Tim Ceci Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Paris, Île-De-France, Fr

✓ Managing Director with oversight of Goyard’s American presence, leading the US market to achieve highest levels of sales and service and fully embracing Goyard’s values of heritage, family, and excellence.✓ Founded in Paris in 1853, with roots that date back to 1792, Goyard’s rich history, unique monogram, and commitment to craftsmanship has captivated luxury connoisseurs for centuries.

New York, Ny, Us

✓ Hall des Lumières, New York City’s largest permanent center for immersive art experiences, is Culturespaces’ first location in North America and features exhibitions that include the work of world-renowned artists and a diverse range of cultural themes. ✓ As Managing Director, I provided leadership in optimizing the venue’s core business disciplines (Marketing, Events, Group Sales, Retail, Audio Visual, Operations, Finance) to reflect the organization’s highest standards. ✓ By establishing a stable foundation, my divisional teams were equipped to fulfill the company’s mission of making state-of-the-art, custom-curated cultural experiences of world-renowned artists more easily available to all people around the world.

Seattle, Wa, Us

✓ Point B is a global management consulting firm specializing in helping companies execute strategic initiatives and business results that generate transformational change and competitive advantage. ✓ As Principal Consultant, Consumer & Retail, I provided omnichannel leadership experience in developing industry insights, perspectives, and strategies across the core business areas of finance, marketing, operations, merchandising, organization, and customer experience. ✓ Together with Point B team members, I provided customers a clear path to an inclusive and sustainable future, channeling our collective expertise to optimize consumer engagement, customer insight, supply chain, technology, operations, organizational design, performance, and corporate responsibility as a strategic lever for success.

✓ Engaged to optimize operations, sales, and customer experience based on decades of success at Nordstrom, Celine, Barneys NY, Saks Fifth Avenue, Banana Republic, Discovery Channel, Gap, MyDreamStore, National Geographic, Nature Company, NBA.com, Nike, and Pier 1 Imports. ✓ Frequent collaboration with experts in brand development, fashion, and visual merchandising, HR, IT, marketing, real estate, retail operations, team development, and web development kept me in tune with latest industry trends.✓ Shared industry experience, insight, and perspective at academic institutions, nonprofits, and the international business community, and wrote on topics related to business fundamentals, the prevailing retail environment, leadership, innovation, work culture, and career development.

Seattle, Washington, Us

✓ Launched Nordstrom's Women's Flagship and two New Concept Local Stores while executing operational improvements at the off-site stock staging facility in support of the ultimate world-class customer experience. ✓ Hired, transferred, and developed team members to ensure alignment of omnichannel initiatives and services with company standards and SLAs for every customer. ✓ Provided campus-wide leadership, developing productive relationships with store managers, merchants, customer service, and loss prevention, to build a solid platform for business growth in the highly competitive NYC market.

Paris, Fr

✓ Led Celine’s US retail initiative focused on strengthening store leadership and talent, client visits, client outreach and engagement, and merchandising. ✓ Planned and initiated a brand-based business model in support of operational efficiency and profitable growth. ✓ Redeveloped management teams to drive consistency and efficiency… Collaborated with PR firm on ad content and placement... Formalized store merchandise profiles to reflect each distinct market/location… Initiated prelaunch preparations for web presence in the US.

New York, Us

✓ Senior leadership team member with full oversight of business activities for off-price divisions and the biannual sales special events in Los Angeles, New York, and on the Web. ✓ Partnered with Finance, Marketing, and Merchant Groups to design and develop barneyswarehouse.com, Instagram presence, and POS promotions. ✓ Steered 5-year strategic restructuring plan... Empowered the workforce and upgraded performance with new training, resources, KPIs, and sales incentives… Spearheaded innovative plan for a seamless customer experience by connecting virtual store operations with brick-and-mortar locations.

New York, Us

✓ Led multimillion-dollar men's furnishings, shoes, designer apparel, casual sportswear, co-op, and tailored clothing business ✓ Streamlined operations with the merger of 2 men’s divisions and drove operational transformation as part of a greater enterprise-wide reorganization.

New York, Us

✓ Led the upgrade and restructuring of a large ready-to-wear/shoe business… Established associate and management training and development initiatives… Created an engaging work culture that lifted morale and improved productivity and performance… Enhanced the customer experience… Improved collaboration and communications with the merchant group.

Washington, Dc, Us

✓ Designed a robust eCommerce site as part of rebranding initiative to broaden appeal, and launched "shop-in-shop" concept with a national, multistore outdoor retailer.

✓ Launched new consulting business with broad array of clients including National Geographic, National Basketball Association, Discovery Channel, Nature Company, MyDreamStore.com. Nike, Pier 1 Imports, Gap International, Banana Republic, and Saks Fifth Avenue.

NIKE, NEW YORK, General Manager. Planned and launched $50M flagship store and distribution center, with team of 400.PIER 1 IMPORTS, NEW YORK, Regional Manager. Turned around struggling multimillion-dollar Fifth Avenue store and launched second location. GAP INTERNATIONAL, LONDON, District Manager. Promoted to lead the planning and launch of Gap International in London, thereby establishing the brand's presence in the European market. Grew the store fleet from 3 to 35 over a period of two years. BANANA REPUBLIC, NEW YORK & CHICAGO, District Manager. Launched first NYC Banana Republic store in West Village then 59th Street flagship location. Doubled the number of Chicago stores in two years. BARNEYS, NEW YORK, Group Manager. Advised senior leadership on planning and executing launch and operations of the $165M flagship store. Provided expertise in establishing policies and infrastructure for top performance in store operations, customer service, visual merchandising, and sales.SAKS FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK & SOUTHAMPTON, Manager, Southampton (NY). Assistant Buyer, Men's Collection & Men's Sweaters (Fifth Avenue). Saks Executive Training Program.