JENNIFER MANDIGAL
Union City
Summary
Seasoned, customer focused, authentic and results driven leader with over 20 years of experience in the corporate retail sector across inventory management, buying, digital merchandising and finance. Strong financial acumen with the ability to deliver strong results, think outside the box and motivate a team at varying points in their career.
One word to describe me as a leader... AUTHENTIC.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
VP of Inventory Management
RH
06.2025 - Current
- Within the Outdoor Division- directed strategic initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and drive organizational growth preparing for Spring 2026.
- Managed cross-functional teams (Product development, Merchandising and Web) to align on priorities both in season and pre season.
- Implemented data-driven decision-making processes to optimize inventory and maximize gross margin in a challenged environment filled with the ever changing landscape of tariffs.
- Cultivated relationships with key stakeholders and members of the leadership team to foster collaboration and support business objectives.
- Delivered strong financial performance despite challenging economic conditions by executing prudent risk management strategies throughout all aspects of business operations.
Senior Director of Inventory Management
RH
07.2023 - 12.2024
- Started career at RH as Director of IM overseeing the Lighting division promoted to Senior Director of IM overseeing both Lighting and Decor in December 2024
- Oversaw two divisions within brand portfolio with a sku count of over 6000 skus and a team of 8.
- Worked closely with leaders and planners to create monthly buys that align with financial and gross margin goals while hitting key period inventory levels.
- Developed annual budget plans across all key metrics (sales, margin and inventory) aligned with the overall strategy of the brand while advocating and adjusting for divisional needs.
- Oversaw budget management, ensuring alignment with financial goals, optimizing inventory and reducing back order create by over 70% and increasing turn by 30%.
- Developed performance metrics to evaluate departmental efficiency, fostering continuous improvement across operations.
- Mentored team members of all levels, building a culture of accountability building bench and strength within the division.
- Initiated process improvements that streamlined workflows, working with cross functional partners (Product Development and Merchandising) to determine pre season work flow and milestones to remove bottlenecks and ability to hit timelines.
Senior Manager- Corporate FP&A
GAP INC.
06.2020 - 07.2023
- Effectively managed a financial analyst while also creating strong cross brand partnerships within finance and company planning.
- Oversee line of credit process for all brands within Gap Inc. portfolio; provide POV for approval or adjustments by brand to SVP for final approval
- Manage sales and inventory forecasts and presentation; aggregating all brands within Gap Inc.
- Leveraging prior inventory management/buying experience to evaluate, understand and come to the table with of point of view by brand and for total Gap Inc. portfolio of monthly forecast submission
- Present to CFO/CEO sales, margin, and inventory point of view of monthly forecasts by brand
- Analyze, quantify, and present risk and opportunity for sales and margin to senior leadership
- Using external resources and industry reports as another data point to evaluate Gap inc sales for portfolio and brand
- Collaborate with Investor Relations Team on a quarterly basis to craft salient data points to be used during quarterly CFO earnings and investor calls
- Intersect and collaborate with leads of finance and company planning teams across all brands
Buying Director- Women's Divison Gap Online
GAP INC.
02.2019 - 05.2020
- Effectively managed a team of two buying managers; overseeing the overall Women’s team of 10 buyers throughout both the in-season and pre-season process.
- Lead Women’s Division team of buyers to ensure execution of retail plans; end to end from initial adoption to end of season markdown
- Ensure during in-season that financial plans are met along with a path to exceed retail and gross margin dollar plans
- Develop pre-season quarterly plans that meet the needs of the division coupled with the goal of total brand/channel. Work closely with tops down forecasting prior to lock of plans and investment review
- Work hand in hand with omni merchants to ensure that online exclusive needs are met in assortment. Understand online market and determine gaps in the assortment to further drive growth and market share in the online sector
- Be the connection point between buying team and Gap online leadership team to relay “big picture” point of view to enable them to execute their jobs at the highest level.
- Accountable for the career and skill development of team members to ensure job satisfaction, retention and develop bench within the organization
Director of Digital Merchandising- Old Navy Online
GAP INC.
07.2017 - 02.2019
- Effectively managed a team of three digital merchandising managers. Transitioned to the Baby Division from the Women’s Division in July 2019 to broaden product expertise and continue to challenge myself with a different and complex business.
- For five consecutive years (2013-2017) drove positive comps within the largest division for Old Navy Online
- Partner with OMNI merchants to ensure that online exclusives needs are met within the assortment. Understand the online competitive marketplace in the value sector to continue to influence online exclusives
- Lead a cross functional team to deliver and execute strategies that support pre-season investments as well as the commercial plan
- Work closely with team merchandising coordinators to ensure that site divisional pages, evergreen categories, deal sorts and mega navs are the best expression of what are looking to drive for the customer
- Lead digital merchandising managers to ensure the proper execution of pricing that best sets up the division to hit plan and/or monthly OTB forecast. Communicate clearly any risk or opportunity to the strategy and LT teams to ensure alignment
- Develop pre-season plans that best represent the division’s assortment and forecasted trend and opportunity based on LY; while taking calculated risk to move the business forward. Work with team on bottoms up execution and presentation to VP during quarterly investment review
- Accountable for the career and skill development of team members to ensure job satisfaction, retention and develop bench within the organization
Director of Inventory Management- Old Navy Online
GAP INC.
11.2016 - 07.2017
- Effectively managed a team of three IM managers within all of Women’s and Women’s Non-Apparel/Accessories. Areas of responsibility account for over 50% of total Old Navy Online annual volume.
- Through effectively managing a team of IM managers- ensure the surgical execution of in-season promo pricing to obtain the best possible outcome for sales and gross margin dollars. Ensure team executes to an OTB forecast presented each month
- Pre-season management of an IM team; ensuring the pre-season plans along with bottoms up planning sets the division up for continued positive comps through proper investment of key merchandising strategies along with commercial plan execution
- Work closely with the following cross functional teams to ensure that the team executes BRAND strategies: ONOL merchandising, BRAND merchandising, company planning and marketing. Influence ONOL merchandising with data driven decisions to ensure that financial goals are met with proper investment in assortment presented
- Accountable for the career and skill development of team members to ensure job satisfaction, retention and develop bench within the organization
Senior Manager of Inventory Management- Old Navy Online
GAP INC.
02.2014 - 11.2016
- Effectively managed a team of five within three different divisions: Women’s, Women’s PLUS and Women’s Non-Apparel/Accessories.
- Through my team of planners and analysts managed the development of annual, seasonal and monthly plans. Effectively managed three separate divisions
- Develop multiple department level pricing recommendations and strategies in alignment with divisional financial plans
- Balance team workload through multiple process steps (including buy planning, pre-release forecasting and weekly re-forecasting.)
- Partner closely with merchants to work through assortments and styles needed to drive the business
Education
Health Education -
San Francisco State University
Skills
- Driving Results
- Strategic business insight
- Strategic Planning and Forecasting
- Relationship building
- Critical thinking
- Forward Looking
- Team Leadership
- Team motivator
- Calculated Risk Taker
- Goal-oriented planning
Timeline
VP of Inventory Management
RH
06.2025 - Current
Senior Director of Inventory Management
RH
07.2023 - 12.2024
Senior Manager- Corporate FP&A
GAP INC.
06.2020 - 07.2023
Buying Director- Women's Divison Gap Online
GAP INC.
02.2019 - 05.2020
Director of Digital Merchandising- Old Navy Online
GAP INC.
07.2017 - 02.2019
Director of Inventory Management- Old Navy Online
GAP INC.
11.2016 - 07.2017
Senior Manager of Inventory Management- Old Navy Online
GAP INC.
02.2014 - 11.2016
Health Education -
San Francisco State University
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