• Comprehensively manage all 360 inventory in all locations, including transacting receipts, adjustments, transfers; performing all reconciliations; managing count programs; and periodic reporting on inventory levels, health, and turns.• Determine and implement best-practices for inventory management. Continuously provide feedback to the Director of Operations on process improvement.• Provide regular inventory feedback and reporting to sales and other areas of the business as necessary, including OOS, at-risk inventory, discontinued stock levels, and seconds.• Manage the disposition, adjustment, and transfer of stock with regard to damages, seconds, and other unsaleable units at the warehouses. Communicate impactful movements as necessary. Liaise with sales to assign disposition of goods as appropriate.• Manage all rework projects systemically, including COGS adjustments, kitting, and customer floor-ready requirements should they require adjustments.• Monitor all inventory transactions systemically. Ensure reconciliations are performed on regular basis, and correct transactions retroactively as appropriate to ensure alignment with our warehouse inventory levels.• Manage the allocation of all inventory. Reserve inventory for large commitments wherever necessary and reallocate inventory where appropriate. Ensure that the appropriate communication channels are established to ensure inventory considerations are addressed for all relevant transactions.• Support in forecasting and purchasing meetings with all stakeholders. Prepare and provide overviews of the current stock position for all active items and provide inventory process recommendations as appropriate.• Review and understand customer compliance requirements in order to support customer needs from the inventory management perspective.• Support in warehouse management activities and ad hoc projects where assigned.

-Manage the purchasing and inventory management for a $100M retail chain with 43 locations operating in 18 states-Successfully negotiate rebate programs, development funds, and key promotional sponsorships with numerous vendors and distribution partners-Reduced company inventory exposure by over $5M in less than 3 months-Maintain and grow a successful team by encouraging mutual trust, respect and cooperation-Establish long-range objectives and specific strategies to achieve our company mission to maintain profitability and premier experience in store-Seek out opportunities to improve productivity, costs, and performance as related to cost, budget, and schedules of defined initiatives -Negotiated and created special sales incentives with specific brands and vendors for an average 35% increase in sell through-Integrate self into vendor and distributor operations, representing the interests of both the vendor and organization and demonstrate ability to matrix manage across diverse functional organizations-Forecast and execute purchases to average a 99% in stock rate for the top selling products

Lead a team responsible for the following:• Manage IT SOX Compliance and general controls with a 98-100% yearly success rate.• Create and manage accountability scorecards, dashboards, and metrics across the IT department.• Designed and operate IT fixed asset purchasing and tracking system.• Manage relationships with internal and external auditors, as well as other various IT vendors and distributors.• Google Administration: user and email account creation and distribution management.• Oversee new store set ups: telecom, prepping and shipping network equipment, arranging on site techs, ordering IT equipment.

Reporting• Collect data from multiple sources and compile into reports using Microsoft Excel• Prepare reports timely for weekly and monthly meetingsProject Tracking• Track multiple projects for the IT Department and follow up on completion of individual project assignments• Update collaboration documents to keep various departments up to date on the status of multiple IT projectsAccount Management• Create and manage user accounts in multiple IT related systems• Manage distribution listsPolicies & Procedures• Collaborate with IT team members to create policies and procedures documentation• Create and Compile IT Training and Reference Documentation