Kendall Willis Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

Director

New York, NY, US

• Responsible for development and implementation of extreme growth strategy and company focus that is Plus Size Active. Achieved 5X growth in 3 years by launching Plus Size assortments with new vendors and rollied out.
• Developed and executed roll out strategy to increase the Plus Active store count from 77 to 500
• Identified assortment whitespace and successfully launched Plus Size assortments with Columbia and Champion
• Collaborated with internal Macys teams to provide Market Share and Consumer Insight analytics to influence vendor community as Market Share leaders within the Plus Size market.Preseason
• Built season and annual sales targets by channel effectively maximizing opportunity and guaranteeing market share growth
• Supported Financial Planning counterparts in building achievable plan metrics (Sales, markdowns, margin, average stock, turn, etc.)

New York, NY, US

• Executed top line growth strategy and financial growth of the Plus Size Active brands within the RTW division at Macys. Mainly responsible for planning management of Ideology Plus, Nike Plus, and Calvin Klein.
• Developed pre market analysis using historical data to optimize business KPI’s at the channel, climate and locational level
• Supported Associate Buyer at market to effective determine the best product assortments to drive sales, margin and turn. Provided Buyer with market “shopping list” based on financial targets.
• Identified and grew future assortment core, maximizing health of the businessInseason:
• Allocated and adjusted assortments at the channel and locational level based on trend and regional opportunities
• Analyzed and recaped in-season product performance on a weekly, monthly and seasonal basis.

New York, NY, US

• Supported Buying & Planning organization in providing various reporting in relation to the Macys website. Built & managed various reporting tools that are still in use today.
• Collaborated with Macys IT Teams to build company wide report called the On Hand Live Report, an error report designed to identify and track merchandise that is booked into Macys warehouses but for various reasons not.
• Partnered with Customer Service, Warehouse Logistics teams, and Macys IT to create communication portal to report inventory gaps and inaccuracies.
• Collaborated with Buying and Planning merchants to resolve and prevent inventory issues preventing products from being available on the life site.
• Built reporting to manage price discrepancies between live site and internal systems.
• Built reporting to identify products with incorrect or misleading product classifications

New York, NY, US

• Supported Buying & Planning organization in executing, reporting and tracking all customer purchases placed via backorder or futures purchase, ensuring all purchases were fulfilled within company standard
• Created backorder reports and delivered to merchant community on a weekly basis
• Collaborated with merchant teams to resolve “aged” backorders and V2C purchases
• Ran database queries to send batched customer reservation emails for discontinued products
• Minimized customer cancellations by developing preventive methods to reduce stock outages

Paris, FR

• Conducted research for major art project
• Interfaced with artisans for special presentations of works
• Attended various meetings with potential partners
• Coordinated listing of brands on social networking sites

New York, NY, US

• Assisted with bookkeeping and filing
• Organized Excel spreadsheets for property records
• Mailing and Post Office delivery

New York, NY, US

• Assisted with organizing and purging files for off- site storage
• Assisted with payroll distribution and related filing
• Created Excel spreadsheets for organization of archives