Keith Whaley Email & Phone Number

• Drives and leads the design, training and implementation of custom retail and direct to consumer specific functionality within multiple retailers’ suite of solutions which includes Financial Planning, Demand.
• Successfully re-designed, implemented and trained for a merchandise planning and allocation solution for three major hard and softline retailers in the same project.
• Successfully designed, implemented and trained for merchandise planning and allocations solution set for the soft and hard lines categories for a midwestern mid-market retailer.

Palm Beach County, Florida, United States

Drives and leads the design and development of retail, wholesale and direct to consumer specific functionality within the JustEnough suite of solutions which includes Merchandise Financial Planning, Assortment Planning, Clustering, Demand Profiling, Allocation, Forecasting and Inventory Optimization. Major focus areas and accomplishments: Rebuilt Standard.

Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area

Directed launch and development of retail planning process and tools for two brand launches associated with Thirty One Gifts. Successfully implemented OTB planning process while managing planners across the brands. Major areas of focus include: Merchandise Financial Planning Open to Buy Sales, Cost of Goods Sold, Receipts, Inventory TargetsAssortment.

Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area

Business lead for the team responsible for the design, development, testing and rollout of Just Enough merchandise planning software. Successful implementation was critical in supporting the company’s international growth. Improved the training program and calendar for merchandise planning. Improved business process and systems by implementing an iterative.

Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area

Responsible for managing 24 Grocery and General Merchandise categories for 120 Retail stores. Worked to achieve sales and profits budgets by managing inventories, creating and implementing merchandise sales programs, managing category pricing strategies and weekly ads. Responsible for total category sales exceeding $500M

Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area

Responsible for the management and execution of merchandise sales and inventory plans across 22 stores. Responsible for total sales exceeding $22M. Areas of focus include:Assortment Planning and MerchandisingAchieved region compliance executing corporate merchandising plans for all Grocery and HBC categoriesExecuted new item speed to shelf initiative in.