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Greater Atlanta Area

Creative problem-solving and analysis across multiple areas of business, ranging from labor planners for Operations to tracking and cubing out freight for logistics, and monitoring and managing our largest customers’ inventory and sales forecasts for them using their databases driving millions in sales.Designed and maintained dashboards for operations, sales managers, and the president to track budget progress, warehouse KPIs, labor as a percent of sales, quick visualizations of inventory health and risks, and other variable costs month-to-month.

Greater Atlanta Area

Assembled dashboards in Excel to present inventory health across dozens of customers with moving forecasts for the president, as well as inter-company actuals vs. budgets within 14 plants for continuous adjustments toward goals.Created and managed forecasts and inventory for a dozen customers across multiple divisions based on history versus current trends, working with customers and distribution centers to ensure we were always in stock but never sitting on a surplus of inventory.Internal inventory planning, dashes and management of IA team during launches and transitions to minimize costs - eliminated 350k in single SKU runouts in 2018 and established a long term plan to reduce an 800k writeoff down to 3k in 2019.

Duluth, Ga

Managed and eliminated Excess Inventory for the financial division, allocating inventory to meet upcoming demand. Identified sources of excess and put additional processes in place to prevent future accrual.Data mining, analysis, and validation to present process restructuring for managed projects, as well as reporting to North American sales leaders to drive sales using excess.Manage cross-team communication, monitoring logistics for inbound inventory and working with sales to develop individualized solutions for unique customer demands.Coaching employees in job tasks, Excel functionality, and data warehouse queries in order to streamline efforts and strive for continuous improvement, both individually and as a team.

Norcross, Georgia

Part time position while in school; aside from the typical sales and business aspects it gave me an appreciation for the importance of self-image, especially in its greater connection to a business's image.Maintained brand standards through merchandising, as well as training employees in cross-department sales.

Atlanta, Georgia

Buford, Georgia

Buford, Georgia

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Speech Communication And Rhetoric

Activities and Societies: PRSSA

Communication And Media Studies

Activities and Societies: Soccer Team