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Itasca, Illinois, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Accountable for achieving sales, profit, and budget goals annually.
• Extensive knowledge of the customer, product category, competition, and market.
• Developed and maintained relationships with key customer contacts, including merchandising, supply chain, replenishment,.com and marketing.
• Monitored competitive placement in the market and provided Marketing updates and recommendations to ensure Henkel brands are succeeding at retail.
• Actively worked with internal support teams to ensure the customer's business was being served well and the brands were in a position to excel. This included customer care, marketing, supply chain, etc.
• Analyzed data to monitor performance and develop action plans where needed. This included customer POS, internal financial metrics, replenishment & promotional orders, internal & external forecasts, maintaining.

Atlanta, Georgia

• Ownership over the sourcing operations for the hard parts categories (categories include fuel pumps, ride control, radiators, bearings and more).
• Oversee Asian sourcing office activities as we conducted product line reviews.
• Effectively communicated new supplier strategies associated with moving programs away from incumbent suppliers. Facilitated the larger conversations between merchandising, supply chain, operations, and field level.
• Developed new financial analysis strategies that allowed for the quick review of new opportunities to determine the viability of a program.
• Was able to delivery over $5M in procurement gains in a single fiscal year.
• Supported the change management process as two divisions were combined and the sourcing group was restructured.

Oak Brook, Illinois

• Ownership over the housewares department, ranging from personal care item to full size appliances.
• Established a good relationship with the vendors, and created long term partnerships that will benefit ACE over the coming years.
• Effectively communicated a 5-year strategy to leadership.
• Determine category selection and goals for assortments (both B2B and B2C)
• Lead wholesale and retail assortment and merchandising aides with category management and store development
• Understand and drive regional needs of category and build into category deliverables on an ongoing basis

Oak Brook, Illinois

• Had ownership over the Pool category, Halloween, Christmas Trees and stands, AC’s, Fans, Dehum, and Heating categories.
• Have completed 3 line reviews, and 3 assortment updates, including 3 trips to China.
• Established a good relationship with the vendors, and created long term partnerships that will benefit ACE over the coming years.
• Displayed proficiencies in comparing domestic to import programs and promptly making decisions to better the assortment. Moved past the “old” way of doing business to make sure our stores are prepared.
• Displayed characteristics of a self-starter. When moving to a new category I learned the product, executed a review, planned and designed a show booth.
• Effectively communicated a 3-year strategy to leadership.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Responsible for vendor and product onboarding along with maintaining core programs by working with cross-functional business partners throughout the organization including Visual Merchandising, Merchandising.
• Traveled abroad to assist with the execution of product line reviews
• Focus on providing accurate and timely communication to ensure that global sourcing programs are implemented within the specified timeline, budget, and quality standards.
• Used independent thinking and judgment to analyze complex situations involving cross-functional partners and global sourcing office.
• Determined solutions and course of action necessary to resolve issues, including supply issues and transitions to new products.
• Made timely decisions and provided recommendations on matters related to the successful implementation of global sourcing programs.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Manage four Private Label Brands manufactured by global suppliers within Asia, Europe and India.
• Oversee new product and vendor on-boarding in the procurement and merchandising of décor, storage/organization.
• Established execution timelines and expectations with Merchants, Product Development Merchants, suppliers and cross functional teams, and managed them through to their completion.
• Partnered with Fulfillment, IPR & IL through the planning and delivery phases.
• Managed the weekly calls with the suppliers and sourcing team to ensure supplier was in line with their commitments.
• Analyzed proformas, sales results, margins and turns for various import products.

• Managed all “on-boarding” activities including: factory Audits, Product and packaging Testing, Merchandising artwork, Supplier and SKU set-up and new order generation
• Provided pro-forma analysis and reporting for new import and private branded products and programs.
• Trained cross functional teams on Import Operations processes
• Displayed clear and effective communication with Manager, Merchants and PDM’s
• Worked to gather and refine requirements for a new software implementation package to replace current systems
• Became a subject matter expert for the Global Sourcing team in regards to onboarding process and IDM data entry

Create and implement general and specific order strategies for a vast array of product for all 1,976 Home Depot stores nationwideUtilize MS Excel and Access daily to analyze and interpret data to make business recommendations to help achieve better in-stock metricsCreate custom ad-hoc reports used to manage the dehumidifier business Participated in early.

Instructed students in remedial mathematics from grade levels 5 to 9Stimulated interest in mathematics with innovative teaching techniques, such as real life application problems and hands on instructionAssessed and provided individualized lesson plans to accommodate each student’s specific needs, including progression testing to measure the students.