Dylan Pyne Email & Phone Number

Edison, New Jersey, United States

• Working with the General Merchandise Division to make strategic recommendations based on financial analysis to meet divisional reporting, drive sales, and reduce operating costs.
• Performing annual budgets, financial forecasting, scenario planning, and sensitivity analysis related to Wakefern's Jamesburg facility.
• Analyzing P&L's and preparing weekly operational reporting including sales, productivity, and CPP.
• Overseeing inventory reconciliations, warehouse damage reporting, warehouse billing analysis, and funding reporting.
• Measuring, interpreting, and communicating the financial aspects of the Wakefern Divisional Strategic plans to leadership and members.

Edison, New Jersey, United States

• Managed a team of 6 analysts to support the Center Store, Produce, Meat, and Seafood Procurement divisions.
• Built an annual funding budget of $52M, comprised of 146+ vendors and allocated across 372+ stores.
• Invoiced 500 lump sums to meet the budget and worked with Accounting monthly to distribute store credits.
• Assigned and worked on 200+ RFPs, projects in which vendors bid for business, saving $12M in 2023 by identifying optimal vendor partners based on cost, logistics, and quality.
• Compared vendor cited cost increases and current market trends to save $2M across 291 vendors reviewed between 2022 and 2024.
• Built a monthly KPI scorecard for the top 50 grossing vendors, primarily to understand which vendors are decreasing in funding as a percent of their cost of goods sold.

Edison, New Jersey, United States

• Provided data driven assortment analysis for Center Store Procurement divisions.
• Constructed playbooks and strategic one pagers containing key performance metrics that enabled Procurement divisions to negotiate vendor agreements.
• Worked with Procurement and Accounting to bill vendors lump sum invoices quarterly.
• Forecast expected contract performance based on historical movement and tracked expiring contracts for Procurement Managers to renew.
• Created 10 Request for Proposals (RFPs) and analyzed results to recommend optimal vendor partners.
• Coordinated with vendors, corresponding Wakefern Vice Presidents, and legal team to formalize agreements.

State College, Pennsylvania Area

• Followed a regimented daily schedule of 7:00-9:30am practices and 5:00-6:00pm conditioning sessions.
• Partook in weight training sessions with the Penn State Wrestling team’s conditioning coach.
• Frequently traveled upwards of 4 hours to other colleges for weekend competitions in which overnight hotel stays were common.
• Competed and supported fellow teammates under the scrutiny of hundreds of audience members and expectant coaching staff.
• Partook in community outreach activities for the Fencing team and helped organize the Fencing Team’s participation in THON, the largest student run charity group in the country.
• Held to a higher standard as a student athlete by undergoing requirements like undergoing regular drug testing and maintaining a strong gpa.

Jackson, New Jersey

• Organized the daily work schedules and break times of 15 games employees at a time.
• Assisted the manager of games in daily park operations by addressing customer problems at 30 game stands ranging from broken machines to employee errors in a park containing 58 attractions.
• Counted and recorded the amounts of money at each game stand, replenishing each employee’s supply of about $200 when necessary.
• Managed an office with a safe containing $40K+ by documenting the sum of money and closing down the office for the night after an 8 hour work shift.
• Operated a cash register and corresponding computer program to sell tickets and track memberships for a park that nets over 3M visitors per year.
• Enthusiastically pitched a variety of membership offers to customers by describing the potential benefits in an unobtrusive manner.

Hamilton, New Jersey

• Operated a cash register and corresponding computer program to sell tickets and memberships for hundreds of daily customers under an 8-hour work schedule.
• Performed transactions with cash, visa cards, promotional coupons, membership passes, and cell phone applications.
• Managed data base system for AMC Stubs memberships and assisted customers with navigating their online Stubs account.
• Cleaned the seats and removed the trash from 25 theater rooms, while strictly following the show times schedule that detailed when movies end and begin.
• In charge of stock maintenance for soda, lids, condiments, and napkins by accessing storage facilities with boxed supplies.
• Assisted theater patrons with finding correct seating, and set up special audio and visual devices for disabled guests.

Tri-state Area

• Refereed 7 Fencing competitions over the span of 5 years, both regional and national.
• Well versed in the rules Fencing, having been officially certified for 2 of the 3 weapon types via a written and practical exam.
• Assigned a group of 7 competitors to run at a time, in which I refereed their matches and recorded their scores.
• Competitions last anywhere from 4-10 hours depending on the size of the event and how spread out the matches are.
• Total competition participants ranged from about 15 to 200, with events typically taking place in large convention centers.
• Composed under public scrutiny, patient with unsatisfied competitors and parents, and properly recorded scores with the utmost integrity.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics

Smeal College Business Fundamentals Certificate

Completed prerequisite courses in accounting, economics, statistics, and business law that lay the foundation for the core courses in.

High School

Activities and Societies: 4 year member of the High School Varsity Fencing Team and 2 year Men's foil captain.