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Kansas City, MO, US

Shawnee, Kansas, United States

Overland Park, KS

Primary Purchasing Contact/Buyer for multiple vendors. Work for the timely arrival of ideal inventory levels of phone accessories to Sprint Retail, Sprint Dealers, Sprint Direct Ship to Consumers, and other channels of distribution.

Overland Park, KS.

Lead Analyst acting for the timely evaluation, identification. and execution of initial load in and end of life removal of product flow within all channels of distribution for accessory SKUs

Kansas City, MO

Primary lead for all analytics that drove understanding and change for all seasons and formats for Hallmark product in both CVS Pharmacy and Walgreens. Primary contact for key understandings for both internal and external partners.

Primary lead merchant driving cross functional teams to deliver program / assortment development to key business partners. including Commercialization, Visual Merchandising, Planning and Allocation, Demand and Inventory Planning, Space and Assortment Planning, MARCOM (catalog), and Sales

Lead Analyst for all of Hallmark’s Gold Crown network for Gift Wrap, Stationery, Invitations and the Party business, influencing assortment mix, marketing, and deployment to retail.

• Participated in the creation of a retail entity within a wholesale company, including development of a report structure, allocation logic, strategic goals, and merchandising plans to drive sales and profits.
• Manage the entire life cycle of product categories to maximize sales, turn, GMROI, and profits. Includes all aspects of strategizing and logistics.
• Work with merchandising team to maximize sales and profits for 365 stores by creating key assortments that leverage the store’s… Show more
• Work with merchandising team to maximize sales and profits for 365 stores by creating key assortments that leverage the store’s demographics and selling trends.
• Created and tested a new auto replenishment tool that incorporates dynamic modeling to replace the static model we were using.
• Developed and worked within the Merchandise Planning area, developing department and category level Open to Buys and budgets, creating forecast sales profiles,and developing replenishment methodology to allocate.

Manage inventory flow for a major retailer utilizing reorder point calculation logic and profile creation/maintenance