
NAME
ADRESS
PHONE
Areas of Expertise: retail, wholesale, department store, fashion industry, off-price, high-end, corporate environment, private company, apparel, and fine jewelry.
Professional Skills: strong analytical, reconciliation, problem solving skills, and the ability to interpret financial data. Exceptional ability to objectively and logically present an argument. Ability to multi-task, meet deadlines, and adapt to change.
Personal Skills: excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to communicate effectively with upper management to review monthly financial reports; ability to synthesize information to key takeaways to communicate with senior management
Computer Knowledge: literacy includes, but not limited to JDA Arthur Planning, Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, Decision Master, and Maximizer. Advance Excel proficiency. Internet and e-commerce Savvy
Essentials: B.S. in Business, Management, and Finance
Languages: Fluent English, Russian (Native Fluency)
EXPERIENCE
XXX, New York City, NY (07/07 – 11/08)
Senior Associate – Sales and Inventory Planning -- High-end fine jewelry
• Developed, forecasted, and analyzed customer and regional level annual, seasonal and monthly financial plans, managing $30 mil of inventory. Provided in-season projections, analysis and reporting based on OTB, trend, and strategic initiatives.
• Planned and managed over 100 accounts including Neiman Marcus, Saks, and Barneys.
• Ran a successful Replenishment program of core styles for the Saks account.
• Planned and monitored consignment sales and inventory levels, turnover, and sell-thru by door.
• Developed strategy and growth plans for breakout merchandise categories.
• Provided research and analysis of merchandise selling trends and price-points.
• Identified and recommended merchandise category opportunities for online business such as style priorities, price-points, and unit sell-in.
• Published monthly sales results by account, region, and Account Executive.
• Worked closely with Account Executives to monitor sell-in, sell-out, and open orders.
• Created Post-Tradeshow Analyses and Top Seller Reports recapping orders by collection, group, palette, style, and price-point.
• Prepared and presented quarterly figures and graphs to Director of Sales.
• As a member of Inventory Control Committee, actively managed inventory including seasonal sample set selection, ordering of top-selling styles, and approval or denial of additional consignment inventory.
XXX, New York City, NY (10/06 – 07/07)
Marketing Effectiveness Analyst -- Advertising department
• Created reports geared towards tracking the effectiveness of marketing efforts.
• Analyzed impact of marketing promotions and results of a variety of testing programs including price tests, landing page optimization tests, and campaign creative tests.
• Analyzed reports and other data for the purpose of offering actionable interpretation of results.
• Published daily coupon unit and dollar sales results.
XXX, New York City, NY (01/01 – 10/06)
New Markets Analyst – Corporate Analysis (06/02 – 10/06)
• Reviewed and analyzed company’s sales, inventory, turnover, sell-thru, markdown, and gross margin performance by market. Offered actionable interpretations of results by identification of opportunities.
• Executed Comparative Analysis of different common areas within the company and published reports outlining Monthly, Quarterly, and Seasonal trends.
• Evaluated Vendor as well as Merchandise/product performance by market.
• Developed reports to monitor the effectiveness of company initiatives and strategies.
• Generated ad-hoc analyses based on business needs.
Re Regional Analyst – Apparel, Misses Related Area (01/01 – 06/02)
• Responsible for planning, forecasting, analyzing, revising, and maintaining accuracy of seasonal and monthly merchandise regional plans by classification in dollars and units.
• Analyzed sales and inventory trends by region to determine cause and effect of poor or exceptional performance, and recommended actions to be taken; as a result presented classes with exceptional performances during monthly meetings with Buyers and communicated dollar plans to Merchandise Control Analyst as well as unit plans to Store Analyst.
• Trained new employees.