Lead a team of up to 9 Inventory Planners, Analysts & Specialists for the Textiles/Home Accent Divisions. Guide planning team in execution of tops down financial plans, OTB, assortment planning & sku plans focused on KPI's: Sales/Margin/Turn for 7 depts, with a global vendor & product base.Review Channel sku allocation strategies, while considering visual and operational needs for b&m doors & e-commerce.Execute pricing, promotions and markdowns to deliver financial targets, partnering with field team and merchandising to execute, maintaining budget.Collaborate cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders (VP's Directors & IC's) to assure timely arrival and set of product, including Imports/Logistics, Merchandising, Visual, Store Ops and Finance. Mitigating and identifying financial risks/impact.In partnership with Business Intelligence created/ enhanced multiple internal processes, delivering efficiencies for stakeholders across Merchandising, Inventory Management and Visual partners.

Inventory & Financial planner for Flooring/Tabletop Textiles departments, encompassing 12 categories, 500+ skus, with differing intricacies concerning price point/cube.Develop sales/receipt/ flow strategies at the Sku level, presenting to DIM/DMM's with alignment from merchant partners. Focused on YOY productivity improvement, with lifecycle and exit goals.Develop organic Annual Financial Dept/Category Plans, supporting organizational Sales/Margin/Turn goals. Forecasted in season OTB.Partnered with Domestic and Import vendors to manage purchase orders and negotiate concessions as needed to drive IMU and flow.Collaborated with vendor community to reduce ship packs, MOQ's, forecast usage in fabric, packaging and greige goods to reduce liability and maximize usage for all parties.In addition to traditional planner role also Co-chaired creation of IM Planner S&OP Training Modules to create resource library for company. Also fostered the development and promotion of 2 direct reports.

Served as Lead planner on team of 3, aligning objectives, strategy and execution of deliverables as requested by executive leadership.Financial planner for Men's/Women's Lifestyle & Outerwear depts, driving 50% of Channel business.Collaborated with Allocation leaders to influence distributions at the region/store level, increasing productivity and store turn.Conducted deep analysis and dynamic reporting to assist allocation and merchant team with style/sku level opportunities overall and by region.Drove analysis on historical margin implication based on channel contributions to the overall DTC sector of the business.

Financial planner for Divisions: Men's/Women Logo, Performance and Lifestyle.Drove class planning and OTB, presenting to executive leadership in collaboration with merchant partners.Strategized & executed Key item assortment plans at the CC level. Driving 30%+ of division volume.Quantified end of season inventory transfers from brick & mortar stores to outlet channels, accuracy critical for outlet channel forecasts.

Inaugural DTC Ecom planner, position established to drive channel sales during platform upgrade & website relaunch. Supporting 25 departments for DTC.Established Ecom S&OP's: Post mortem reporting, weekly hindsight, & dept alpha implications needed to impact/analyze the business effectively.Key liaison between DTC and Inventory Management, improved communication and collaboration between the organizations.Managed sku visibility on platform based on forecasted inventory snapshots for owned skus.

Financial merchandise planner of multiple depts within the Decorative Accessories division: Candles, Artisan Gifts & Beauty/Personal Care.Stabilized and grew xandles department +21% by establishing receipt flow strategies, reviewing order depth, assortment planning and inventory optimization. Worked with analyst to reflow store inventories with detailed allocation strategies.Increased turn in Personal Care department, reduced liability with vendors by forecasting material usage (packaging) and negotiating MOQ's in advance of product placement.Responsible for sku level plans, independent from tops down plans, worked to align 4% delta acceptance for accuracy. Managed 2 business analysts, strategizing initial sets, flow strategies and maximizing store profitability.

Worked in tandem with owners and CFO, to drive fiscal plans and influence assortment strategies.Owned financial and sku plans, & in-season OTB mgmt for multiple areas including: gallery, gifting and decor depts.Re-invented sku level forecast methodology,, Improving forecast accuracy and workload efficiency, positively impacting supply chain management for in house gallery production.Implemented SOP’s for fixture fill, product lifecycle strategies & promotion needs.Collaborated with Inventory Control and supply chain to keep raw materials for gallery production in-stock and actionable for merchants.

Managed Private label Junior tops program driving 60% of total dept volume.#1 dept within company, exceeding Sales/Margin/Turn goals beyond plan for year.Cross-functionally Collaborated with Sourcing/ Trend/ Fit and PD to influence/create trend now styles to round out assortment.Owned AD style-outs, cross merchandising within the division for weekly print advertising.Established and fully strategized full ship pack flow initiative for key item programs. Optimizing store and DC labor, with vastly improved visual execution.