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Clive Malcolm

Clive Malcolm

Hampton,US

Summary

Detail oriented professional with a proven track record of leveraging data-driven insights to drive strategic decision-making and enhance business performance. Possessing extensive experience in analyzing complex data sets, developing actionable insights, and implementing innovative solutions to optimize customer engagement and maximize profitability.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Assortment Planning

Dollar Tree
Chesapeake, Virginia
04.2023 - 05.2024
  • Develop and maintain assortment plans for the Category while investigating top and bottom performing products on a weekly basis and providing recommendations to the Category team
  • Align item plans to category strategies, merchandise plans and open-to-buy, assessing trade-offs from inclusion of new items, providing merchandise financial planning recommendations
  • Analyze actual business performance relative to plans and trends, reporting variances to plan
  • Prepare reports required for analysis including recap of seasonal financial performances
  • Propose action plans to capitalize on opportunities and mitigate risks
  • Perform analysis of SKU and historical product performance to assist the Category Merchants with the development of the assortment
  • Conducts in-depth SKU level pricing and profitability analyses
  • Managed monthly P&L reports
  • Enhanced store Volume grade group process by creating metrics that is specific to the assortment season to timeframe
  • Led the three categories assortment analysis breakdown by urbanicity to improve assortment productive across eight thousand stores
  • Created end of season excel report that tracks assortment sell through percentage and productive for each seasonal assortment
  • Facilitated conversation about store profitability by urbanicity
  • Presented recommendations to executive leadership that led to one thousand stores being close that lowered the company operating cost by 15%
  • Developed strategic initiatives and collaborate with cross functional merchandise business partners to drive category performance
  • Coordinated with management to gather, review and testing data to identify opportunities and solve problems for under preforming categories
  • Led the category merchant teams in defining targets for the their assortment by urbanicity and price point
  • Develop creative solutions to help business meet deadlines and obligations
  • Trained cross functional business partners how to define assortment for their target consumer
  • Created pricing models by zone to capture value of proposition that drives ROI to customer and business

Allocation Analyst

Dollar Tree
Chesapeake, Virginia
02.2022 - 04.2023
  • Facilitated conversation for store volume grades by urbanicity.
  • Presented recommendations to merchant partner for seasonal allocation strategy.
  • Developed weekly tracker to track inventory flow by DC.
  • Led MAP meeting with cross functional business partners to ensure alignment on product allocation.
  • Analyzed weekly sales report to gain insight on top items
  • Develop creative solutions to help business meet deadlines and obligations.
  • Trained cross functional business partners how to analyze volume grades
  • Manage over 700 fashion SKUs

Financial Analyst

BridgeCrest
Mesa, AZ
08.2016 - 01.2022
  • Develop reports to track quarterly performance.
  • Optimized action plans to examine feasibility of deals and prepare a plan of action based on financial analysis.
  • Created excel report for my team to simplify preforming cost analysis which led to providing better recommendation to leadership to use for strategic decisions.
  • Created and manage quarterly P&L reports to present to leadership.
  • Facilitate monthly meetings with team to analyze sales and market trends.
  • Develop automated report to forecast weekly sales.
  • Collect and analyze data from industry and provide recommendation to gain market shares

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Business Admin -

Arizona State University
05.2015

Skills

  • Analyzing and interpreting data
  • Writing SQL Queries
  • Financial Planning SAS Software
  • Collaborative work
  • Leveraging data analysis
  • Microsoft excel

Timeline

Assortment Planning

Dollar Tree
04.2023 - 05.2024

Allocation Analyst

Dollar Tree
02.2022 - 04.2023

Financial Analyst

BridgeCrest
08.2016 - 01.2022

Bachelor of Arts, Business Admin -

Arizona State University
Clive Malcolm