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Chapel Hill, NC, US

Cary, North Carolina, United States

Cary, North Carolina, United States

• Utilized 30 year retail career to provide expert advice for dozens of retail and consumer goods companies each year.
• Worked closely with Sales and Channels teams to serve as retail expert, provide sales support, and manage pre-sales activities.
• Played customer advisor, marketer, product manager, and technical enabler roles as needed.
• Provide ongoing expertise and product improvement in support of industry and software configurations.
• Co-lead a team of data, analytical, and planning practitioners to continuously shrink customer time to value and serve as the enablement arm for trusted SAS retail partners.
• Played a key contributor role in the successful launch of retail software-as-a-service offer.

Plano, Texas

• Co-led project that identified hundreds of millions of dollars aged inventory utilizing analytics CoE and open-source models. Developed actions plan to address with company leadership.
• Developed and deployed executive and business unit dashboards, ad hoc, and push reporting.
• Provided analytics and insights impacting sales, gross profit, and inventory management.
• Leveraged predictive capabilities in markdown optimization and long-range weather forecasts.
• Directed a global analytical team of 16 associates and collaborated with IT and Business partners.

Plano, TX

• Managed $1.2B clearance business and $4B in permanent markdowns, concentrating on optimization selling margin and sell through via SAS Markdown Optimization.
• Leveraged closing stores to transfer millions of units of seasonal and aged inventory from go-forward stores.
• Centralized the work of 60+ merchandise planners to a team of 5 markdown planners.
• Further streamlined work by migrating to a global team model, reducing SG&A and improving productivity.

Plano, Texas, United States

• Directed the merchandise financial planning, forecasting and allocation for over $500M in annual sales.
• Supported four buying teams and two divisional merchandise managers.
• Led financial and operational analysis of several, new food & beverage business opportunities.
• Managed a team of twelve planning managers and business analysts (allocators).

Plano, Texas, United States

• Led implementation, training and change management for SAS Size & Pack Optimization, SAS Markdown Optimization, and updates to promo pricing + event management system updates.
• Responsible for user support and enhancements for several Merchandising and Plaining & Allocation applications.
• Directed team of 12 associates ranging from Associate Director to Project Manager.

Plano, Texas, United States

• Led major supply chain visibility project spanning international buying offices, direct procurement suppliers, national brands, and transportation management.
• Directed revamp of supplier portal and supplier scorecard as an earlier adopter of EDI and OTIF standards; created a suppler panel to continuously seek feedback from national brands.
• Directed implementation of jcp.com visibility store inventory and PIM initiative to improve navigation jcp.com.
• Responsible for user/supplier support and user enhancements for purchase order application.
• Led team of Project Mangers.

Plano, Texas, United States

• Drove key company strategies through merchandise divisions through process refinement, development of big rules, system automation, reporting, tracking and continuous follow-up.
• Coordinated financial and strategy documents which supported semi-annual business reviews.
• Improved consistency within allocation team by focusing and challenging in-stock levels.

Plano, Texas, United States

• Managed up to $3.2B in annual revenue supporting Men's and Children's merchandise divisions
• Established check points and safeguards to ensure achievement of financial targets.
• Drove planning and forecasting activities; co-led weekly forecast and monthly financial reviews.
• Prepared GMM and Divisional Planning Director for monthly financial review with Senior Management.

Irving, Texas, United States

• Reported and enforced company open-to-buy; responsible for planning and tracking company/region/district/ store and DC inventory in highly manual, partially decentralized environment.
• Created store level order budgets for 630 locations to create a new inventory control.
• Served as business owner of store perpetual inventory initiative with goal of enabling inventory visibility for store level inventory via Retex RMS.
• Primary business driver of Decision Support System and PO Management System.

Irving, Texas, United States

• Directed warehouse replenishment of $400+ million at cost of arts and crafts products annually for 16,000 skus across four distribution centers
• Improved fill rates for fulfillment of 630 stores via E3 TRIM replenishment system.
• Developed supplier scorecard as well as improved quality of supplier projections.
• Managed staff of 29 managers, replenishment analysts, and data management members.

Brentwood, Tennessee, United States

• Established and implemented procurement best practices for Re-Buyers.
• Improved in stocks, inventory turn, merchandise receipt flow and Supplier performance.
• Planned / forecasted sales, margin, receipts and inventory class/weekly level via Author planning system.

Brentwood, Tennessee, United States

• Responsible for assortment planning, vendor management, ordering, replenishment, store layout, event and price planning, media planning/page layout, catalog page layout.
• Merchandise expertise: photography, wireless communication, electronic accessories.
• Led project to scope a potential electronics concept coined “Solution Center”; worked with many internal departments and met with external sources on store concept, artist renderings and cost benefit analysis.

Nashville Metropolitan Area

Past: District Training, Store Apparel Sales Manager

Bachelor Of Science - Bs

Associate'S Degree