• Knowledgeable hands on professional with experience ranging from department manager to senior operational levels.
• Experienced merchandiser with the proven ability to create effective assortments for both ecommerce and brick and mortar, develop merchandising, planning and allocation strategies across multiple categories, manage buyers, and maintain vendor partnerships.
• Created merchandising plans for soft goods, hard goods and accessories in the ski, outdoor, snowboard, tennis and footwear categories. Managed relationships with major vendors such as The North Face, Burton, Oakley, Nike, Helly Hansen, Columbia, Marmot, Salomon, K2, Quiksilver, Deckers, Confluence, Wilson and Merrell among others. Supervised six buyers. Consistently delivered superior maintained margins and profitability
• Successful track record of handling all aspects of operational leadership, including hiring, training, coaching, evaluation, loss prevention and human resources implementation in multiple locations.
• Familiarity with multiple ecommerce platforms with proven ability to move from wire frame to fully realized merchandising categories incorporating taxonomy, landing page and item page implementation.
• Demonstrated comprehensive understanding of multiple POS and SQL data systems with a strong ability to collect and organize data so it can be utilized to create financial policies and planning strategies that increase productivity, reduce waste and facilitate the realization of financial goals.
• Practical skills involved in managing large multi unit (20, 00 square foot +) high volume stores.