SKILLS:

JDA Enterprise Planning, Maple Lake, SAP, Retail Link, Oracle, Arthur Planning, I Plan, E3, AS400, WMS, Blue Cherry, Power BI, P4P, PEM Amazon, JCPenney, Target and Kohls portals and Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Planner

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the development of division, department and class level plans that support market strategy
• Develop Pre - season tops down department and class level plans that align with division objectives
• Develop style level sales and inventory plans, Own bottoms Up financial reconciliation of class to department
• Drove strategies to positively impact assortment and financials
• Owned OTB and sales and inventory forecasting, including assessing total risks and creating resolutions
• Recommend and execute in-season pricing strategies
• Lead Demand driven buying efforts

Confidential

Senior Wholesale/ Confidential Planner

Responsibilities:

• Provided key data and analytics of performance within Product Categories across Wholesale accounts, including Confidential Business.
• Managed open-to-buys, receipt plans, margins and turns.
• Worked closely with business partners in Sales, Merchandising and Finance to help drive successful growth and profitability within the channel.
• Provide strategic and analytical support to drive achievement of sales plan, improved gross margin and key financial goals.
• Responsible for merchandise/inventory and demand planning for Wholesale businesses.
• Partner with merchants on assortment and key styles, maintain sku analysis, identify risks and opportunity.

Confidential

Senior Planner

Responsibilities:

• Created annual, monthly retail sales, receipt & margin plans
• Own monthly actualization of Account Level Open-to-Buys and update 12 month rolling sales, inventory & shipment forecast.
• Analyze retail sales performance by Account, looking at dept./collection/style, to identify opportunities and mitigate risks.
• Develop, maintain and update reporting tools that give visibility to key business metrics by Account
• Responsible for providing finance with monthly annual wholesale shipment forecast by partner
• Oversaw maintenance of retail sales database by door including comp door status
• Generated weekly top line retail sales performance and inventory levels by Account
• Generate weekly product level reporting by account
• Identify product opportunities by account and recommended adjustment of shipment receipts & flow by account based in in season sales performance
• Generated weekly reporting on status of wholesale shipments vs. targets

Confidential

Senior Retail Merchandise Planner

Responsibilities:

• Developed seasonal plans, which tied to corporate sales, gross margin, and turn targets by store, division, and class.
• Created, managed and maintained yearly, monthly department financial forecast.
• Take timely action to maximize sales, profitability and inventory productivity.
• Forecasting sales, inventory, gross margin and markdowns. Effective planning of inventory to drive maximum in store sales and margin return.
• Partner with merchants to develop business strategy and manage OTB process.
• Determined inventory class needs by store volume group. Maximized inventory flow to improve turn and sell off percent’s.
• Identified sales opportunities through effective strategic planning and execution that achieve financial goals.
• Re-project monthly sales and markdowns based on trends, receipt flow and promotions.
• Monitored business weekly to identify and maximize opportunities.

Confidential

Senior Merchandise Planner

Responsibilities:

• Built financial plans and identified strategies to reach financial goals of the company.
• Partnered with Buyers to develop buy plans, purchasing guidelines, and store plans based on trend, store profiles, competition, and seasonal merchandise.
• Oversaw and monitored allocation of merchandise to achieve store sales, turn, and gross margin goals.
• Analyzed in season business to increase sales, gross margin and managed inventory levels and markdowns.
• Review and challenge monthly open to buy, weekly sales and markdown projections.
• Built Ladders and Vendor plans to support Buying Team.
• Created yearly forecast for sales and inventory.
• Maintain inventory levels by door for all locations making sure each door carries the right assortment for the location.
• Monitor sales to choose items for markdowns and order cancellations.
• Supervised allocation to doors so they will have correct assortment by location and ranking.
• Reported weekly to upper management, opportunities to drive business and reduce risk.
• Supervised allocator and assistant planner to insure daily workload is complete.

Confidential

Senior Planner Retail

Responsibilities:

• Senior Planner for 703 retail stores and internet.
• Maintained and Managed OTB. Develop original dollar/unit plans by dept.: Sales, Markdowns, inventory/turn, receipts, mark-up and gross margin.
• Highlight key sales drivers for each dept. for 4 to 6 months. Drive purchase quantities for initial buys and reorders.
• Effectively plan and manage seasonal entrance and exit strategies .
• Fine tune the assortment planning process.
• Ensure the allocation team is effectively building new store inventories effectively manage back stock inventory levels.
• Review internet top seller/selling reports.
• Developed and supervise one P & A analyst and two allocators

Confidential

Senior Planner

Responsibilities:

• Developed seasonal plans for sales, inventory, and markdowns.
• Performed weekly sales forecast and adjustments.
• Made weekly recommendations to allocators to insure proper store inventory levels.
• Determined adequate inventory levels at entrance and exit of season to maximize profitability.
• Analyze and revise the financial strategy for current trend or actual performance on a weekly/monthly basis to maximize sales, profitability and ensure financial parameters are achieved.
• Developed the number of choices for each style based on inventory needed to support the rate of sale and the markdown strategy for merchandise area based on sell-through percent and timing.
• Review volume, markdowns, margin and inventory