Daniel Baka Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, Tx, Us

• Responsible for Buying and Allocating Inventory for Petco's Owned Brands & Imports in Consumables• Supplying Product to USA, Canada, & Mexico writing $5M in orders weekly for 3 Countries• Working with Wholesale, Military Bases, Animal Shelters, CVS's, Lowes, & Canadian Tires• Increasing COGS for 13 Private Owned Brand Vendors• Collaborating with Domestic & Import Vendors across 7 Countries • Connecting and building relationships with other divisions within the company including Sourcing• Saved the Company $1M by properly setting up DCs and rerouting SKUs to certain DCs geographically

• Responsible for Buying and Allocating Inventory to the company for over 30 Known Vendors • Increased COGS for 7 Vendors in 4 months while Quadrupling 1 putting them in the top 10 on Neilson• Saved the Company $500K uncovering issues I discovered with incorrect QOHs and incorrect scanning• Saved the Company $1M in finding pricing discrepancies causing a huge loss in Margin• Perform and Review Daily reporting with the team creating templates and faster processes saving time• Increase stores sales by insuring they are receiving enough product to grow and POGs are set correctly• Reduced extra labor at the PCCs by being proactive and running checks ahead of time before launches

San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Responsible for Thousands of SKUs in over 3 Shops for all Stores in the Company• Created Buys & Orders for all Resets, Refreshes, & Promos so New Launches were successful• Limited Clearance Liabilities on Exiting SKUs by $1.8 Million by getting product sold in advance• Worked with CF Teams on Merchandise, Space, Floor Planning, Sourcing, & Transportation•Monitored all SKU Inquiries & Movement from our Outbound Teams of DCs down to the PCCs •Project Managed Monthly Programs and supported other Teams with New Improvements•Admin of multiple WP Groups providing information, creating engagement, and providing solutions

San Antonio, Texas, United States

• Responsible for bringing New Ideas and Implementing them by updating outdated practices• Presented at Yearly Summits across the US my new ideas and enhancements we made as a team• Executed and helped Co-Lead one of the largest projects in petco history for Leadership• Project Managed 3 huge company updates still used today and Trained over 26K Employees• Connected and built relationships and trust again between the stores and the field

San Antonio, Texas, United States

• Responsible for Territories to ensure we are capitalizing profits while minimizing unnecessary expenses• Perform tasks to help stores succeed in multiple categories and improve the stores Optimization• Collaborate with partners on new ideas to improve the business and profitability on a greater scale• Plan and execute new tasks to further grow the business and sales dollars• Increase Proactiveness when it came to Disasters to get product in the hands before a disaster

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Responsible for the replenishment of inventory to Petco stores across the country and Mexico• Perform tasks to help stores succeed in multiple categories and improve the stores sales• Collaborate with partners on new ideas to improve the business and profitability• Create new ideas and methods to help improve sales company wide while finding savings of $2M• Increase stores sales by insuring they are receiving enough product to grow their business

Tyler, Dallas, Fort Worth, Wichita Falls, Texas Area

• District Captain for 2 Districts while assisting the DM's & RM's• Responsible for primary location, including the sales floor and grooming salon• Finished with Top Promoter Scores & Top 10 in the company• Performed all store HR tasks including hiring, performance reviews, evaluations, trainings, & firings• Collaborated with partners on new ideas to improve the business at the Store Level• Ordered products to keep up with demand and improve sales month over month• Budgeted store expenses for the partners and the animals• Listened and resolve any team member complaints or issues and build from them• Prioritized and make the schedule for the entire store and grooming to meet the needs of payroll• Taught and coached all partners to further themselves and achieve the next level• Ensured all tasks and duties are accomplished in a timely manner• Recruited to go help open, hire and train new partners for new stores and go help remodel stores • Connected and built relationships with the community and adoption groups

Dallas, Fort Worth, Wichita Falls, Texas Area

2nd Job·Promoted & Educated people on the New LSBBT system by using light speed methods·Diagnosed line troubles for an area or areas by running series of tests on the line ·Worked with techs out in the field by determining solutions and how to fix the lines·Contract Ended

Wichita Falls, Texas Area

2nd Job·Brought on to help the company find ways to improve its pet food line for the whole company·Created new planograms, new promotions, and ideas to help sell the products·Worked with buyers and brands to find the right lines of food to acquire to succeed ·Profited within the first 3 months of the new revisions and the stores continued great success

Sheppard Afb, Wichita Falls, Texas Area

2nd Job·Maintained a line of 50 top selling brands by properly Ordering, Stocking, & Building their Brands. ·Built relationships with the Staff & Vendors.·Doubled Sales in the first year.·Contract Ended.