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Leveraging 20+ years in Executive leadership positions for multiple omni-channel specialty retailers to help clients succeed. Katie has implemented Allocation and Planning systems as both a client and consultant, focused on building processes and tools that are easily adopted by organizations to deliver results. Katie consistently builds motivated collaborative teams ,across multiple functions to deliver results while enjoying the process. Katie’s early experience in consulting and further experience in systems implementations as a client led her to be a valued resource on projects both in and out of her scope of responsibility. She has helped create requirements and design process and team structure for projects focused on reporting, pricing, assortment and space planning as well as her core functions of inventory management, size buying and demand forecasting. Category experience includes apparel, accessories, footwear, and beauty.

United States

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New York, United States

- Lead team of 15 responsible for Inventory Management across ~1000 stores including US Retail, Canadian Retail and Canadian Ecommerce channels. Responsible for allocation of ~220M units, ~$600M cost annually - Develop topline inventory strategy and bottoms up style/color/store level inventory plans to support topline sales plans, maximizing gross margin and revenue - Apprise CEO of inventory positions, strategies and opportunities during weekly set store reviews - Business lead for JDA allocation implementation – develop process, functional and reporting requirements to support successful implementation and adoption - Support all inventory management projects on strategic pillar roadmap, enabling new capabilities for MP&A, Stores and Warehouse locations to support continued Ecommerce growth - Recommended to CEO addition of size 16 to US retail channel, added ~$30M revenue annually -Created roles, responsibilities and career path for Inventory Planning function during implementation of Quantum Retail ALR. Transitioned team from execution only to analysis driven business owners

New York, Ny

-Lead a team of 28 (4 direct reports) responsible for inventory strategy (initial delivery and replenishment), forecast at sku/store, size purchase for 265 stores across the United States, Canada, UK, Hong Kong and France.-Developed process and toolset for SAS Size and pack implementation. Managed change for the organization from "like style" based sizing, to attribute led, algorithm driven size and pack optimization. Gained cross-functional support for the change across the organization-Created and implemented an ad hoc process for sharing inventory across channels- Responsible for International store openings – inventory flow and decisions, ensuring stores open with required inventory in ideal quantities on time- Drive inventory decisions in pre-season planning and Open To Buy for both Retail and Direct channel- Supported development of “omni-channel” planning/selling. Review reporting requirements, recommend approach for inventory management, PO splits, size purchase

- Manage team of 11 reports (4 direct reports) responsible for inventory strategy (initial delivery and replenishment), forecast at sku/store, size purchase for 223 stores across the United States and Canada- Responsible for inventory flow inputs to Open to Buy process, determining appropriate receipt flow to stores to hit or exceed forecasted sales, recommending early goods flow to stores, changes in assortment strategy to support Financial plan- Developed Assortment Level review process and strategy to assess plan at store level prior to purchase of goods – implemented across all retail divisions as part of pre-season planning and Open to Buy process – used in lieu of Assortment planning system- Support implementation of new Forecasting/Allocation system, process design, user adoption, solution improvement- Business lead for implementation of Size/Pack Optimization solution – responsible for developing process, determining all use cases, leading implementation, training team, user adoption

- Managed team of 5 direct reports – promoted entire team within 3 year tenure- Directly responsible for size purchase, forecasted sales at store/sku, store margin- Developed process and toolset to recommend style/color choice targets by Assortment level to Merchandising to increase profitability - Recommended to Merchandising/Planningo Addition of smaller sizes to Jackets and Pants based on store selling data – saw 3-8% incremental saleso Expanding Suiting assortment to additional stores, currently seeing significant sales increase based on additional store counto Increased presentation strength across chain in Shirting, while improving margin and sell-thru by reducing assortment, but increasing depth of purchase- Work with Visual Merchandising, Store Ops, Warehouse, Production, Merchandising, Planning on inventory for floorsets, providing each team with necessary information, supporting each function

- Manage Space Planning function (7 direct reports) for entire Bath and Body works chain (1500 stores, 4 store formats) - Implemented process improvements to better integrate with Merchants, Visual Merchandising, Planning and Allocation to ensure execution of Merchant vision from strategy to in-store execution - Report on Fixture/Cabinet Sales, Margin and Inventory productivity – provide recommendations for more effective use of space and inventory – tailored store shelving capacity to customer segment for better inventory profitability- Key member of Holiday Execution team - Provided team understanding of process and root causes for execution issues. Implemented a check of over 5 million sku/store combinations for accuracy, completed in a one week period

- Defined process and supported benefit case refinement (~$54 million benefit for BBW in year one) for new Space Planning capabilities to be implemented in all Limited Brands companies- Created a store segmentation and assortment clustering methodology to develop and execute tailored assortments in Victoria’s Secret and Bath and Body works stores

Solution Architect/Forecasting Subject Matter Expert – Best Buy - July 2004 – Feb 2005- Developed system and business process solutions for implementation across Planning and Allocation project teams - Key member of Forecasting Center of Excellence tasked with developing business process, org structure and reports to support forecasting functionSolution Architect/Implementation Manager – Toys ‘R Us - April 2002-June 2004- Accountable for project management and resource supervision for all aspects of the Retek Demand Forecasting Implementation (3500 day effort, 8 resources). Scope included process design, organization design, system design, detail design, build & test, product testing, conversion and successful implementation - Designed and implemented business processes to support new Forecasting Function within the Toys ‘R Us organizationFunctional Architect - WHSmith (UK) - October 2001-March 2002- Developed business processes, training and development to support new Forecasting Function- Developed and executed test plans for Retek Demand Forecasting softwareTechnical Consultant – Retek, Inc. - April 2001- October 2001- Developed and delivered end user training for the Retek Predictive Applications Product Suite

B.S., Engineering Mechanical

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Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering