Bike

Golf

Lifestyle

Outdoor

Skate

Snow

Surf

Swim

Triathlon

Health & Fitness

Anything outdoors

Buyer

Other Services

Actively seeking position to learn and grow from and to be able to share my expertise along the way. 

- Manage portfolio with over 20 suppliers for Kids Outdoor category.
- Responsible for category with over 14 M in Net Sales, create assortment to best support category and vision of the category within overall corporate vision.
- Have increased profitability within mature category 3 years in a row
- Analyze business on a daily basis; make adjustments to inventory levels to ensure optimized targets.
- Write budgets and forecast for vendors on a monthly basis along with writing Planned sales and budgets for next calendar year.
- Negotiated better terms, additional discounts and marketing support with vendors to help drive top line sales and bottom line revenue goals.
- Work with other teams across company to ensure the time to site is as short as possible and help ensure sales goals are met.
- Developed and maintained amazing vendor relationships.
- Help train new team members on Zappos systems along with mentoring/coaching new team members.

- Forecasted sales, inventory, receipts, markdowns, and turn for assigned areas of responsibility on a monthly and annual level.
- Provided recaps and analysis to support buying process.
- Prepared and conduct monthly business reviews with Buyers to monitor and analyze inventory efficiency to maximize sales and turn.
- Assessment of past seasons and results providing insight to future plan development and recommendations in concert with Buyers.
- Help to monitor current On Orders for Business Unit and give recommendations for optimal flow into the Fulfillment Center.
- Run weekly reports to continue to evaluate opportunities within the Business Unit as a whole and make recommendation for individual Buyer Categories to maintain margins, sell through and turns.
- Responsible for building and nurturing critical internal relationships through supporting various culture based activities and open and honest communication.

Merchandise Planner - Fashion Footwear team

- Responsible for all apparel purchasing for primarily E-commerce based business in addition to 30 retail stores.
- Manage approximately 6 million dollars in inventory.
- Predict and forecast for growth of additional retail stores added to the RRS company.
- Write pre-season and introductory purchase orders, along with forecasting at once orders for Branded along with Private Label apparel vendors.
- Manage and forecast product sales, analyze current and potential new sales.
- Track orders and ensure timely delivery of products, follow up with vendors and communicate any delays to the proper channels to ensure flow of product and communication is at highest quality.
- Provide analysis support to Product Management team for accurate and timely delivery and proper selection of product based on previous performance of products.
? Responsible for building and nurturing critical vendor relationships.
? Implement and monitor reorder points for products to ensure sufficient stock levels and timely deliveries.

Merchandise Planner

Buying Department Manager

- Oversaw Product Searches via Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Comparative Shopping Engines (CSE).
- Responsible for maintaining and growing positive vendor relationships, forecasting product trends, analyzing current and potential new sales.
- Responsible for building and nurturing critical vendor relationships
- Implement and monitor reorder points for products to ensure sufficient stock levels and timely deliveries
- Wrote pre-season and introductory orders, selected appropriate products and negotiated pricing and shipping costs
- Managed online retail database including adding new products, descriptions, images and html codes
- Reconciled and reviewed invoices from vendors, verified the correct terms, and ensured proper payment, while taking advantage of all possible discounts.
- Demonstrated effective leadership and encourage team concepts
- Recognized as TriSports.com Employee of the Year 2009 for going 'above and beyond' as a leader and setting the example as an employee

Alison Jacobsen: Buyer in Las Vegas, NV

Alison Jacobsen

SUNY Morrisville