Avery Adams Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, MN, US

Minneapolis, MN, US

St Louis, Missouri, US

Driving sales, building relationships and making connections for my clients - Land O'Lakes, Krispy Kreme and Bob Evans.

Tampa, Florida, US

Deerfield, IL, US

• Hand-selected to serve as Lead Merchant on largest pharmacy acquisition in history. Responsible for creating and driving plans to transition merchandise for almost 2000 acquired stores
• Responsible for managing sales performance in acquired stores. Analyze, report and drive performance by identifying category trends, partnering with suppliers to address opportunities and creating plans to drive growth
• Lead cross-functional team to deliver more cohesive and profitable seasonal assortment. Responsible for planning assortment, sales forecasting, budget approval, promotional planning, pricing and in-store execution
• Developed processes to liquidate and transfer merchandise from closing stores and prepare for brand transition
• Created pricing strategy to drive positive pricing perception as stores transitioned to Walgreen brand. Led development of interim pricing engine that tracked and managed pricing in acquired stores
• Created supplier-facing communication plans for Walgreen's transition to SAP-based system. Identified content, communication vehicles, measured message success and developed best practices for multi-year communication.

Deerfield, IL, US

• Selected to lead newly formed team responsible for local merchandise assortments worth $750M annually. Developed multi-year strategic plans focused on building processes to define, track and optimize local sales.
• Developed plans to drive COG savings and consistent product specifications to drive quality standards. Drove over $6M in annualized sales while reducing vendor count by 88%.
• Grew Hispanic item sales by 40% through development of new merchandising strategies, strengthening vendor partnerships, improving COGs and partnering with Supply Chain to drive enhanced in-stock positions
• Negotiated multi-year $150M supplier contract that granted Walgreen’s brand and product exclusivity allowing Walgreen's to dominate market share in key categories for the Hispanic market
• Served as team lead for people development; created training plans, job descriptions and led career pathing. Led 18+ person team of Managers, Analysts and Coordinators. Associate engagement scores consistently in top 15%

Deerfield, IL, US

• Managed P&L for household categories contributing over $1billion annually. Managed 30+ CPG supplier relationships for paper goods, laundry, cleaners, insecticides, cups/plate and air fresheners/candles
• Created strategies to capitalize on emerging trends while driving sustainable and profitable market share growth
• Developed innovative and consumer focused planograms that spurred category growth; #1 market share with single unit dose detergents through “Building a Laundry Regimen”
• Developed top-rated private brand items and over-delivered in sales and profit penetration targets; bath tissue recognized as #2 ranked bath tissue by Consumer Reports
• Provided cross-functional leadership to indirect reports across analytics, private brand, visual merchandising, supply chain, finance and pricing; managed three direct reports

Deerfield, IL, US

• Managed P&L for $66M Produce and Floral business. Responsible for developing vendor relationships, custom assortments, pricing strategies, promotional plans, in-store training and creating distribution solutions
• Consolidated local programs into national program. Delivered 34% and 43% comps for V-Day and Mother’s Day.

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Managed +$4MM marketing budget to create and drive consistent brand image for Hispanic, African-American, GLBT, Polish and Jewish customer segments
• Drove market share by working with Insights, Merchandising and Suppliers to segment stores, select relevant ethnic products and creating key holidays/programs that resonated with ethnic customers
• Develop $9MM communication plan that utilized broadcast, print, online, direct mail, grass roots, in-store marketing, and public relations
• Established Hispanic and African-American agencies of record; responsible for authoring contracts, annual scopes, agency evaluations and campaign measurement for ethnic agencies

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Shared historical performance and presented multi-retail banner opportunities that leveraged buying scale. Used historical sales, forecast, customer metrics and external trends; joint plan delivered incremental sales.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining advertising/promo calendars detailing corporate initiatives, sales targets, promotions, capital expenditure and media plans. Responsible for tracking and reporting sales vs.

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Promoted to Merchandiser in less than one year. Served as key account manager for bigg’s (Ohio chain with $19.2M annual sales). Responsible for sales generation, issue resolution, forecasting and promotions. Analyzed.
• Served as Southeast region’s key account manager - covered five states, 191 stores and four distribution centers; annualized sales of $25.2M

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Selected to join new subsidiary six months after joining Supervalu. Promoted and relocated to Urbana, Illinois
• Responsible for profitability of produce categories including bagged salads, organic and specialty items – represented over 300 SKUs and 14% ($16.8M) of total yearly sales; improved margin 8.38% to 9.33%
• Maintained 96% service level, while reducing shrink from 3.47% to 1.10% of sales

Lakeland, Florida, US

• Responsible for managing all marketing and advertising activities for Produce, Floral and Bakery – categories represented over $4.3B in sales. Activities included developing annual marketing and communication plans.

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