Britta Leisovnieks
Louisville,USA
Summary
A multilingual merchandise planning and trading professional with more than 10 years of experience in the retail industry. Highly motivated in delivering results with an energetic hands-on approach. A resourceful and analytical problem solver with the ability to drive change management whilst ensuring operational effectiveness.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
MANAGER MERCHANDISING, PLANNING AND ALLOCATION
MATTRESS FIRM
03.2023 - 08.2023
- Building financial merchandise plans and demand forecast plans for business unit greater than $600M with omni presence in 2000+ stores
- Developing product end of lifecycle playbooks and ladders, leveraged by the entire business
- Partnering closely with cross functional stakeholders for product management from launch to end of life management
- Contributing to business share growth by more than 3% by increasing forecast accuracy of 10% on month-to-month basis.
SR. MERCHANDISE PLANNING & ALLOCATION PROCESS ANALYST
LEVI STRAUSS & CO
09.2023 - Current
- Regional (Europe) subject matter expert lead for merchandise planning, inventory management and allocation processes in key transformational global projects such as SAP S/4 fashion implementation and new best in class European distribution center roll out
- Responsible for improving and developing processes for business to gain effectiveness as well as global alignment
- Cluster lead for new global allocation tool project for business replenishment and customer VMI.
- Analyzing process flows and identifing areas of improvement to increase productivity and reduce costs.
- Identified and analyzed project risks and developed mitigation strategies.
MERCHANDISE PLANNING & TRADING MANAGER NORTH EUROPE
LEVI STRAUSS & CO
03.2019 - 08.2021
- Merchandise planning, allocation, and customer service manager for the Northern European business across 400+ retail and wholesale doors
- Responsible for the AFP and translation into yearly purchase budgets for seasonal buy, accounting for over 40% of the European business
- Working closely with the financial teams to revise sell in numbers for business partners
- Reviewing and managing the monthly forecast and open to buy assumptions for the supply team to be in line with the demand and manage risk on overstocks
- Coaching a team of 7 direct reports responsible for the pre-season planning, in-season stock management, weekly trading, and customer service for the market to deliver best in class experience
- Actively building relationships with key cross functional stakeholders, e.g., visual merchandising, marketing, buying, finance, retail directors and sales directors, account managers to share best practices and in season opportunities to maximize growth
- Advising on strategic decisions on promotional period for the European leadership team
- Analyzing and creating playbooks for in-season commercial decisions to drive revenue
- Reviewing in season profitability to improve product performance by identifying product opportunities to contribute on excess stock management and increase sell thru KPI by 5%
- Collaborating and advising the data science teams to create the AI needs for the European business like seasonal promotional activities, omni-channel wins cross markets, planning capability improvement.
SR. ALLOCATOR/DEMAND PLANNER E-COM AND NORTH EUROPE
LEVI STRAUSS & CO
01.2013 - 02.2019
- Stimulating growth whilst optimizing stock levels for market across business models and DTC/OMNI channels
- (O&O/Franchise/Commissionaire/ Concession) Leading the implementation of the global SAS integration as the new E2E planning and allocation tool, including the training and change management of the European allocation team
- Integrating strategic key accounts, e.g., Zalando, Europe's biggest e-commerce fashion retailer, to automated replenishment system resulting in a growth of 20%
- Optimizing sizing selection for future seasons based on historical sales analysis
- Monitoring trends and shifts in the industry, maintaining a healthy awareness of the competition
- Leading a team of 4 direct reports
- In charge of demand planning forecasts, weekly, monthly, and seasonally.
Education
OSS RETAIL
08.2019
LANGUAGE STUDIES
09.2013
1ST BBA
01.2012
Skills
- Merchandise Planning
- Inventory Management
- Project Leadership
- Data Analysis
- Change Management
- Team Management
- Communication
- People Development
- Microsoft 365
- Relationship Building
Personal Information
Work Permit: authorized to work in USA
Timeline
SR. MERCHANDISE PLANNING & ALLOCATION PROCESS ANALYST
LEVI STRAUSS & CO
09.2023 - Current
MANAGER MERCHANDISING, PLANNING AND ALLOCATION
MATTRESS FIRM
03.2023 - 08.2023
MERCHANDISE PLANNING & TRADING MANAGER NORTH EUROPE
LEVI STRAUSS & CO
03.2019 - 08.2021
SR. ALLOCATOR/DEMAND PLANNER E-COM AND NORTH EUROPE
LEVI STRAUSS & CO
01.2013 - 02.2019
OSS RETAIL
LANGUAGE STUDIES
1ST BBA
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