As a buyer for sports licensed merchandise at Bed Bath and Beyond my role was to create a first in class differentiated assortment that focused on the strengths of the company. In my 3 years in the role we transformed the department into an award winning market leader. In my final year in the position I created a fan shop that was trademarked as Fan Quarters. Bringing together the sports licencors, marketing, e-commerce, planning, and visual teams to complete a state of the art shopping experience for the fan.To gain awareness we partnered with ESPN fantasy sports analyst Matthew Berry on his Fantasy Football draft Kit line. We received great exposure on the Fantasy Focus podcast and via social media on his Instagram and Twitter.In 2016 we were awarded the 2016 Retailer of the year at the NFL Summit. This stemmed from driving the NFL initiative of Homegating (catering to the at home fan watching experience) and building our web business from 5-10M in one year. The growth on the web was attributed to a combined effort of vendor sku onboarding (over 20,000 SKUs), funding promotions, speed to market and the creation of an assortment extension book for all stores containing additional higher priced NFL merchandise for all 32 NFL teams not available in store.

-Created relationships with all the major leagues: NFL, NCAA, MLB, NBA, NHL, and MLS.-Negotiate marketing strategies and exit funding with the vendors to help the bottom line of the department.

-Improvisational strategic thinking -Working allocations/projections around stores doing their inventory or Chinese New Year. -Driving sales during key time frames of Back to College and Christmas. -Building close relationships with brands such as: Croscill, Focus, Ellery, CHF, and Revman. Monitoring stock position, creating Spring and Fall strategies, and making sure shipments were ready on time.-Successfully comping a double digit business in mirrors by improving over 10+% the following season. -Adding newness (travel size simplehuman mirror) to the assortment, projecting/forecasting more accurately to optimize performance.-Strengthened Fall/Christmas sales through timely allocation, excel tracking to evaluate opportunity, and additional sections providing newness to the consumer.-Forecast Accuracy -Staying above 80% accuracy in Bath Ensembles, Shower Curtains, and in the past Bath Hardware/Shower.

In charge of running two departments in planning, Rugs and Bath Accessories, that did $50 million in annual business. Controlled the Open-To-Buy at weekly meetings that lead to sales, margin, and turn improvements of 10-15%. Rolled out OXO accessories and Simple Human fixtures to great success at Macy’s that lead to a roll out from 100 stores to 600 stored within one year. Brought innovative ideas to Macy’s like the exclusive memory foam rug Lacoste program. Constant communication with the stores and timely execution to drive back to college and holiday lead to tremendous year over year growth of 25%.

• Responsible to enhance $150 million in business regionally and at the store level for Furniture, Ceramics and Holiday products by analyzing current trend, history, and like businesses to generate better sales plans, markdown performance and growth. • Led hindsight meetings to prepare strategies for future merchandising events such as: Holiday Gift, Summer Living, and Mother’s Day.• Developed store plans and evaluated testing procedures being conducted to improve the overall businesses in lamps and pallet planters.• Created relationships with the merchant team to evaluate categorical performance and recommended opportunities and risks to their future merchandise sales penetrations. • Placed in the leadership role of the Home Event Team and created the excel template utilized for the entire division.• A member of the Store Opportunity Alert Task Force. Meeting multiple times a month to recap store results in an effort to increase profitability in stores that have been performing at extreme levels. • Created bottom up reports that were effective in finding upside potential of $500,000.• Effectively recommended regional receipt changes that have been standardized across all holiday classes.• Have been put in a role as a mentor and seen the employee get promoted under my direction

-Analysis of multiple diverse businesses such as: Young Men's, Juniors, Swimwear, Outerwear, and Activewear and reported the sales recommendations with the Merchandise Control and Buying teams.-Held a quarterly business meeting with the director and manager to provide regional strategies for the future of businesses that will impact the top line, and to recap the best performing products.-Helped create a standardized strategy sheet called the Congruency Grid that provides a comprehensive visual presentation of similar products and their receipt flow by region for the entire season. -Ran the daily sales and weekly sales reports for the entire division leading to better business decisions to increase or decrease sales volume based on product performance.

-Learned how to successfully run a business from the aspects of customer service to creating profits for the store location assigned.-Enhanced my social skills by being in constant communication with potential customers, car dealerships mechanics, and insurance companies.-Had the same freedom as full time salesman to create my own rental car fee and provide additional insurance.