Christal Tuller Warrick Email & Phone Number

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Tampa, Fl

In house Category Manager at the Regional CVS office.This is a hybrid position that combines sales and category management. The objective is to support the regional buyer and provide data analysis to achieve optimal category performance. This role allows for all past knowledge, education and experience to come together in one job responsibility; Drawing Sets, Pricing, Data (proprietary and market) analysis and Problem solving.

Kroger TeamCollaborates with colleagues, within CWUS and other companies, as well as the Kroger Buyers to create, develop, and implement a streamline process for division centralization in a committee formatModifies store sets using Apollo, a software for Retail Store Space Planning, based on rules and formats determined and agreed upon by the committee, to increase store sales and improve Kroger customers' shopping experienceProvides market analysis and key insights to manage the category and supply the Buyer with industry knowledge to assist in the development and growth of their wine business

Sam’s Club TeamWorked with various levels of Divisions and System Programs to aid in the multi-faceted aspects of the category and businessDrew store sets to determine the best product mix for optimal category productivityAnalyzed sales data from a manifold of sources, including IRI, to support the customerDelivered weekly and monthly team reports to evaluate product performance

Wal-Mart TeamAnalyzed weekly Sales, Inventory, and Pricing reports for internal and external customersManaged over 250 distributors in 36 states for over 1900 Wal-Mart stores to ensure pricing is transmitted via the VMP Portal and product is received at store levelDeveloped standard operating procedures, guidelines, and processes to automate the flow of information and data to and from all customersWorked with CWUS IT as a project manager on Wal-Mart Streamline Authorization Process to automate pricing and to provide a "Best in Class" system for the customersCommunicated all new stores, set changes, and new items to sales and distributorsExecuting daily ad-hoc tasks to resolve distributor inquires and support the CWUS sales teams

Provided a single source contact for sales and the customerManaged over 10 million dollars worth of business for top 5 accountsProcessed bid and proposal requests for pricingPublished rates, fuel, accessorial, and mileage programsEnsured loads were rated and billed correctlyAudited and resolved all payment discrepancies

Coordinated with sales and pricing to transmit proposed rates, accessorial and fuel information to current and potential customersProvided quality service through efficient, daily communication and offer services to meet customer requestsProcessed raw data through excel and EPREP (Specialty Software) to provide the customer with rates for service request from salesImplemented all contractual agreements created by sales and approved by pricing for customersDiscovered and solved publication problems, with direct contact to sales staff, preventing future such occurrencesVerified correct amounts for charges on provided services and resolved discrepancies caused by incorrect payment of customer on invoices