Sales Manager

Tara Sissick

Woburn, Ma *****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tara-sissick

adiv5t@r.postjobfree.com 617-***-****

Replenishment Analyst Demand Planner

Meet or exceed expectations through strong analytical skills

Skilled Retail and Wholesale merchandiser with experience in sales, supply chain, planning and analyzing. Proven ability to work both individually as well as part of a team with demonstrated success performing allocation, forecasting and sales analysis. Self-motivated and extremely organized.

Expertise includes:

−Rockport

−B2B

−Arthur Allocation

−Impromptu

−JDA Allocation

−Microsoft Excel

−AS400

−Log on

−SAP

−GBS

−BW

−Blue Cherry

Professional Experience

‘47 Brand Westwood, Ma

Buyer, Purchasing (position eliminated due to Covid-19) 2019-2020

Worked closely with vendors to facilitate timely order placement. Reviewed and approved invoices to ensure accurate charges between vendors and ‘47 brand. Communicated effectively with the Sales Team on any factory changes and updates.

●Worked directly with the Purchasing Manager to issue Purchase Orders to vendors.

●Coordinated X Factory dates by vendor, approved delays and confirmed shipping dates.

●Ensured receipt of weekly shipping reports from all vendors.

●Confirmed accuracy of vendor invoices and obtained approval for all debit/credit notes to submit to Accounts Payable for processing.

●Collected a weekly shipping report from all vendors and monitored changes.

●Approved/denied changes on WIP reports updating PO dates accordingly.

●Informed Sales Managers of major impact delays.

●Worked with Logistics to confirm shipping requests that had been received for upcoming x-factory dates.

●Consolidated Po’s when possible to help cut down on shipping costs.

●Imported ASN’s from vendors.

●Ensured all distribution centers and/or 3PL’s had a system receipt and accompanying paperwork for all inbound shipments.

Black Diamond Group, Inc, Woburn, Ma

Analyst, Planning and Operations 2017-2019

Accurately Maintained Product Master File, Status of Purchase Orders, and disseminated accurate data on customer demand, inventory position and purchase order status to meet the customer’s needs and achieve company goals.

●Maintained Product Master File for Carhartt, Oliver Thomas, and Battle Op divisions setting up new styles, generating UPC codes, maintaining changes in price, HTSUS, and size offerings.

●Created and updated purchase orders for Carhartt, Oliver Thomas, and Battle Op divisions, tracked Po’s and updated ex-factory dates and arrival dates into the warehouse.

●Tracked in transit containers and Po’s using freight forwarders status reports, created ASN’s and communicated priority containers to COO, Customer Service Manager, Freight Forwarder and warehouse.

●Monitored Sales and Inventory Position for the Oliver Thomas division and executed buy decisions directly from the President, communicating ship date and ship method to appropriate factory.

●Generated and transmitted daily ATS information for Carhartt footwear to all drop ship web accounts upon request.

●Reported Top styles and accounts for weekly and monthly orders of Carhartt footwear for retail and web accounts, sent previous year’s sales to the Sales Team. Ran sales reports on demand as requested by Sales Reps.

●Managed Carhartt web buy from model inventory template to create re orders based upon established model inventory levels buy style/width/size.

SAUCONY, Waltham, MA

Merchandise Planner, Footwear and Apparel 2008 to 2016

Provided accurate short and long-term product forecasts utilizing trends and sales forecasts. Coordinated forecasting process to appropriate level of details including, product-timing, intro plans, exit plans. Analyzed bookings vs. at once opportunities and SMU business.

●Continuously monitoring booking and shipping trends against factory buys to guarantee customer satisfaction.

●Met inventory turn goals by effectively managing inventory flow.

●Updated appropriate personnel with product availability to align with customer expectations and realistic ship dates.

●Partnered with sales management and attended pre-line meetings for information collection and product delivery advice.

●Maintained size scales for current on-hand inventory and opportunity buys.

●Tracked sales samples being sent to ASL warehouse from factories communicating to Sales when finished goods were expected to leave the factory.

●Placed orders with ASL sample warehouse, ensuring products shipped in a timely manner for each sales season.

●Prepared seasonal and SMU uploads to be set up in SAP system, enabling sales to place orders.

●Managed and updated material data once set up in SAP+, ensuring information was consistent with what was on SPEC’s so that China would not have to re-do labels which reduced costs.

●Worked closely with customer service team to update catalogs on B2B site: seasonal catalogs and At Once catalogs.

J.JILL GROUP, INC., Quincy, MA

Allocation Analyst, Pants 2005 to 2008

Initiated and performed analysis for 266 stores nationwide on a timely basis while allocating new receipts based on current trends of the company.

●Created and monitored new store opening assortment plans.

●Communicated with inventory control on issues related to product status and delivery.

●Analyzed store sales performances and inventory levels, by SKU, resulting in appropriate replenishment of units.

●Performed analysis to support the planning process to identify opportunities for expansion and contraction of product by climate and volume groups.

●Communicated with fulfillment center on daily distribution issues as they arose.

●Communicated with stores regarding best / slow sellers, transfers, markdowns and assortment needs.

●Analyzed size selling after each season to affect allocations and future purchases.

●Managed size scales for new store allocations based on size selling analysis.

BRIGGS NY (division of Kellwood), Brighton, MA

Allocations Analyst, Quick Response 2002 to 2005

Planned on hand inventory in order to fulfill customer requests based on daily orders generated from sales accumulated the day before.

●Assisted the Quick Response manager in cutting for 55 styles.

●Allocated orders within a week to 2-week cancel date with proper fulfillment.

●Responsible for keeping track of exact inventory on hand on a month-to-month basis.

●Prepared weekly updates for the 55 styles sold and compared them to last year's sales.

●Maintained JIT inventory levels.

●Met with VP monthly to discuss inventory levels.

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS), Marketing, Nichols College, Dudley, MA

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