Dalton Ayers Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

Carrboro, North Carolina, United States

• Managed alcohol inventory for 67 stores in North Carolina and Virginia, communicating with over 45 domestic suppliers and distributors to ensure consistent delivery, order fulfillment, and high sales of over 300 items.• Monitored stock levels at three warehouses with ~$1.25 million in inventory to limit age related write offs and ensure availability of core and promotional products. • Ordered weekly containers of products from Europe worth $100,000-$200,000 in sales. • Reduced aged inventory by 21% in three months through write offs, promotions, and more accurate ordering.• Oversaw the opening of six new stores by closely coordinating with suppliers and distributors to ensure sufficient inventory on opening day. • Researched the causes of low sales of domestic wines, presented findings to senior leadership and worked with distributors and internal supply chain teams to improve availability, leading to increased sales. Findings from this project led to improved internal and external processes and increased revenue and private label brand awareness.• Presented KPIs to senior leadership on a weekly basis; created and managed data dashboards. • Reconciled differences between agreed upon prices and invoices; overhauled our pricing maintenance process, reducing time spent by 60% and increasing accuracy.

• Projected demand for 55 varied produce items, worth $850,000 in weekly sales, to keep a fresh inventory of product available in warehouses for distribution to over 170 stores through sales and inventory data. • Managed relationships with 8 external suppliers to ensure availability, quality, and timely delivery of product. • Generated insights into product quality, sell-through, and market share by using data-driven analytical tools. • Created, updated, and distributed sales reports to analyze sales figures to project future volume demand.• Provided biweekly oral reports to senior leadership on my item’s KPIs, while comparing to competitor’s products. • Communicated with buyers on supplier performance, pain points, write off risks, and changes to the assortment. • Communicated with internal departments regarding product availability and delivery.

Arlington, Virginia, United States

• Managed the daily process of compiling pricing changes for 300 produce items in over 170 stores and sent a memo to all US Lidl stores to update prices. • Updated and distributed a weekly memo to highlight new items and ensure proper quality control of items to avoid unnecessary write offs in stores. Sent the memo to the CEO to ensure updates to items are communicated. • Improved the process of pricing distribution by partially automating the processes, resulting in an approximate 20% decrease in time spent on the deliverable. • Ran and reformatted various weekly sales and item stock reports for team members to track assortment performance, including % of total store sales per item and last time of sale of item per store. • Translated communications from the international HQ from German to English and sent weekly reports to international colleagues. • Led the input of promotional data as a key user of a data system and ensured price tag accuracy.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Ensured smooth programmatic and financial closeout of a two-year long program consisting of 2,000 events across all 50 states events to promote German American relations.• Worked in a professional bilingual environment of native and fluent German speakers. • Responsibilities included budget and invoice reconciliation, event coordination and support, merchandise shipment, translation of technical documents and social media, image and data management. • Represented a Wunderbar project at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, the largest conference in the industry, promoting and sharing information to interested teachers.

• Worked in a bilingual environment of German and English with speakers of various levels. • Analyzed five years of student demographic data and presented my findings and suggestions to the head of North American operations.• Managed customer email queries regarding language learning programs and public events.• Co-facilitated testing of German proficiency and cultural events hosted by the Institute for up to 100 guests.

Friday Harbor, Washington

• Trained five to eight new guides in survival skills, interpersonal skills, basic regional history and ecology to develop guide capacity.• Taught variously experienced kayakers for four hours to five-day camping trips totaling 150-175 trips per season.• Managed kayak and safety supply inventory to ensure a smooth transition between trips.• Obtained a working knowledge of the geological and natural history of the San Juan archipelago, as well as of the resident wildlife to share with guests through attending various skills workshops.