CLAUDIA MENDOZA

**** * **** ******, *******, IL *0641 773-***-**** adiomx@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Highly skilled Senior Retail Planner with 8+ years in Planning/Buying experience, with 8+ years in E-commerce and 3 years in Brick-and-Mortar Retail. Result focused, quality driven professional with strong forecasting, analytical skills, and inventory management experience.

CORE KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

Sales Forecasting and Trends

In-Season & Pre-Season Planning

Build Partnership with Peers & Vendors

Inventory Management

Assortment Planning

Develop Allocation Strategies

Data Analysis

Merchandising Strategies

Process Improvement

WORK EXPERIENCE

GAP, INC, (Brick-and-Mortar)

Senior Market Planner for GAP North America Women (New York, NY) 2017 – 2019

Influence sales performance through effective pricing and markdown strategy.

Executed weekly, monthly and quarterly sales report to analyze current and historical trend.

Forecast open-to-buy (OTB) on monthly/quarterly basis at Department/Class level outlining sales goals and cost movement.

Explain monthly forecast vs. actual variances, possible risk to original annual plan and provide go-forward action plan.

Appointed North America Women’s subject matter expert (SME) on Basics/Core Product Demand systems and process.

Created Demand Forecast for our Basic/Core product at a weekly/monthly/quarterly by sku/ store level.

Partner with Inventory Directors, Merchants, Production and Marketing to execute financial plans.

Meet weekly with Merchants to discuss business performance and action steps.

Collaborated with Merchant and Production counterparts to flex receipts into trending styles.

Align with Visual Store Planning and Merchant team on store placement and marketed events.

Partner with Store Planning team to ensure that inventory was allocated to the appropriate stores on time at sku level.

Inventory Management/Merchandise Planner – GAP Outlet US Women (San Francisco, CA) 2016 – 2017

Manage apparel classes comprised of $5.5MM in Revenue, both Pre-Season and In-Season

Build bottom–up sales plan at PID level to achieve class/department top-down targets.

Developed inventory buy plans to support unit sales based on turns, sell-through and budget.

Reconcile monthly inventory balance by evaluating discrepancies in actualized receipts against buy plans.

Work with Test & Respond team to gauge customer response to fabrics, silhouettes and other attributes.

FANATICS INC, (E-commerce)

Supply Planner for Fanatic’s Brand, (San Francisco, CA) 2014 –2016

Managed 4 apparel categories comprised of 380K PIDs, $23MM in Revenue.

Key Player in creating an action plans to target each production deadlines for New Brand; Bulk Screen Print, Sourced, and on Demand Custom while marching to achieve financial goals.

Partner with Merchants, Buyers and Sourcing team to reduce costing and increase margin dollar.

Collaborated with Business Intelligence to help create reporting system and needs.

Merchandise Planner for NHL & NBA Apparel & Jerseys (Jacksonville, FL) 2012– 2014

Managed NHL and NBA apparel and jerseys comprised of $113MM in revenue.

Collaborated with buying team to monitor new products performance to quickly react to opportunities.

Identified low margin, size stock outs to maximize sales and provide good customer experience.

Key player in converting, consolidating three system data in order to view total company’s YOY performance.

Collaborated with Buyers, Marketing and Social Media team to promote key styles.

Assistant Buyer for Hardgoods All Leagues (Chicago, IL) 2008 – 2012

Managed pricing through entering updates, clearance, and promotional sales.

Placed and tracked orders for core products to ensure timely deliveries.

Negotiate on pricing, logistics and shipment terms with vendors.

Resolved image, product and invoice discrepancies.

Built strong relationships with vendors while ensuring compliance with company’s SLA.

Appointed as team leader for 4th quarter, oversaw a team of six.

SYSTEMS EXPERIENCE

Proficient in Microsoft Office Suites, Power BI, Microstrategy, Oracle Pricing, JDE, OBI, Tableau, DAX and PETE systems.

EDUCATION

Wilbur Wright College, Chicago, IL

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