Working hand-in-hand with Category Management, Insights, Sales, Marketing, Brand & Innovation, and Strategic Pricing teams across the Consumer Packaged Goods industry to make smarter and quicker assortment, forecasting, pricing decisions, to drive cost savings and to improve the competitive position across retailers.

• Worked on a team to execute the vendor funded demo & sample program across over 1400 Petco stores nationwide. Worked with demo brand’s shopper marketing team to understand goals and objectives of its demo cycle; Created a plan to meet the set objectives, including coupon and sample strategies, in-store promotional offers, and partner training and engagement tactics.• Estimated demo sales lifts and work with merchant and inventory partners to ensure adequate inventory levels to support the additional sales lifts for brands on demo. Set demo sales budgets for each store; create weekly field dashboard to track store performanc for store and district leaders.• Presented demo results, including both sales and customer analytics, to vendor partners and internal stakeholders and make recommendations for future demo partnerships.

• Set business plan objectives and goals for sales, margin dollars, and margin rate, while ensuring the goals and priorities are aligned with category strategic plan. • Drive the assortment and execute the development and implementation of new products; analyze sales trends and market factors to build planograms and forecast the success of merchandise items across Petco, Unleashed by Petco and Petco.com banners.• Negotiate profitable product costs, clearance funding and contract terms with vendors to achieve sales and margin goals.• Partner with Inventory Management, Assortment Planning and Logistics to ensure proper product allocation and inventory levels in both stores and distribution centers. • Partner with Marketing, Partner Engagement & VMSD Centers of Excellence to ensure brand messages to pet parents (i.e., CRM, Circular, in-store demo, partner training, in-store signage, etc.) are consistent with the in-store customer experience.• Regularly review competitive pricing. Work with Pricing Team to implement pricing strategies, communicate changes to stores, and ensure all activities comply and are conducted in accordance with international, federal, state and local laws, regulations and ordinances.• Establish and maintain strategic relationships with all internal and external stakeholders including Petco management, cross-functional teams, internal business partners and vendors.

Analyst for one of PETCO's largest Natural food vendors• Developed and managed a team of 5 Analysts for our largest vendors of Natural Food/Consumables.• Provided weekly merchandise sales and inventory analysis to both internal and external partners and make recommendations to drive sales, improve profitability, and identify potential risks and opportunities. • Performed regular analysis of PALS database to examine consumer household trends and analyzed merchandise affinities, defection, attachment, & canibalization rates and trends.• Tracked new SKU performance and analyze the effectiveness of new product launches.• Analyzed the impact of circular, direct mail, PALS, and television promotions through the calculation of sales lifts, margin profitability, and household data.• Designed and implemented tests and provide statistical analyses through the use of Applied Predictive Technologies (APT) software to determine the impacts of various strategic business decisions.• Worked in a team-based environment to develop Excel-based dashboard reporting tools for the vendor community.

• Provided tax preparation and tax planning servies for individuals, corporations, partnerships, non profit organizations, estates, and trusts. • Experienced in real estate, family partnerships, small businesses, tax credits, and high net worth individuals.• Performed tax research in effort to provide solutions to complicated tax issues for both corporate and individual clients.

Worked on a team of consultants to identify refund opportunities through reverse audits• Obtained audit data from client from a variety of systems including PeopleSoft, CostPoint, Deltek, SAP, and IDEA.• Performed tax reconciliations using MS Excel and Prepared transactional databases using MS Access• Researched multistate sales and use tax issues.• Corresponded with clients, vendors, and the office of the State Comptroller and Participated in meetings with state auditors to negotiate tax resoutions on behalf of clients.

Developed monthly promotional plans for the local Taco Bell franchise; Engaged student organizations and planned on-campus events for Taco Bell at the University of Tulsa.

• Performed line and production efficiency studies• Presented weekly inventory analysis to the STK-EZE Plant Controller