TJX - Buyer / Leadership Program• Managed $100M hard home business for 5 years, focusing on executing stats and transforming the department from 54.6 IMU to 55.4 IMU, successfully gaining 1 full point in gross profit and accelerating revenue by $15M• Completed multiple overseas trips yearly, which included working directly with factories to source and create product• Lead vision creation for the category including working with product development team to create trend boards and leveraging relationships with other TJX merchants to influence market position• Responsible for leading quarterly strategy meetings where cross-functional internal divisions collaborate to build category vision by analyzing sales data, competitive landscape, market trends, and create an actionable plan to be executed in the market• 5 years of experience managing $130M soft home business primarily in the NYC market, delivering a strong vision, consistent impactful negotiations; yielding robust growth profit & category growth, with 75% of business responsibility pertaining to managing the branded market• Developed a closeout market, influencing vendors to stock merchandise to consistently feed business needs and capitalize on current market trends to meet customer demand; 90% of product previously bought at 120-150 day lead times and decreased that to 65%, yielding an increase in top-line sales and positive gross profit growth by 2 points• Utilize strong presentation skills to deliver presentations concerning strategic visions to upper management quarterly, including CEO of TJX• Appointed a TJX University mentor and coach being deemed high potential at the corporate level for 13 years• Enrolled in the 1-year-long Emerging Leaders program where case studies are given on how to become a coach/leader to a future team

TJX - Merchandise Planning & Allocation• Responsible for training and developing a cross-functional team of 4 professionals, ensuring appropriate training for merchandise planning and allocation processes• Analyzed sales trends and demographics to determine where product performed best, executing detailed business analytics to advise merchants on how much to buy and forecast product trends for accurate allocations• Started as an analyst for 6 months, promoted to Sr Analyst for 1 year, then Associate Planner for 10 months, eventually spending 8 months as Planning Manager before being quickly promoted into buying• Completed the Planning and Allocation School of Excellence merchandising program consisting of 6 weeks of classroom-based training