Christine Linfante-Hill

Consumer-Centric Strategic Leader  

Christine Linfante-Hill is a highly effective leader who transforms people, processes, and system capabilities to drive efficiencies, increase profitability, and provide a competitive advantage through strategic planning and execution. Christine is a retail specialist who has over 30+ years experience in retail, e-commerce, wholesale, supply chain & finance experience. Skilled at formulating vision and strategies that drive best practices, navigate diverse cultures and legacy mindsets to build productive, profitable value chain operations. Forward thinking and impactful leader at the forefront of organizational change, empowers high performance teams, develops executive level relationships, and fosters collaboration among key decision makers to create enterprise buy-in throughout the global organization.

Experience

CLH Associates – Business Enablement Lead

• Lead a global business team in vendor selection for a new PLM system
• Created vendor scorecards, RFQ documents, business surveys and presented project recommendation to the Steer Co.
• Implemented global process system for business process team
• Created stakeholder engagement plans, communication strategy, change assessment for ERP system

 PVH – GVP Global Transformation Enablement

• Cross-Functional, Global Team leader driving major transformation initiatives through a newly created Transformation Enablement Center of Excellence team.

PVH – GVP Global Business Process

• Developed end-to-end business process documentation for Go to Market, Plan to inventory, Plan to produce, Procure to pay, Order to cash and Record to Report. Leveraging best practices across regions, multiple domains and common processes.

Tory Burch – VP Global Merchandise Operations, Planning & Allocation

• Lead and develop a planning, allocation and merchandise operations team focusing on maximizing sales and margin and optimizing inventory for a global business including  Full Price, Outlet, Ecommerce and Wholesale business channels. Improved GM by optimizing inventory and localizing assortments.

 Ralph Lauren – Senior Director Planning & Allocation

• Lead a planning and allocation team that was focused on driving sales and margin while decreasing inventory.