• Oversee Allocations team on creating store retail strategies including initial allocations, replenishment and store redistribution.• Work cross-functionally with Merchants and Retail Operations providing the best line for the space in new doors.• Work with Finance team to establish and manage seasonal Open-To-Buy.• Revised planning tools and processes to make smarter and faster decisions.• Leading implementation of BI Tool to aide with reporting, buying and allocations.

• Managing seasonal buys and core replenishment across Ecom, Retail and Wholesale channels.• Working with company directors on tops-down and bottoms-up sales planning alignment to minimize missed sales opportunities and end-of-season liability.• Overseeing initial inventory investment and sales planning for new retail locations.• Partnering with Executive Team on liable inventory liquidation strategies that allow the highest margin and the least impact on future sales goals.

• Built Planning & Allocations Department for women’s contemporary brand averaging 30% year-over-year DTC revenue growth and 25% wholesale revenue growth.• Work extensively with company merchant to develop SKU and Buy Plans for six seasons yearly to hit sales goals and limit end-of-season liability to 20-25% of total buy.• Continuously monitor and move inventory between channels to maximize opportunity and margin.• Frequent strategizing with owners and department heads on maintaining merchandise relevance and inventory efficiency in the current retail climate. • Partner with Production and Finance to monitor cash flow based on various factories’ terms.

• Built Planning procedures and best practices for successful contemporary menswear start-up.• Collaborated with Executive and Finance Teams on fiscal sales budget in order to create and monitor total company Open-to-Buy.• Developed seasonal plans to formalize and strategize the design and merchandising process.• Established core product list and replenishment system for monitoring stock levels.• Manage allocations to retail stores, leveraging regional data to maximize revenue.• Work cross-functionally with marketing team to develop inventory and demand based marketing strategies.

• Improved planning department functionality through new process implementation and increased interdepartmental collaboration.• Oversaw total company inventory management by monitoring style movement and partnering with Merchandising teams to determine and execute product life cycles.• Forecasted monthly and seasonal OTB Plan.• Developed projections and inventory flow for key items/collections.• Managed replenishment planning team for core men’s and women’s styles to guarantee stock availability and identify build opportunities.• Company project manager for the implementation and execution of QlikView (Wholesale) and Skypad (Retail) data reporting systems entailing program modification and training for multiple departments.

• Manage sales, margin and inventory planning for the Men’s Global Regular and Off-Price business.• Execute pre-season investment strategies based on post-seasonal analysis and trend in various merchandise categories.• Establish and tracked sales targets for Men’s channels by account and category to meet total company budget goals.• Doubled Men’s styles productivity and increased sell-through from 70% to 90% (seasonally) by aligning sales channels which reduced excess inventory.

• Crafted and maintained replenishment stock model using sales trend to achieve 100% service levels at the size level.• Managed, created and analyzed all retail selling reporting for the company and communicated key findings to the Director of Planning with actionable opportunities.• Created and distributed weekly wholesale selling recaps in comparison to budget.

• Coordinated and manage freelance staff. • Managed relationships with high profile contributors.• Maintained editorial calendar.• Ghostwrote feature articles. • Scouted new contributors. • Responsible for searching for and maintaining trend appropriate content.

• Wrote numerous humorous bits for popular fashion/comedy show. • Generated interview questions for guests.• Participated in production meetings.