Experience

Boxy Charm

• United States
• Technology, Information and Media
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Merchandise Planning Manager, Subscription

  • Mar 2022 - Present

  ➤ Managing the box merchandise planning team to create and assort monthly subscription boxes for 1.5M customers.➤ Reducing inventory position by $27M in 6 months by partnering with our portfolio brands and other programs.➤ Partnering with Engineering and Operations teams to create assortment planning tools and box builder initiatives.➤ Managing projects and leading assortment reviews with merchant team and supply chain to close monthly assortments.➤ Working with merchandising team to book products and create assortments that enable revenue and profitability targets.➤ Developing analysis needed to build merchandising strategy for brand, product category, and price point plans.➤ Providing management weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc reporting on product performance, revenue, and profit objectives.➤ Working on a cross functional team from Merchandising, Brand Partnerships, Operations and Member Journey teams.

• Merchandise Planner, Subscription

  • Feb 2021 - Mar 2022

  ➤ Grew sales 15% and profitability 8% by taking data-driven approach to optimize assortments and reduce product costs.➤ Identified $2.8M opportunity of under-performing inventory by leveraging e-commerce channel and other divisions.➤ Managed inventory levels and purchasing as well as provided reporting on planning objectives and build assortments.➤ Partnered with Creative and Marketing to identify key items to market monthly with influencers and on social media.➤ Managed merchandising planning processes for segments of the commerce business in a cross-functional environment.➤ Developed analysis needed to build merchandising strategy for brand, product category, and price point plans.➤ Tracked and approved purchase orders, organized merchandising buying plans, and tracked product booking progress.

• Associate Merchandise Planner, Subscription/Merchandise Coordinator

  • Dec 2019 - Feb 2021

  ➤ Came onboard as Merchandise Coordinator in 2019 to being promoted to Associate Merchandise Planner in 2020.➤ Partnered with buying team on assortment and new product sourcing and with Marketing to ensure strategies align.➤ Developed monthly 360 merchandising decks and presented the assortment to marketing, creative, and PR teams. ➤ Managed planning meetings for product and ecommerce sales events and communicated accordingly across teams.➤ Partnered with Supply Chain to ensure inventory was delivered in a timely manner to ensure production dates were met.➤ Ensured all product data was available, accurate, and correctly verified and maintained records of product assortments.➤ Collaborated with Operations team to develop new processes as well as oversaw purchase order management.➤ Worked extensively on a taxonomy implementation project with Akeneo to streamline subcategories across channels.➤ Coordinated ship dates with brands as well as proactively addressed, resolved, and escalated any operational issues.



Office Depot

• United States
• Retail Office Equipment
• 700 & Above Employee

• Category Assistant, Merchandising

  • Aug 2018 - Nov 2019

  ➤ Analyzed reports to track sales and determined action steps by applying category management planning processes.➤ Partnered with merchant and vendor teams to properly set up new items and maintain item integrity in all systems.➤ Provided product demand forecasting to the inventory team to leverage the best pricing for inventory position.➤ Constructed omni-channel pricing, promotions, and marketing for the public website as well as retail stores.➤ Maintained vendor funding and promotional tracking as well as provided weekly store communication notes.➤ Entered data to support pricing guardrails and established pricing strategies to maximize promotional effectiveness.➤ Assisted in forecasting, budgeting, managing assortments, conducting line reviews, and setting price points.➤ Performed analysis and reporting (recurring and ad hoc) to support the Category Manager and Category Analyst.➤ Worked with Category Management and Merchandise Operations to ensure products are priced and scan accurately.➤ Communicated and verified new items for set-up and discontinued items as well as set-up for promoted items.

• Merchandising Operations Assistant

  • Feb 2018 - Aug 2018



Halls c/o Hallmark

• Kansas City, MO

• Merchandise Assistant

  • Feb 2015 - Dec 2016