Chris Poole

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About Chris Poole

As a North America Allocation Planner at Nike, I apply my retail planning, merchandising, and forecasting skills to help create and optimize the omni League and License Business within the North America Geography. I have over 7 years of experience in Merchandise Planning, Retail Category Management, and supply chain. I am a skilled Retail professional with business planning, category management, and supply chain analytic experience. I am Experienced in detailed category analysis, sales analysis, vendor negotiations, and bottom-up and top down assortment planning. Previous experience managing $30M and $110M businesses in Hard and Soft Line businesses. I am passionate about delivering sport and the right product to our customers at the right time. I work with my team to drive seasonal sales initiatives and improve order management processes to ensure that goods arrive to our stores in a timely manner once an order is cut. Experienced in gathering and analyzing client sales data to evaluate customers, markets, and new opportunities for an organization with Excel, Tableau, and Power BI. I am a self starting and problem solving retail professional who strives to get answers, drive sales, and continue to grow and learn in the retail industry.