Diana Heggeness Email & Phone Number

Suffield, Ct, Us

Suffield, Connecticut, United States

Suffield, Connecticut

Suffield, Connecticut

• Supported two National Account Managers with combined revenue of 20% of total Domestic Sales for 2015.• Customer Base includes National Accounts, Wholesale Clubs, Sporting Goods Retailers, and Farm & Fleet, Hardware Co-Ops and independent hardware and sporting goods dealers.• Design and Maintain all planograms used in The Home Depot stores based on POS trends and shopper insights.• Design optimal planograms based on product research, consumer shopping behavior, and retailer strategy and shelf capacity for account presentations and tier 2 accounts. • Maintain customer documents and coordinated between external and internal customers for processing.• Collaborates cross-functionally with Finance and Customer Marketing to develop fact-based strategies to meet revenue and profitability goals for both Sentry Safe and our retail partners.• Work closely with internal teams to maintain pricing and profitability of sales promotion.• Coordinate and prepare all non-corporate trade shows for dealer/customer specific shows.• Travel to customer facing meetings, events and trade shows as required.• Develop and quote pricing and programs on new customer leads.• Contribute to the preparation of customer line review process. • Maintain strong relationships with key contacts at the accounts, internally and with our manufacturer’s representatives.• Troubleshoot and Resolve customer issues.• Responsive and fast turnaround on actionable items.• Willingness to work outside normal hours to meet customer requests.• Decisive and takes charge when NAM is not available.• Collaborated to develop a law enforcement program and was responsible for selling and managing the project which brought in $113K of incremental revenue.• Assist in the monthly collaborative forecast with the NAM, customer marketing analyst and director of forecasting. • Provide Point of Sales analysis and other ad hoc reports.• Maintain and use all customer portal data

 Managed monthly balanced forecasts for key accounts such as Lowes, Home Depot, Sam’s Club & BJ’s based on the customer on hand inventory and POS and Targeted Shipments. • Managed all other accounts forecasts based on trend, promotional volume and seasonality.• Prepared Monthly Forecast Reports for Mid-Level VPS&O meetings.• Prepared Monthly Forecast Accuracy Reports. • Maintained Dream Level Forecast Accuracy.• Involved with the system integration from legacy system to SAP-APO. • Split time between Sales forecast Analyst and Business Analyst for SAP demand planning.• Responsible for APO/BW system integrity, maintenance and processing of weekly and monthly jobs.• Troubleshoot system issues and worked closely with IT to resolve issues. • Trained new users and developed end user guides

 Assisted in the operation & maintenance of the G/L systems to provide the basis for accurate & timely financial statements. Month End procedures such as journal entries, review of weekly AP voucher registers, AR accruals & reversals Reconciled all bank statements Prepared Sales and Use Tax returns Assist with the year end audit  Participated on a cross functional team to prepare and present the 5 year strategic plan

 Prepared Bank Deposits Applied checks to customers’ accounts General office duties as required AP bank statement reconciliations Petty Cash reconciliations

Bs, Accounting

Accounting And Business/Management