Company name: Robin Isaacsohn Inc.

Company size: 1 employee

Role in this company: Merchandise planning and analytics professional with over 25 years experience in retail, ecommerce and wholesale with a concentration on apparel. Collaborate with clients to develop/enhance the merchandise planning infrastructures to drive bottom line performance and improve working capital management by optimizing inventory. Provide visibility and transparency to facilitate informed decision making by surfacing opportunities and proactively identifying issues for impactful actions.

Company name: James Perse

Company size: 200 employees

Role in this company: Developed retail and wholesale merchandise plans and OTB budgets for a California lifestyle brand. This resulted in optimal store inventories which contributed to increased sales and inventory turn. Coordinated inter departmental planning for retail and major wholesale accounts. Managed corporate auto replenishment program. Developed comprehensive reports highlighting key business metrics. Analyzed and provided objective, independent observations and recommendations on business performance.

Company name: St. Johns Knits

Company size: 300 employees

Role in this company: Implemented planning and analysis from the ground up for vertically integrated high-end apparel manufacturer operating boutique and outlet stores. Developed annual financial budgets and coordinated the pre-season and in season merchandise planning process. This generated Open to Buy and inventory controls which reduced inventory investment with minimal stock outs and contributed to a significant same store growth.

Company name: Barbeques Galore

Company size: 150 employees

Role in this company: Enhanced the merchandise infrastructures for the USA & Australian operations of an international specialty retailer. Coordinated extensive business metric reviews with specific recommendations that contributed to comp sales and gross margin gains and a improvement in inventory turn . Developed and implemented a key item strategy for items which accounted for 20% of skus but generated 75% of sales. This resulted in a inventory reduction and 97% in stock to fully exploit seasonal opportunities

Company name: Deloitte Consultant

Company size: 500 employees

Role in this company: Assisted major domestic and international retail clients in identifying strategic/operations problems and implementing effective solutions. Projects included financial controls and process improvements, reorganization plans, business analysis and system selection and implementation. Identified and championed system enhancements which generated exception reporting based on predefined parameters that improved operations, drill down analysis and corporate and store reporting.