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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.