Kenny Moon Email & Phone Number

Ridgewood, Nj, Us

New York City Metropolitan Area

Lead a team which supports business profitability, process and testing. Implement processes and tools to better support planning and merchandising which has led to increased visibility into performance and effective business actions. • Implement a dynamic seasonal merchandise assortment tool in conjunction with the product life cycle and financial plans. This encompasses hindsight, test learnings and inventory investment at category and floorset levels to help identify opportunities of improvement and ways to maximize profitability and inventory turnover. • Optimize merchandise performance, profitability and product pricing tests using Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) with insights into market basket analysis to inform the business with customer shopping behavior to increase spend and units per transaction.• Create and manage daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting across all divisions in collaboration with key leaders to identify areas of financial opportunity and highlight key performance metrics. • Lead and train cross functional teams and senior management on major company initiatives such as markdown optimization tool, SKU depth and count optimization tools and product/price test process.

Mahwah, Ny

Drove planning strategies for all categories of Tops & Non Apparel businesses which represented 45% of total company. Partnered with General Management, Finance, Marketing, and other departments in setting and reaching financial objectives to enhance business growth. Owned annual planning process for OTB (product performance, sales, inventory, receipt, and margin goals), as well as top-line financial plan and monthly forecast processes to achieve company financial and merchandise objectives. Partnered with senior leaders on best practices and tools to further develop merchandise planning role within Dressbarn. • Partnered with VP of planning and VP of merchandising on monthly OTB process to ensure support of company financial goals; analyzed weekly sales trends to identify risks and opportunities, with focus on profitability and inventory turnover, in order to improve sales and profitability. • Drove sales and inventory strategy to grow Tops and Non Apparel business by partnering with merchandising on incremental investments as well as swapping out receipts from down trending categories. Maintained total stock investment and turn targets in line with demand forecast for brick & mortar and e-commerce channels.• Led planning organization with overhaul of planning system and reporting tools, to allow for improved visibility of category performance, improved profitability and inventory turnover by applying different forecasting models with in-house developed tools to generate accurate future demand.

Ensured rapid response to business trends and maximized inventory and profit through chase and cancel opportunities by working with planning, merchandising and multiple distribution channels. Supervised 6 team members, provided training, set goals, and ensured overall plans met financial objectives and supported product strategies.• Managed flow of product through the distribution center to ensure that allocations are in-store to meet sales demand, emphasizing peak demand times during the year, such as back to school periods.• Analyzed top line sales by store to review any trend based on weeks of supply in order to provide additional flow of goods to meet added demand and performing risk analysis to cap at risk stores from additional allocations. • Communicated weekly with the distribution center and store operations team, as well as IT to improve current store planning and allocation tools• Provided weekly store planning and allocation updates directly to the CEO and CFO

Drove planning strategies for knit tops and denim, which represented 40% of total company. Partnered with VP of merchandising, Marketing and other departments in setting and reaching financial objectives to improve profitability. Led the OTB process for knit tops and denim to improve product performance, sales, inventory, receipt, and margin.• Presented financial positioning and seasonal divisional strategies directly to senior management, including brand, category, and trend investments to highlight impact of inventory mix and outside market influences, and current business trends to indicate opportunities or risks for upcoming season.• Delivered increased revenue in 2007 of $3M over prior year, representing 25% of company growth. Strategies implemented included identifying trends, chasing inventory and reducing inventory at markdown.• Reduced inventory investment in denim during peak back-to-school period while showing growth in revenue by analyzing store by store denim demand and building denim wall presentation to ensure inventory supports forecast by store.

• Created and maintained tools to analyze business trends to assist cross functional teams and VP of planning to maximize profitability and minimize inventory liability.• Maintained weekly, monthly and quarterly reports for key business meetings, such as seasonal hindsights, monthly plan reviews and seasonal signoffs.• Incorporated MACROS to existing reports to automate key weekly reports for the company to provide more efficiency.

• Developed seasonal sales, margin and sell-thru plans to maximize clearance inventory turns and reducing mark out of stock positions.• Supported VP of Merchandise Planning to develop long range plans for the organization by analyzing historical trends and identifying optimal level of inventory needed to support this demand.• Developed, implemented and automated planning tools across all functions of business, including merchandise planning, store planning and allocations, which improved synergies across these functions.