responsible for providing superior customer service while maintaining department visual and stock level standards. Managed a customer service staff of 5 employees.

Los Angeles, Ca

Worked with customers at the branch level to open new accounts, apply for car and personal loans, as well as help resolve customer inquiries and questions.

Certification, Medical/Clinical Assistant

Bachelors Degree, Liberal Arts & Economics

Activities and Societies: Volunteered at the UConn Student Federal Credit Union (1985-1988) and held positions as a teller and teller.