Allan Chabon

About Allan Chabon

Beginning my retail career in college to earn money to support my tuition and daily life expenses, I started in retail sales selling sweatshirts and t-shirts on commission to college organizations. I\'ve come a long way since then. I credit this earlier experience for launching a highly satisfying career in retail spanning women’s private-label, fashion, and casual sportswear apparel, natural high-quality pet food, pet supplies, and both hard and soft surface flooring, and installation industries.As a data-driven strategist for driving sales and margins across channels and brands while optimizing inventories, my principal career focus is to leverage my extensive years of experience and background in the Retail Supply Chain Planning and Forecasting areas while using my leadership and managerial skills and abilities to coach, mentor, and develop others to achieve overall success. RECEIVED SPECIAL RECOGNITION IN 2021>for my efforts to drive the 2022 planning process from the Senior Leadership team.I’ve been described by the people I work with as collaborative, adaptable, analytical, and innovative. I have a strong drive for excellence in everything I do. I believe that one of the things that sets me apart is my desire for success and transparency in getting the job done.Throughout my career, I’ve repeatedly been promoted. My short-term career goal is to take on more responsibilities in my current role. My long-term career goal is to become part of a senior leadership team. ADDITIONAL AREAS OF MY EXPERIENCE INCLUDE > Omni-channel forecasting, planning, and website, cross-functional team leadership, team training, and supervision, building relationships with key vendors, merchants, and business partners, developing and maintaining risk assessment modes, creation of processes that support integrated business planning and growth, expertise in retail math, analyzing financial reports + summarizing findings to create actions, inventory management and control, business and trend analysis, company reporting and dashboards, budgeting, GTM strategies. SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS & PLATFORM EXPERIENCE > Microsoft Office with advanced skills in Excel and Access, Tableau, SAS Retail Planning, JDA Enterprise Planning, JDA Demand Planning, MicroStrategy, Retek Merchandising System, SAP, Visual Basic for Applications, and SQL.

Experience

1. Planner Dtc

   Kontoor Brands, Inc.

   Nov 2025 — Present · Greensboro, NC, US

   Kontoor Brands, Inc.(KTB) is the parent company of Wrangler®, Lee® and Rock & Republic®, with owned manufacturing facilities in Mexico. Kontoor also owns and operates over 140 retail stores across the globe. Our global company employs more than people in 65 countries, with world headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina, and regional headquarters in Geneva and Hong Kong.

Education

• General Assembly

  Course work in Data Analytics using Excel, SQL, and Tableau

• The Ohio State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS)

Skills

• Advanced Microsoft Excel
• Change Management
• Merchandising
• Visual Merchandising
• Budgeting
• Retail
• Employee Training
• Inventory Management
• Inventory Control
• Data Warehousing
• Microsoft Excel
• Customer Service
• Tableau
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Microsoft Access
• Apparel
• Store Management
• Leadership
• Visual Basic for Applications (Vba)
• Business Analysis
• Mentoring
• Sql
• Strategic Planning
• Assortment
• Data Analysis
• Pivot Tables
• Microstrategy
• Negotiation
• Microsoft Office
• Team Leadership
• Retek
• Business Process Design
• Merchandise Planning
• Jda
• Business Process Improvement
• Trend Analysis
• Management
• Forecasting
• Process Improvement
• Multi-Channel Retail