Leads team of 10 employees, managing over 30,000 sku’s, $350M in annual purchases, from 13 different countries. Partners with Executive Management, Sales, Finance, and Supply Chain teams to drive company goals and initiatives. Supported revenue improvements from $40M to $400M over the past 7 years.~ Directs Inventory Planning Team: develops effective inventory strategies to meet customer needs and business expectations resulting in improvements in: turn (33% increase), service levels (5%), and reduced costs (2-3% average across all purchases). ~ Manages Customer Service Team – Provide first class customer service to 30 retail partners.Key Accomplishments:~ Created proprietary forecasting tool in 2022 resulting in forecast accuracy improvements from 55% to 73%, helping optimize the entire supply chain.~ Managed Supplier Bid Evaluation and Pricing Process from 2018 – 2021. Achieved goal of reducing total supply chain costs by 10% through rigorous evaluation and optimization all supply chain impacts: supplier costs, transportation expense, warehousing inputs, and purchase planning.~ Started pilot VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) program in 2023 resulting in 90% sales and 50% turn improvements for participants.~ Managed annual budgeting process and financial reporting from 2018-2021: P/L Statement, Cashflow Management, Budgeting, and Forecasting.~ Moved offices to Fort Worth, TX including hiring and training new staff in 2019.~ D365 ERP implementation in 2019.~ Partnered with Supply Chain team in transitioning warehouses in 2019.~ Hire, train, develop, and invest in the career growth of a diverse group of employees resulting in dozens of promotions to other positions throughout the organization.~ Engineered significant productivity improvements during same time sales tripled while maintaining key KPIs. Measured over 95% gains in productivity.

~ Brought onboard to build analytics team from the ground up. Team focused on developing innovative analytical solutions for improving category management, supply chain, customer management, and pricing strategies along with reinforcing accountability to performance goals. ~ Designed and implemented business intelligence tools supporting future revenue growth of the company. These tools include Sales and Gap reports, Item and Pricing Master, Fill Rate and Inventory recaps, Order Management Tools, PO Log, Vendor Setup and Supplier Contract Database, etc.~ Implemented new web-based application (Quickbase) for: consolidating and coordinating Midco Communications to Members, created transparency of Supplier Evaluation Projects and their timelines, and built a database for Member Forecasts.~ Reinforcing performance goals via: Monthly Financial Review meetings, Member Scorecards, and utilizing Quickbase tracking features to ensure Midco and Member engagement with Communication and Supplier Evaluation Projects. ~ Coordinated Supplier Bid Evaluation and Member Pricing process.

~ Utilized data visualization tools such as Oracle BI to generate compelling presentations of data insights. Designed and created numerous dashboards including Merchandise Performance, Ad Event Recap, In Stocks, and Retail Strategy Review.~ Provided daily and weekly financial performance reports for executives, senior leadership, and merchant division.~ Streamlined on-going reporting, converted ad-hoc analyses to standardized templates, eliminated unnecessary reports, and improved overall workflow. ~ Project Manager and IT Liaison: Met with management, sponsors, and project teams to review progress and resolve project issues. Managed contractors and internal resources to help ensure projects stayed on time and on budget.~ Built strong partnerships with cross-functional teams (IT, Ecom Business, Store Operations, Space Management, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Finance) to support strategy and business.~ Per executive request, completed an internal study how Gander Mountain utilized analytic and Business Intelligence tools. Interviewed business partners throughout organization to help identify significant opportunities for improvement. Recommended solutions included 1) greater utilization of BI tools to reinforce strategy, provide transparency, and create consistent conversations, 2) assign dedicated BI resources within organization to improve speed of delivery, and 3) invest in data warehousing. These recommendations were all approved and implemented.~ Administrator for SAS Financial System: coordinates annual financial plan updates with planning team, build and maintain financial reporting templates, work with IT on system enhancements.~ Proficiency in a wide variety of analytical and data mining tools: Microstrategy, Oracle BI, Essbase, SAS, and MS Access. Programming skills for SQL, and Visual Basic.~ Received multiple Quarterly and Monthly PEAK Performer Awards while in this role.

~ Newly created position reporting to executive team to help with analyzing store profitability and identifying opportunities around seasonality, remodels, and competitive impacts.~ Published Executive Decks outlining Actual vs. Budget and SWOT analysis for monthly store walk-throughs.~ Developed annual store budgets for all stores down to department / week level. ~ Supported projects and ad hoc reporting requests from all levels of leadership as assigned.

~ Planner for largest division at Gander Mountain (Shooting Sports - 33% of retail sales).~ Developed annual financial plans to maximize sales, margin, and turn.~ Forecasted sales and margin impacts of promotional activity, markdowns, and inventory strategies.~ Analyzed pricing & promotional results and provide recommendations to improve sales and margin.~ Worked with multiple levels of merchandise organization to develop and implement strategic goals.

~ Managed inventory and replenishment for 2 highly seasonal departments.~ One of only two inventory analysts to achieve sales, margin dollar and inventory turn goals at Gander Mountain from 2006 - 2008.~ Improved instocks and turnover through proper management of replenishment system.~ Managed open to buy, forecasted needs, created orders, worked with buyers, vendors, and stores to ensure proper inventory levels throughout the year.~ Supervisor for 2 Merchandise Specialists.~ Designated as a “Super User” at Gander Mountain during STREAM enterprise system upgrade project from 2007 -2008. This designation was given to key end users who demonstrate a high level of technical aptitude. Super Users were responsible for testing, quality assurance, training and mentoring of other employees on the different components of our merchandising systems.

~ Managed Video department inventory team with annual purchases as high as $650 million per year for 1300 retail stores.~ Managed open to buy and worked with buyers, vendors, and stores to ensure inventory was at optimal levels throughout all seasonal selling periods.~ Demonstrated consistent success as an Inventory Manager through continued improvement on key business measurables: in-stocks – increased from 89.9% to 94.2%, forecasting - 15% improvement, and inventory sell-though (12% increase on video new releases).~ Spearheaded initiative to reduce video expedited freight costs by 50% which resulted in a $2 million savings per year.~ Successful at developing numerous individuals by training, mentoring and providing them with the necessary tools and an environment in which to succeed. Many of them were promoted and have gone on to do the same.

~ Analyzed, optimized, designed, and built numerous inventory management systems and tools which utilized algorithms, planograms, and other attributes to automate daily inventory decisions and improve overall execution and efficiency.