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Los Angeles, CA, US

New York, US

Responsible for the operational management and growth strategy of the expanding e-commerce business, leading strategy and execution for Paramount Consumer Products’ e-commerce growth through pure play e-commerce retailers, omni channel retailers and third-party marketplace accounts. I will also oversee the creation of a global center-of-excellence and help.

Blackfriars, London, GB

Blackfriars, London, GB

Blackfriars, London, GB

General Manager & Ownership of $200M P&L, responsible for 10+ eCommerce retail accounts and leading an account management team of 3 direct reports. Customer ownership includes Instacart, Shipt, Boxed, Grove, and more. Responsible for developing and leading a best-in class partnership with the Instacart Retail and CPG Brand Management Teams.

Greater Chicago Area, IL, US

General Manager and ownership of a $50M P&L. Leadership responsibility or eCommerce Retail growth at Walmart, Jet, & Sam's eCommerce for Mondelez International for North America.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

Lead development of the overall omnichannel marketing strategy and execution for Toys, Entertainment; lead Entertainment Property marketing strategy and content development for Walmart.com; drive strategic partnerships and planning with suppliers throughout the company through strong cross-functional collaboration to achieve business goals and KPI’s; lead.

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Lead category strategy development, category management, and consumer insight processes across the Supervalu enterprise by effectively translating information into actionable insights that will drive the business.
• Developed a dinner aisle re-invention strategy utilizing two big ideas for Pantry: A Dinner Aisle Solution and Ultra Convenience Microwave Meals strategy that redesigned and flowed the aisle by need state to increase.
• Developed category strategies across Dairy, Ethnic, and Pantry categories.

New York, NY, US

• Deliver business-issue oriented analysis of panel data to positively influence key customer growth through increased presence on shelf at retail.
• Identified and presented sales strategies for Walmart, Kroger, and Publix field teams to unlock distribution opportunities in frozen food categories that resulted in incremental sku placements of $6MM-$20MM per.
• Conducted sku optimization analyses at the brand, manufacturer, and category levels across retailers to highlight incrementality and identify opportunities of $1MM - $30MM.
• Collaborated with Category Development Managers to create compelling sales defense decks/category overviews to gain and support category captaincies across top retail customers.

New York, NY, US

• Developed on-trend business strategies to maximize sales, minimize markdowns, and effectively manage a $40 million dollar annual business.
• Exceeded Annual Sales plan by 4% by partnering with vendors and carefully managing markdowns, receipts, inventory flow, and in-stock position.
• Negotiated successful seasonal discount strategy with vendors on a regular basis to consistently improve gross margin and exceed annual goal by 3%.
• Forecasted financial components based on projection of future events and current trends, enabling a 30% reduction in markdowns.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Managed sales floor presentation and four department managers of Health/Beauty, Market, Electronics, Toys with annual sales of + $18 MM.
• Ensured the successful planning and execution for “Back-to-College” season, achieving $1.6 MM in sales during a two-week peak time frame, which was $.5MM above sales plan.
• Coordinated store remodel efforts by planning the implementation of total store transitions while maintaining the store’s daily operations, and led the store to annual sales increase of 5%.
• Established plans to execute store transitions by ensuring 95% of our planograms were set on-time thereby driving great presentation and profitability.
• Promoted to ETL – Guest Experience for exceeding expectations on all operational aspects and store-wide changes that led to best guest survey scores in the district.

Washington, DC, US

• Audited Service Record Books of over 100 Enlisted Personnel and Officers and successfully passed inspection from Headquarters Marine Corps
• Delegated responsibilities to three Marines for annual Auditing
• Appointed as platoon leader of 25 Marines during Marine Combat Training

Racine, WI, US

• Completed an in-depth analysis of competitive products using Target Info Retriever and Nielsen
• Analyzed 3 major businesses by utilizing sales trends and statistics to evaluate the current competitive environment
• Solved distribution opportunities at Target by analyzing data and trends of over for +100 products and recommending solutions