Suzanne H. Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

$680M Area of responsibility included Bar III, Rachel by Rachel Roy, Guess, Free People, Ralph Denim & Supply, Kensie, Maison Jules, designer sportswear and premium denim. Responsible for sales, profitability, customer insight data analysis and team development. Team included four planners, three associate planners, one assistant planner, administrative assistant and supported by one inventory planner, two inventory associate planners and one inventory assistant planner. Promoted two planners, one assistant planner. One planner promoted to VP, Planning Manager.

New York, Ny, Us

$770M Area of responsibility included Petite and Women’s INC, Style & Co, Calvin Klein, Kors by Michael Kors, traditional and updated sportswear. Team included a VP Planning Manager, eight planners, four associate planners, four assistant planners and administrative assistant.

New York, Ny, Us

$980M Area of responsibility included INC, Impulse, Calvin Klein, Kors by Michael Kors and updated sportswear. Responsible for sales, profitability, new assortment structure and team development. Team includes a VP Planning Manager, eight planners, four associate planners, four assistant planners, one inventory planner, administrative assistant and support by three associate inventory planners. Eight team members were remote in San Francisco.

New York, Ny, Us

$393M Area of responsibility included Women's RTW areas of Juniors and Swim. Juniors consisted of American Rag (Private Label), related sportswear, surf and action sports clothing, casual item tops, casual item bottoms and dresses. Responsible for sales, profitability, assortment building, allocations, store presentations and team development. Team included six planners, three associates planners and two assistant planners. Successfully promoted one planner to manager, one associate planner to planner, one assistant planner to assistant buyer and one assistant planner to associate planner.

New York, Ny, Us

$147M Area of responsibility included Missy, Petite and Womens sizes. Responsible for sales, profitability, assortment planning, classification structure and allocation. Supervise one assistant planner. Delivered annual sales plans each year in position.

New York, Ny, Us

$85M Area of responsibility over four years included item businesses in Jennifer Moore Fleece, Charter Club, and Style & Co denim; Neo Traditional businesses in Style & Co, Liz Claiborne, JNY, and Lauren; Fashion business in INC, and setup Polo Jeans, DNKY Jeans and City DKNY; and bridge businesses. Supervised an associate each year in 2001 thru 2003.

New York, Ny, Us

$24M Area of responsibility included Missy Dockers, Style & Co and Soft Dressing. Responsible for sales, profitability, brand launch (Dockers), basic item planning and allocation. Introduced and developed Dockers Missy pat shops producing $1.9M basic denim program.

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Expense Analyst (3/97 - 6/98)Develop analysis for examining expense variances and determining reduction strategies. Prepared summaries and communicated to Senior Vice President. Successfully improved regression analysis to project more realistic staffing in stores during peak periodsSales Analyst (11/96 - 2/97)Planned total May Company Daily Sales, Month and Seasonal targets distributed and followed by all company planning divisions. Prepared “flash predications” of sales information for immediate analysis by Senior Vice President. Developed and maintained publication of sales package for new acquisitions.

New York, Ny, Us

Prepared seasonal merchandise plans for Sportswear, Shoes and Intimate Apparel with annual sales volume of $370 Million. Developed monthly flow of sales, average stocks and receipts and established plans for markdowns, markups, shortage at a departmental and total company level in which all merchants were reviewed. Assisted buyers by building assortment plans by department and resolving any outstanding planning issues related to markup, receipt flow and gross margin. Enhanced the planning review process by formulating parameters as a basis for call-outs and utilizing parameters to recognize potential opportunities for plan changes.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Area Sales Manager (10/94 - 5/95)Responsibility included Intimate Apparel, Women's Sportswear and Electronics for #1 volume store. Achieved excellent ratings for assignments in sales, sales management through merchandising quality, sales pricing, customer service quality and management of 4 department managers. Achieved a total turnaround of the Women’s Sportswear Department, building sales volume from 52nd in the company to 3rd largest in the company within 2 seasons.Executive Trainee (6/94 – 10/94)Analyzed key item trends, profitability, flow of merchandise space availability in hosiery. Researched and assessed stock analysis in key replenishment hosiery vendors. Analyzed daily sales and inventories to plan promotions and make adjustments.

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