Monte Duncan Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca

KEY CONTRIBUTIONS:• Oversee design team and collaborate with all functions to ensure that product is balanced across categories, priced competitively, and in line with current industry trends.• Monitor factory operations, including quality, fit, and production.

Los Angeles, Ca

KEY CONTRIBUTIONS:• Provide expert consultation to fashion executives across a variety of brands.• Define target markets, formulate pricing strategies, and promote products to major retailers.• Optimize resources and perform cost/benefit analyses to grow business and achieve success.

Los Angeles, Ca

KEY CONTRIBUTIONS:• Doubled Nordstrom business while adding Bloomingdale’s and Neiman Marcus accounts.• Boosted sales and profitability by managing/strategizing each account based on location and profile. • Improved product delivery; adjusted inventory levels so clients could immediately purchase shoes featured in shows.

Florida, New York, Washington Dc, Texas, Washington, Northern California

KEY CONTRIBUTIONS:National Financial Planner, Modern Shoes, Seattle, WA (2009-2011):• Built replenishment system capable of effectively responding to two-week trends by implementing a moving model based solely on recent performance. System inspired Nordstrom’s current replenishment model.Shoe Buyer, Miami, FL (2005-2009):• Created fashion-forward assortments to turn around underperforming stores.Doubled sales, boosted profits, and exceeded product turn goals in just one year.Market Lead Buyer, Paramus, NJ (1995-2005):• Achieved double-digit increases and substantial profitability/turn growth, far surpassing performance of other regions. Nordstrom later duplicated processes across the nation.• Drove business resurgence by adding Sam Edelman, Michael Kors, and Vince Camuto brands to assortments.Moderate Category Merchandise Manager, Washington, D.C. (1991-1995):• Maximized sales, inventory turns, and profit margins by sharing best practices and capitalizing on opportunities to optimize sales and profitability.Merchandise Manager, San Francisco Bay (1990-1991):• Improved coaching/management skills within the division through by implementing training programs for assistants and buyers.• Boosted sales and profits by lowering markdowns and increasing inventory turns.Achieved early career success at Nordstrom as a key player in opening and remodeling 15 stores. Secured the highest sales increases, turn ratios, and gross margins ever seen by a shoe buyer in the company's history, resulting in the Rack's position as an extremely profitable venture with 200+ locations.Frequently promoted into more senior-level roles after initially being hired as Assistant Manager at the organization's Salt Lake City, Utah location, and then as Lead Buyer at the Anchorage, AK store. Propelled the store's rank to #1 in women's shoe sales per square foot.