Ricci Shatto Email & Phone Number

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, United States

Senior Inventory Manager (2013 – current, multiple retitles and restructures)Responsible for planning and buying objectives and functions, strategic development and management of the Merchandise Planning team for an apparel business as part of a rapidly growing retail organization.• Develop and execute seasonal sales and inventory plans at all product levels.• Manage buys to support target inventory metrics and support company growth strategy. • Identify and manage risks and opportunities to forecasts and buys, reacting to both trend and evolving growth strategies.• Manage supply chain challenges, developing and executing proactive strategies and an expediting strategy.• Develop, mentor and coach a planning team of up to six direct reports and a broader team of fifteen or more.Inventory Manager (2011 – 2012)Responsible for planning, forecasting and buying product for assigned categories.

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, United States

Responsible for planning, forecasting and buying product for assigned categories.

Dodgeville, Wisconsin, United States

Responsible for financial planning, strategic growth and management of Inventory Planning team for Kid’s and Men’s direct apparel businesses as part of a $1.7 billion retail organization.• Developed and executed division sales and inventory plans and forecasts to support company financial and profitability objectives. • Analyzed and identified potential risks and opportunities to forecasts, orchestrated actions to mitigate and capitalize, delivered consistent sales and margin growth.• Managed division open to buy and receipt flow to maximize inventory effectiveness.• Developed and coached planning team of six, providing guidance on responsibilities and objectives.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Responsible for store sales and inventory plans from a total store to the sub-class level for over 1,200 stores in a $1.3 billion retail organization. Also responsible for development and management of Direct to Consumer business, strategic growth and the management of Location Planning team.• Analyzed trends and provided plan guidance to maximize sales and inventory opportunities to enable more effective assortment plans and inventory buys to support increased sales and inventory turn goals. • Developed and implemented strategies for strategically sharing the inventory to support new Home Delivery and .Com businesses, which resulted in over $12 million in HD sales.• Identified, developed and executed long-term goals, priorities and system needs for Location Planning, including a new, more effective structure for a system upgrade to better support variances in businesses and lead times. • Collaborated with Merchandise Planning and Allocation Director Team to develop and manage company and departmental focus initiatives and objectives, included personal management of the creation of a new merchandise hierarchy. • Developed and coached planning team of thirteen.

Charged with the creation, design and development of the Location Planning system, processes and department, a new function of Planning and Allocation. Completed initial design, testing and implementation of planning system, including creation of the training manual and initial training. Also responsible for store sales and inventory plans for assigned genders and stores, as well as the management of planning specialist team.• Developed and maintained store plans to drive accurate open to ship values.• Developed and executed store positioning plans to support buyer vision.• Collaborated with partners to identify and meet store inventory needs.• Developed specialist planning team of five.

• Provided inventory solutions to support new, closing and challenged stores.• Identified and addressed store inventory selling opportunities.

• Managed inventory objectives for the Houston and Denver markets.• Built new store inventories and redistributed closing store inventories.• Identified and addressed store inventory selling opportunities.

• Field experience gained in Ft. Collins/Loveland, CO market.• Regional Manager of the Year for 1997.