leyton croxdale

merchandise planner

About

Senior Manager with a focus on bringing together multiple teams and disciplines in order to gain consensus and integrate towards a new or changing business use case. Particular expertise integrating supply chains and inventory. Specialties: Vendor negotiations, project management, forecasting, planning, inventory.

Country

united states

City

dallas

Industry

retail

Skill

inventory management, planning, vendor relations, forecasting, merchandising, retail, supply chain, buying, budgeting, replenishment, p&l management, team building, supply chain management, e commerce, negotiation, process improvement, inventory control, category management, purchasing, vendor management, cross functional team leadership, coaching, p&l, team management, visual merchandising, contract negotiation, analytics, management, project planning, income statement, budgets, real estate, team leadership, pricing, sales, strategic planning, product management, product development, leadership, strategy, competitive analysis, recruiting, project management, business process improvement

Experience

merchandise planner

jcpenney

director - inventory

peekay inc.

2007-12 - 2009-7 · 1 yr 8 mos

Lead the team making all assortment, purchasing and inventory decisions both day-to-day and longer term plans.

owner

rydynn

2016-11 - 2017-11 · 1 yr 1 mo

senior managing partner

rydym llc, dba, your temptations

2010-7 - 2011-5 · 11 mos

senior planning manager - expansion categories

amazon

2002-1 - 2004-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Coordinated the Inventory and Supply Chain portions of launching a divergant group of stores on the platform: Apparel, Sporting Goods, Jewelry, Watches, Health & Personal Care, Beauty.

planning manager

amazon

2000-4 - 2002-1 · 1 yr 10 mos

Coordinated the Inventory and Supply Chain portions of the Kitchen store launch. Shortly after that launch, we added the Tools & Hardware and Outdoor Living stores were added and the group became the Home & Garden division.

vice president

peekay inc.

2007-12 - 2010-6 · 2 yrs 7 mos

* Responsible for teams making all merchandise, purchasing, pricing/costing and display decisions associated with this 32 location chain. * Improved focus on e-commerce portions of retail and wholesale portions of the company. * Increased sales in a tough market while improving margin and reducing inventory. * Established new display/merchandising parameters to focus on strengths and improve look and feel of the brand.

divisional planning manager - consumables

amazon

2004-1 - 2007-11 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Launched new Grocery store and integrated that industry's supply chain into the Amazon.com network. Combined that launch into the combination of stores Health & Personal Care, Gourmet, and Beauty stores into what is now the Consumables Division. Drove many new features both on the website and in the Supply Chain in order to successfully execute the best customer experience possible.