Donna Lekites

Highly Motivated Leader with Proven Experience in Delivering Business Value

Donna is a senior level executive with over 30 years of experience in the retail industry. She has extensive leadership and practical experience in retail systems management, consulting and retail software implementation and sits on advisory boards for industry leading software providers. She is a proven executive leading decades of client growth through hands on management, coaching, and partnering.

Experience

• Big Lots – Overarching PM
  • Program leader across Software Vendor, Client, and CCI team
  • Established framework for new hybrid agile delivery of o9 Planning system
  • Managed cross functional Steering Committee updates
  • Managed risk mitigation and issue resolution
• Conn’s – Transformational Program Executive
  • Led Board Level and Sr Executive strategy setting
  • Aligned cross functional team for overall vision development
  • Led Strategic Roadmap development
• VF Global – Strategic Consultant/Global Business Architect
  • Led definition of harmonized future state business processes across regions and brands: Merchandise Planning,  Item Planning, Forecasting, Allocation, Replenishment and Assortment Planning
  • Led systems and process evaluations
  • Developed transitional recommendations by region and timing