Manager Sales

JESSA STRASSE

**** ********* ****** • Wilmette, IL • 60091

*************@*****.*** • 415-***-****

CAREER SUMMARY

MBA candidate with extensive retail and planning experience. Responsible for many aspects of planning and production including:

financial planning and forecasting, strategy development, factory capacity planning, inventory management; as well as the

management of a team of planners and production coordinators.

EXPERIENCE

Nine West Group, Jones Apparel White Plains, NY May 2005 – Sept 2009

Senior Planning Manager/ Production Manager- Open Stock

• Managed a team of planners responsible for $72M wholesale open stock business.

• Partnered with upper management and COO to initiate and lead system improvement initiative. Worked closely with MIS,

leading initiative to overhaul an antiquated proprietary suggested buy system. Launched best practices for the division, developed

and published related training materials.

• Established close working relationships with customer’s individual planning departments to aid sales team by opening an

additional channel of communication. Accompanied sales team executives on customer visits to provide open stock expertise in

regards to automatic replenishment systems and to strengthen business relationships.

• Personally managed the largest of the six brands, a $34M business, comprising nearly half of that brand’s total business.

• Performed detailed sku analysis to create assortment recommendations for large national department store customers in an

effort to increase customer profitability translating into new sales for NWG.

Gap Inc, San Francisco, CA April 2004 – April 2005

Distribution Planner- Women’s Denim, Gap Domestic

• Developed, executed, and communicated inventory management strategies to support bottom-line objectives of the

organization.

• Supported national marketing campaigns and mitigated markdown risk thru effective inventory distribution strategies.

• Conducted size-selling analysis and identified location trends, presenting results to cross functional team to assist in

decisions.

• Represented the corporation at campus recruiting events and shared experiences as a guest speaker in new-hire training

courses.

Mervyn’s, Target Corporation, Hayward, CA August 2003 – April 2004

Business Analyst- Intimates

• Successfully completed Target Corporation’s 20 week Executive-In-Training Program, “Inventory Management System

Training”, to learn forecasting tools, techniques, and best practices.

• Graduated training program, placed into a sku-intensive division, and immediately started managing all phases of planning

and inventory replenishment throughout the company’s four distribution centers and 266 stores for a $2 million Intimates program.

• Devised and implemented a large-scale exit strategy of unprofitable skus, partnering with Buyer and vendor, presenting

recommendations to management.

EDUCATION

DePaul University, Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, Chicago, IL expected graduation June 2010

Master of Business Administration, Brand Management GPA 3.93

• Graduate Assistantship- Economics Department

• GMAT- 680

University of Connecticut, School of Business, Stamford, CT 2006-2008

• 6 graduate level MBA courses taken, coursework applied towards degree at DePaul

Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, Bloomington, IN 2003

Bachelor of Science, Business Marketing & International Studies GPA 3.39

• Direct Admit to Business School, Hong Kong Overseas Study Participant, Student Alumni Association

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Kellstadt Marketing Group, DePaul University Chicago IL

2010

• YMCA, Parent Advisory Group, Evanston IL

2010

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