The Purchasing Manager is a critical position, responsible for developing a profitable procurement and purchasing strategy, ensuring seamless inventory flow and access that meets customer demands. This role involves overseeing all aspects of purchasing activities, vendor management, and product portfolio/catalog management. The ideal candidate will be highly detail-oriented, possess excellent negotiation skills, and demonstrate a deep understanding of the pool industry and its related product categories.Top Priorities include:1. Product Strategy2. Procurement Strategy3. Vendor Selection and Management4. Inventory Control5. Merchandising Optimization6. Cost and Pricing Analysis7. Quality Assurance8. Logistics and Shipping Rates9. Budget Management10. Market Research11. Risk Management12. Performance Tracking and Reporting

As the Merchandising Manager, I'm responsible for maximizing the online business through new product set up, while also maximizing online business efforts by optimizing product placement, analyzing traffic patterns, and developing strong partnerships with merchant teams and suppliers.Primary Responsibilities• Manager will be responsible for onboarding new products and for directing the day to day activities of the onboarding team • Provides recommendations, strategy and execution on where and how merchandise should be placed on poolwarehouse.com to maximize product interest, customer experience and conversion to sale.• Leads merchandising efforts of all online products (via the merchandising team.)• Coordinates the visual display and storytelling of the brand of the website.• Develops merchandise testing strategy.• Analyze sales data to understand top sellers, events, and promotions to provide feedback on opportunities and risks.• Analyze traffic patterns to understand customer behavior & shopping patterns. Develop recommendations based upon analysis.• Works with merchandising, planning, operations and marketing teams effectively to plan product calendar and maximize business opportunities.• Review the styling direction of new product images to ensure that customers receive the most helpful and accurate visual depiction of our products• Gather product content (attributes, category, taxonomy) to ensure product is aligned correctly online prior to inventory availability• Identify and navigate new products into site categories, based on product attributes and known customer shopping behaviors. Responsible for site product navigation, as necessary• Drive sales and conversion by creating unique, SEO-rich content via keywords, title tags and meta-descriptions to optimize internal & external search rankings• Ensure correct and proper vendor information in ERP system

Ecommerce and Site Content Specialist at Pool Warehouse for our website Poolwarehouse.com where I work to manage and continue to grow and scale our product listings and availability from 3rd party distributors and suppliers.· Creating and maintaining both in-house inventoried product and 3rd party distributed product listing pages and related landing pages on the site. Ensuring imagery, copy, pricing, placement, cross-sells, and promos are accurate and compelling for our customers. Which can include content creating in areas such as copy and imagery with Photoshop.· Upkeep and management of over 60,000 and growing SKUs and product data in our ERP service that drives the backend of the site as well as the management of the frontend that the customer interacts with on the site.· Managing and planning a small team of 3rd party contracted labor that act as site merchandisers/listing specialists. · Coordinate with Programming and Marketing teams to gather all needed materials and ensure new products are ready on time and accurate for seasonal commerce.· Analyze data and make suggestions to improve conversion rates via in-house analytics as well as google analytics.· Maintain site integrity by executing daily content refreshes, and site audits, working to make the site more user and SEO friendly.· Driving product knowledge for onboarded 3rd party products. For questions that come in via customer service and customer inquires.· Recommending site improvements, updates, and changes necessary for best-in-class merchandising, as well as keeping up and surpassing competitive sites in our particular niche and space.

As a production assistant serving the Twix value stream I help drive positive growth in certain KPI areas such as helping deliver production tonnage or lowering waste output. Which we have done by breaking new records year over year on both lines, while delivering our waste targets. We have effectively turned around the Twix value steam here at the Cleveland site to drive added value and positive growth for the site.This position has added manufacturing operations, quality control, food safety, production control, machine maintenance, and operations experience to me, having worked in both the wrapping and process units.

Worked a temporary position for Randstad at DENSO Manufacturing Athens Tennessee (DMAT). The position was in the Spark Plug department. I developed critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, while gaining experience with hand tools, power tools, and assembly equipment, to drive production up and costs down. Specifically:1. Worked Earth Electrode Welding, operating the machines, and running internal logistics and planing. 2. Worked Taper Cut and Crimping Machines, operating the machines, and doing production planing as well for the particular parts. 3.Worked After Market Packaging, helping to operate the machine, perform light maintenance and trouble shooting, and assisting with production planing as well. 4. Chasing down problems on the assembly lines and ensuring quality parts are being produced and made.5. Also sorting and inspecting work of spark plugs as well.

Worked at McDonald’s after college, where I maintained high standards of customer service during high-volume, fast-paced operations., and developed the knowledge of how to run a restaurant or any business in a fast paced environment.

*Staffed the IT office providing technical support to faculty, staff, and students with desktop, peripheral, and software support and troubleshooting. Mostly dealing with Tier 1 and sometimes Tier 2 technical support issues with little or no supervision.*Maintained and monitored two 20+ user high tech classrooms providing support and active directory management.*Maintained and monitored a 24/7 computer lab*Development of a temporary computer lab consisting of 20+ Mac computers and maintaining the lab’s operating images and performing patching as needed.*Continual inventory management of technology supplies and equipment alongside of deploying loaner equipment for faculty, staff, and students.*Achieved continual praise from faculty, staff, and students on service provided, along with praise from my supervisor as well.*Helped spearhead the transition into a new state of the art multimillion dollar building called LeChase Hall.