Christina Thompson

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ABOUT CHRISTINA THOMPSON

I am a senior merchandising planner with extensive experience in customer-centric, cost-effective, data-enabled, and strategic merchandising strategies. Currently, I lead merchandise planning for Walmart’s Floorcare and Appliances department, supporting 12 Merchandising Directors, Senior Merchants, and Associate Merchants, and overseeing both in-store and dotcom financials. My career highlights include: • I partner with merchants to create and make customer-centric merchandising recommendations across in-store and dotcom channels. I grew my business line by 110.53%, achieving 99.89% greater growth than the overall US vacuum market, improving profitability by 1150%, and increasing US market share by 35.58%. • I leverage real-time, complex data analysis to support item-level, unit-level, category-level, and department-level financial forecasts. I merged store and dotcom financial systems into an integrated, omni-channel system, and I piloted a “clustering” tool that made assortment recommendations based on demographically similar stores. • I navigated the US’s imposition of tariffs that affected 93% of the SKUs in our assortment. Since the tariffs began, I saved $25M+ through proactive planning, scheduling, and negotiating.