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Managed and maintained the strategic pricing program for the Dairy, Produce, Bakery, Center Store teams. This includes monitoring competitor price changes and cost increases, providing recommendations for regular retail price changes to category teams, and implementing the new regular retail price changes on a weekly basis. Continued to expand the Tableau Pricing portfolio with additional dashboards highlighting regular price versus promotional price effects, internal cost and price inflation over time, and internal pricing team audit reports.

Supported the Merchandising team through an enhanced weekly Ad Analysis, transforming a written document into a dynamic, visual presentation providing insights and actionable analysis. Created a Pricing portfolio in Tableau by reimagining several excel based reports and creating a platform where the Merchandising team can find insights and results on the many pricing initiatives, such as, price investments, price & cost changes, competitive comparisons, etc. And introduced impact variance analyses to Merchandising standard reports, allowing business owners to quickly determine drivers, such as cost, price, volume, etc.

Manage $70M annual budget over 7 Programs, this involved partnering with Accounting on the monthly accrual process, explaining monthly variances, and preparing month end reporting packages for stakeholders. Created standardized month end reporting packages, creating efficiencies within the team’s workload, uniformity across programs, and simplified month end results for non-Finance team members. Established relationships with key stakeholders across the programs I supported, creating an environment for partnership between teams.

Responsible for updating and compiling several portions of the month end Monthly Operating Report. Reimagined existing Tableau reports, introducing efficiencies and best practices to the analyses. This included reshaping and realigning the data for easy maintenance, and creating new visuals that allow dynamic reporting and provide insightful conclusions.

Finance Manager for Merchandising Analytics: led a team of four analysts, providing sales and margin forecasting, financial analysis, and dynamic business insights through data visualization for the Center Store, Perishables, and Pricing & Promotions Merchandising teams. Reestablished the partnership between Finance and Merchandising. Created processes for sales and margin forecasting, facilitating discussions and building consensus between Merchandising and Finance leadership while maintaining the integrity of financial results and analysis.

Provided margin forecasting analysis and financial analysis for our Center Store Merchandising teams. This included analyzing vendor negotiations, projecting the impacts of price changes and providing actionable analysis to drive sales. Assigned as team lead for the Finance Merchandising Analytics team and became the foremost business user expert in Tableau.

Provided forecasting and financial analysis for the Pricing and Promotion teams. This included building a new model to forecast and monitor the margin impact of ads, as well as, analyzing various price investment programs. In addition, I successfully launched several Tableau Dashboards to better highlight Save-A-Lot performance in these areas.

Responsible for daily and weekly reports for the Merchandising teams. Implemented a new Ad Analysis to monitor Ad performance, the key promotional platform, and completed ad hoc projects to learn the business, including margin impact, price change, and department analysis.

Provided monthly and quarterly performance metrics and analysis for several of Cisco's largest sales teams - the US Nationals Partner Organization, US Channels Architecture teams, and US Channels Small Business team. Worked on partner profitability models and created a standard in reporting that was scaled across my team.

Worked on the production and analysis of economic raw data and indices for two major economic indicators, the Consumer Price Index and the Employment Cost Index, as well as foreign hourly compensation estimates.