Tyler Baker Email & Phone Number

Lenexa, Kansas, United States

Topeka, Kansas Area

• Support growth of the Franchise business via strategic planning and forecasting. Utilize modeling to develop EBITDA plans, and strategies to achieve the financial targets, identify new business opportunities and.
• Analyze and manage P&L statement for Franchise, Int’l Business Development, and Wholesaling divisions.
• Helped in the implementation of Zero-Based Budget expense management within the Franchise function.
• Review and analyze all store sites for financial viability and success, utilizing pro forma modeling on revenue, expenses, cash flow, and 10-year Post-Tax IRR.
• Support Int’l Business Development via identification of potential markets, partners, and strategies for implementation, modeling of financial viability of new ventures.

Topeka, Kansas, United States

Baldwin City, KS

Topeka, Kansas Area

• Ensured franchise organizations understood brand standards, concepts, and strategies by Reviewed, managed, and evaluated merchandise and business operations to ensure standards were achieved.
• Created, analyzed, reported, and taught merchandise theories and management to drive sales performance and maximize profitability.
• Developed excel based prescriptive buy tools, inventory analytics tool, and assortment planning tool to aid all Franchise partners in selecting market specific assortments
• Developed and implemented corporate scorecards and action plans to support brand standards.
• Managed IT project to implement Franchise data warehouse system for strong reporting and analytics.
• Developed Division wide sales and revenue modeling for improved planning and forecasting of current and future Franchise partners.

Topeka, Kansas Area

• Led a team of analysts to develop and execute lot level distribution strategies within North America, utilizing analytics tools to maximize inventory effectiveness.
• Developed Excel based distribution tool to identify peak sales by store to maximize inventory efficiencies, leading to improved sales and margin performance.
• Improved bench strength and analyst performance through continuous training and feedback sessions.

Topeka, Kansas Area

• Led a team developing sales, markdown, inventory, and margin plans at a class level, partnering with Buying and Distribution teams to ensure delivery on corporate targets.
• Key planning initiatives helped to deliver $700M+ in sales annually, while managing an average of $550M in inventory.
• Developed modeling to accurately plan $2.0B in sales down to the day level.