Vetted Operations Professionals in California

“Merchandising and buying leader with experience at Rue Gilt, Zappos, and Fisker, owning end-to-end category strategy, OTB, and vendor negotiations across multi-channel e-commerce. Known for structuring high-impact vendor deals (tiered cost breaks, exclusivity, vendor-funded markdowns) and using SKU-level analytics to drive outsized results, including 15% sales growth/8% margin improvement on a $55M category and 80% YoY profit growth from partnership agreements.”

“Procurement/sourcing professional with experience at Avantstay, owning end-to-end sourcing for furnishing new properties under tight go-live deadlines. Demonstrated trade/tariff cost mitigation by shifting a Canada-based linen supply flow to bulk US warehousing, and built cross-functional SOPs and vendor KPIs to improve operational execution despite lacking an ERP.”

“Procurement/sourcing professional with hands-on experience across facilities build-outs, custom print/envelope supply, and complex logistics. Demonstrated ability to reduce costs (20% savings on custom envelopes) while maintaining delivery performance, and to mitigate trade/tariff exposure through alternative routing strategies. Uses Critical Path Method to manage multi-step production and packaging dependencies and has improved supplier performance in multi-site service delivery environments (Iron Mountain/Office Depot).”

“Merchandising/brand partnerships professional with hands-on experience sourcing and executing end-to-end fashion deals (e.g., Lemaire), including line reviews, budget and terms alignment, and coordinating launches with marketing/social teams. Uses detailed performance data (OTB, SKU productivity, margin, sell-through, and attribute-level insights like color/material) to build assortments—especially in complex categories like footwear—and applies structured post-launch reviews plus remediation tactics (markdowns, RTV/swaps) when launches underperform.”

“Entrepreneurial film producer with 30+ years creating award-winning media who has raised capital for multiple feature-length projects and navigated film-finance realities (escrow funding timelines, investor commitment risk). Applies a business lens to ventures (market sizing, scalability, differentiation) and builds cost-effective GTM using Meta/Facebook ads backed by strong creative storytelling and a broad creative network.”