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Town Of Mount-Royal, Qc, Ca

Head of Stores, Store Operations, Allocation, Visual, Merchandise System transformation, and store facing new technology implementation. 300+ stores and 4500 employees in a fast growing company, in multiple countries.

Town Of Mount-Royal, Qc, Ca

Newly created role to consolidate Stores and the retail buying and allocation strategies. Develop processes to streamline communicate of business objectives to stores, and turn the field into a far more commercial operation. Created a metric based operation - improving sales, margin, and dramatically reducing in store employee turnover. Implementing overall corporate Merchandising Planning, Buying, Assortmenting and Allocation systems. While also improving business processes, and strategies along the way.

Town Of Mount-Royal, Qc, Ca

300 store Can & US Women’s multi brand apparel. (Garage/Dynamite) $700M. Implement company wide system integration of financial planning, item planning, store planning, allocation, and assortment plans. Train and develop merchants, planning, allocation, store planning teams to be best in class, and ready for total system change. Consult, and provide support, across the business on all aspects of improved metrics, processes, and implementation to improve sales, margin, and productivity. Spearhead change management techniques across the business. Lead training groups, present updates on system & process developments, and coordinate small group focus groups across the business.

Villeneuve D'Ascq, Fr

Member of Executive Leadco of Pimkie, and part of Leadco of the other 5 apparel brands in Fashion Cube.Develop, create and manage a Merchandise Planning, Allocation and Store Segmentation teams as new elements of Pimkie. Implement a full set of industry standard metrics and business processes.Revamp entire buying/planning process and strategy. Emphasis on Planning sales and assortment from the beginning and managing stocks sharply to those plans. Extreme focus on speed to market and reactibility. Complete IT system overall eliminating Excel as system of record and shifting to more dynamic AI focused tools to lead the MP & A functions, as well as create a more robust assortment planning process and execution.

Responsible for 3800 stores around the world and $1.6B in sales. Lead all elements of Planning and Allocation for the Under 12 Product line , as well as coordinating other product categories at the highest company levels. Acting as a de facto SVP for all P&A for the Global Brand. Lead and supervise 2 distribution centers - one UK and one Chicago based. Partner with Vendor base at logistics and global shipping of both goods in and goods out to stores. Logistics team supports the flow of goods by managing all relevant Customs and Trade laws and regulations. Establishing Global 5 year Supply Chain Strategy to better improve overall flow of product balanced again JIT practices at buy placement timing.

Hoffman Estates, Il, Us

Responsible for all elements of Financial Planning for Accessories and Cosmetics. In addition, have total Claires North America Allocation responsibilities. Coordinate with DC, Logistics, and Visual departments at processing receipts, and determining presentation standards across a 1500 store chain. Current overall team size is 17 associates from Director level to Allocator level. Team Leader for the Katy Perry PRISM Collection as well. Dotted line reporting to CEO at running a global cross functional team of Merchandising, Planning, Marketing, Design, Visual, Logistics, Legal, and working with multiple outside vendors and partners. All cross funtional teams dotted line report to me in the execution of this merchandise initiative. Work with the Artist and her management teams to create the best overall outcome for both parties.

Hoffman Estates, Il, Us

Responsible for all aspects of OTB, sales, markdowns and stock levels for 1500 store chain across all Accessories and Cosmetics Categories. Partner with Merchandising, Visual, Real Estate, Marketing, Stores, Design, IT and Finance teams daily to drive all elements of overall sales and margin performance. Aided in launching China stores and establishing a successful brand expansion into a new country, including assortment editing, logistics, and margin analysis to ensure a profitable launch. Work with EU, and Icing Brand teams to understand all elements of sales, and margin successes across all company brand platforms to help maximize total company success. Developed new planning processes and calendars to allow better overall performance with the Planning and Merchandising Organization. Coordinate with Real Estate teams to define space and capacity requirements for new store designs to ensure maximum performance for new design layout. Work with CEO and President on a regular basis. Manage. Team of 8 planners, along with indirectly managing a team of 17 Merchants, and 4 Allocators.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Head up all inventory related areas for a leading Direct Selling, Catalog based company. Create all assortment plans, OTB, delivery management, field inventory communiqués, and topside business planning. Forecast receipts/inventory usage for Operations to determine DC capacities and needs. Work with Sourcing partners to determine vendor capacity and by item production needs. Work with all executive team members at strategizing overall company direction from a product standpoint. What product will be promotional every month to what product will be featured in marketing documents. Partner with field staff to discuss inventory timing and any possible risks. Creating a company planning system with outside consultants. Working to instill a specialty retail mentality into the planning process. Taking old excel tools and improving performance, as well as, adding new improved metrics and ways of looking at the business. Supervise Consumer Mix area to better understand business segment shopping patterns and tie them into our financial plans. Ensure that our margin and business strategies make sense by product/merchandise segment. Coordinate with Finance area to create merchandise P&L and ensure company is hitting financial targets. Update forecast and plans on a monthly basis, and as needed to create scenarios to better understand company performance. Report on and give best solutions to improve company performance.