This is a page from the packet I FedEx’ed to Magellan’s on July 6, 2010:
My qualifications for the Merchandise Planning Manager job:
- 5 years of inventory planning and sales forecasting experience
- 3 years of operations planning experience for apparel retailer Eddie Bauer
- Power use of Excel, Access, and ERP systems
Planning dynamics I’ve worked with:
- Product lifecycle planning
- Seasonality
- Category- and product-level forecasting
- Promotional schedules
- New product rollouts
- New channel fills
- Margin optimization
- Lead time reduction
- Risk balancing
Other strong points:
- Top of the line analytical skills
- Top of the line communication skills
- Proactive, assertive, and astonishingly persistent
The contents of the FedEx packet:
Section 1:
Letter to Mark Gallo
Section 2:
My qualifications
I will do much more for you, too
Cover letter to Alyssa Baris
My resume
References
What others say
Section 3:
Earplugs as a gateway drug
Improving the newsletter
Stealing an idea from Zappos
Section 4:
Three reasons why I want to work at Magellan’s
I love travel
I love multi-channel retailing
I love Santa Barbara
The clincher
Section 5:
Activity log