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Rogers, Ar, Us

Rogers, Arkansas, United States

• Manage relationships with Buyers to enhance brand awareness and grow sales at Wal-mart while achieving internal gross profit targets year over year.• Use category insights and knowledge to grow and maintain secondary placement within the store and introduce innovation.• Manage internal forecasts of sauces and seasonal business to ensure production and availability of product. • Achieve triple digit growth YoY on Walmart.com.• Oversee innovative customer promotion spends that drive sales through OPD, instore, and Walmart.com• Create, update, and manage online PDP’s to drive conversions online.• Collaborate with Walmart Media Group to create display and sponsored product campaigns that drive awareness and achieve significant Roas.• Lead communication and direction out to our entire third-party field sales representatives team.

Rogers, Arkansas

• Managed relationships with all points of contact within the supply chain including demand planning, distribution, customer service, distributors, replenishment, sales team and leadership.• Managed entire Q4 planning process for the company, ensuring product availability and on time deliveries.• Oversaw forecasting, ordering, projections and fill rate with both McLane and Coremark.

Rogers, Arkansas

• Forecasted both internal and with the customer for product launches, seasonal demand and everyday • Facilitated end to end features for both WM and Sam’s Club.• Managed everyday replenishment activities including instock reporting and improvement strategies, GRS forecasting, and OTIF performance initiatives.• Drove sales with innovative supply chain approaches which maximized on shelf availability at the retailor.

Bentonville Arkansas

• Maintain ongoing dialog with business partners and vendors.• Communicate daily with Walmart Replenishment to recommend systems changes and replenishment settings to maximize instocks• Improve forecast accuracy to minimize deleted inventory maximize fill rates

• Manage over $150MM in inventory replenishing several of the grocery departments largest categories including soup, canned beans, canned tomatoes, and rice• Monitor and change inventory levels to stay instock and hit budget on a consistent basis• Successfully converted several suppliers to the new GRS inventory management system and became one of the go to experts• Effectively communicate strategy and plans with business partners to deliver business results• Effectively use DSS and other information to evaluate inventory position and make decisions to capture sales• Consistently delivered results by making turns budget

• Learned the culture of Walmart as well as the basics of replenishment• Gained valuable insight into store and distribution center operations• Completed and presented a GRS cutover plan for multiple departments

Mastered Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access• Leader of a team of three people• Taught and administrated an entry level computer course• Gained valuable presentation skills and experience in public speaking

•Participated in various lean projects including a week long Kaizen event focused on warehouse efficiency• Became acclimated with inventory management software through weekly assignments using the companies MAPICs program

Bachelors Of Arts, Supply Chain Management

Studied Supply Chain Management at one of the top rated universities in the nation.

Minor, International Economics

Specialized Studies in Southeast Asia