Bachelors of Environmental Design in Architecture

Merchandising Operations Manager

Logistics, Shipping & Operations

- SF based Members Only Flash Sale Website and App
- Responsible for the Merchandising Operations team, totaling 9 direct reports (domestic and international), A/B tests, pricing
strategies, and site merchandising across 750 skus launching daily on a premium experience, homegrown flash sale platform.
- Managed margin across product categories totaling $130M+ annually, increasing average aggregate monthly margin by 5% to LY
through strategic, vendor specific retail and wholesale pricing strategies.
- Managed sale and site merchandising strategies that drove $6M in GMV in Q2 2020 (+$3.9M to LY) and set wholesale targets for
sales managers that clawed back $350K in 2020 across high impact vendors and accounts.
- Led reporting and calendar initiatives with cross functional teams and developed granular KPI dashboards with BI team in Sisense.
- Optimized Merchandising Operations team's output and accuracy while maintaining calendar targets.
- Overhauled merchandise hierarchy to improve data analysis for Sales team and align with third party tax advisers.

- Not Your Daughter's Jeans - LA based Premium Denim Brand
- Responsible for non-denim product categories totaling 35% of a $120M+ annual global wholesale and DTC business.
- Created commercially appropriate product assortments with in-depth data analysis while increasing category penetration.
- Partnered with Design and Product Development to align margins with GM targets and developed competitive pricing strategies.
- Presented seasonal briefs to the CEO and executive stakeholders and facilitated investment strategy during market and in-season.
- Led merchandise functions in ERP and restructured merchandise hierarchy to improve business analysis.

Merchandising Consultant

Omni-Channel & Marketing	June 2015 - June 2019
James Perse Los Angeles - Luxury Apparel Brand
- Helmed analyses for the Director of Merchandising and executive stakeholders to manage business and assortment strategies
across a multi-channel, international fashion business that generated $140M+ annually.
- Increased performance metrics by identifying risks and opportunities, created action plans for cross functional retail teams.
- Managed pricing and promotional calendars, and set international pricing IMU's and exchange rates.
- Trained Retail and Ecommerce teams on business updates and Product Knowledge.
- Directed site merchandising strategy for monthly Ecommerce product drops and wrote outward facing Ecommerce copy.
- Conceptualized and scheduled email marketing initiatives that grew email marketing revenue by 9% in Q4 2017.
- Directed on-set talent, including stylists and models, during Ecommerce photoshoots and co-directed marketing shoots with VP of Visual Merchandising; talent included: John Balsom, Sebastian Kim, Ann Marie Kortright, Maye Musk, and RJ Rogenski.

Merchandising and executive stakeholders to manage business and assortment strategies

- Supervised costume production for full-scale operatic productions.
- Managed creative teams to achieve successful interpretations of designs for new and restaged productions.
- Directors, designers, talent included: Barrie Kosky, Darko Tresnjak, Allison Chitty, Linda Cho, and Renee Fleming.

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