Sherri Valdez

• Achieved favorable pricing, quality, and quantity with diligent vendor relationship management. • Facilitated communication with suppliers and built positive relationships to align performance with organizational goals. • Managed supplier relationships, continuously monitoring quality and reliability and resolving problems. • Enhanced planning procedures by instituting a personal planning tool • Planned and executed purchase order creation, cost verification, and database maintenance. • Maintained ideal inventory levels, actively reviewing stock against sales ratios • Coordinated and lead communications on numerous product formulation changes with internal and external partners • Project managed the successful launch of 10 new products by collaborating with internal and external partners

• Adept at creating and maintaining a budget • Assigned and scheduled housekeeping duties to children according to their capabilities • Successfully prepared 4-year-old for kindergarten; Reading level currently 150% above average • Conflict resolution expert. Sibling rivalry down 40% • Volunteered at school functions and attended all field trips • Performed basic household tasks; cooking, laundry, cleaning. Detailed closets, bathrooms, and garage as needed. Increased nutritional value of food by 50% by cooking meals during the week at home. Incorporated more vegetables and lean meats. • Provided emotional and financial planning support to elderly mother after the passing of my father and grandmother.

• Developed/executed subdivision financial plans in both dollars and units by week for sales, receipts, inventory, gross profit, and inventory turn • Collaborated with the buyer in building financial targets for sourcing and vendors as applicable. • Prepared and managed the subdivision Open-to-Buy to ensure optimal performance was achieved by month, quarter, and season, while managing to plan goals. • Developed and approved lifecycle product plans including exit strategies to maximize profitability. • Prepared weekly and monthly review of sales, gross profit, and inventory results and coordinated subsequent re-forecasting with the Planning and Allocation Director, as well as the buying team to identify, quantify, and communicate opportunities and risks. • Created and reconciled item plans, merchandise financial plans, and assortment plans as needed. • Supervised the activities and workflow to ensure allocation objectives were met. • Coached and developed team members by providing leadership and fostering professional growth both by example and training.

• Responsible for ensuring timely and efficient product flow by partnering with vendors, oversea partners, and shipment tracking • Aided Assistant Buyers with receipt tracking, assortment plans, OTB, and size optimization • Suggested and implemented additional extended sizes based on sizing and financial analysis • Successfully incorporated a process to increase Basic Fill %’s; Analyzed business trends, inventory levels and forecasted buys for over 100 items • Reviewed the site weekly for issues/opportunities • Selected to train new Ecommerce Business Analysts for the Division • Promoted to Ecommerce Planning Manager

• Quickly learned brick and mortar systems, terminologies, and processes • Reported weekly on current inventory status and supplier compliance • Provided Assistant Buyers with EFAS projections for domestic suppliers • Reviewed weekly EFAS allocations to ensure accurate on hand/on order WOS • Promoted to Senior Inventory Analyst

—• Forecasted a sales lift and planned shipments to support additional marketing and replenishment for a Juvenile bedding set, resulting in a 33.5% gain over plan at a 99.5% fill rate. • Identified inventory opportunity to improve fill rate on top quartile item from 82% to 98% by increasing the frequency of flows and increasing the safety stock. —• Analyzed and reviewed weekly Hits and Misses to provide selling patterns to business partners and developed actions plans to maintain desirable inventory levels. —• Established rapport with suppliers to optimize communication and ensure necessary inventory availability. Provided new item and seasonal estimates for entire assortment. —• Managed forecasts, inventory levels, and OTB for Juvenile Bedding and Private Label Bedding • Promoted to Store Inventory Analyst

• Partnered with suppliers weekly to establish rapport, ensure on time deliveries, and maintain supplier compliance • Strived to learn DIA responsibilities; requested to aid DIA’s in forecast set maintenance, entering estimates, pulling history, ad-hoc reports, etc. • Responsible for pulling weekly reports, Purchase Order Follow up, creating/maintenance import buysheets, maintaining team calendar, recording team PTO/MTO, scheduling meetings, purchase order creation • Supported Direct Inventory Manager, Ecommerce Planner, and 6 DIA’s • Received top ratings every year for performance • Promoted to Direct Inventory Analyst