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Dennis Mullahy JOB TITLE: CHIEF SUPPLY CHAIN OFFICER COMPANY: MACY’S
The Macy’s man with the magic touch
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acy's is one of the iconic American retail brands. It was founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. Headquartered in New York City, the company comprises three retail brands: Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury. On the back of two years of pandemic, it has gone on to become one of America’s leading omnichannel fashion retailers.
This is in no small part thanks to Dennis Mullahy, who has been Chief Supply Chain Officer at Macy’s for a shade under three years. Mullahy has always been results driven Mullahy is a proven leader in retail operations and management, and has built his reputation by driving results and building strong leadership teams and culture. It was the five years he spent at Michaels Stores that brought Mullahy to the attention of Macy’s. Michaels is North America's largest speciality provider of arts and crafts products. It has 1,200 stores in 49 states, as well as in Canada. For over three-and-half years, he was Executive VP of Supply Chain and IT, before which he was Senior VP of Growth Strategies. Mullahy has put in the hard yards. At Macy’s he has helped build an end-toend omnichannel supply chain, and never has anything less than a tight rein on the inventory processes, controls, and systems that ensure Macy’s shelves and racks have everything their customers would expect to find. Pre-pandemic, Macy’s announced a rather ominous-sounding corporate strategy called
