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Senior Store Planner

Administration & Clerical

Focused on driving sales, turn and gross margin through Product, Price and Presentation...	
Results-driven retail professional with extensive experience in boosting merchandise performance and profitability through brand development strategies for Brick & Mortar and E-Commerce. Hands-on experience in coordinating and negotiating with suppliers to ensure fair pricing at cost and retail. Demonstrated expertise in OTB, top-down, bottom-up, class, vendor, assortment and store planning; Constantly communicating new ideas and effectively identifying class and store opportunities to increase sales and maximize profits.


Reconciled bottom up store sales and inventory plans for Accessories, Home, Swim, and Sport by partnering with the Buyers, Planners and Allocators to ensure proper levels of inventory are being planned in stores and distribution center. Develop pre-season assortment plans by volume clusters to ensure assortment strategy ties to the merchandise targets. Created assortment localization strategies by climate/ethnic and or product lifestyle. Liaisons between Supply Chain and Field Leadership to effectively manage inventory flow from warehouse to store

BELK  (Charlotte, NC) — Assistant Planner (Special Sizes & Junior Plus) 7/12-8/14 (Sls Volume $50M/300 Ecom&Stores)
Responsible for developing bottom-up pre-season sales, inventory, turn and gross margin plans by department/class by collaborating with cross-functional teams. Maintain open communication with the VP of Planning on optimizing stores BOP, identifying under or overstock stores, RTV’s, Ecommerce transfers, key items planning and OTB risk. Implement pre-season size selling and case pack pre-season recommendations with cross-functional partners.
•	Pacesetter Award: Proficiently monitoring top volume stores stock to sales inventory plan and ensuring that the inventory flow arrive at the right locations this played an active role in achieving overall YTD sales of +13.9% to plan, +23.0% to LY. These stores represent 38% of Junior Plus total sales penetration.
•	Exceeded company turn rate in mid-tier stores (ranked 50-150) for Plus Women by reviewing stock levels on monthly basis to identify risk and opportunities. Increase overall sales of $15K, average inventory $6K and turn of 2.62, which is +4.4% faster than the company turn goal of +3%.

Assistant Planner

JCPENNEY (Plano, TX) — Senior Business Analyst (Men & Women Athletic Footwear), 8/10 to 4/12 (Sls $130M/1100 Stores & Ecommerce)
Collaborated with allocation and ecommerce team to develop assortment planning/allocation exit strategies that align with future financial and product goals by sub/brand/class. Built store attributes to understand specific market/store needs by climate/region/demographic & fashion segments to drive sales and gross profit. Identify inventory opportunities to boost profit through assortment strategies. 
•	Liaison between stores and e-commerce team to effectively enhance product assortment on jcp.com which increase total sales in the athletic sandal program from $4M to $6M and increase AUR $ by +15.8% to LY.
•	Associate of the Month-March 2011 & December 2010 by creating seasonal zone presentations between men and women athletic footwear by implementing statement towers and seasonal graphics in mid/bottom stores for BTS that increase total sales +10.1% to Plan and +25.2% to LY.

Senior Business Analyst

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Frederica Bonner

Florida State University