• Bringing happiness and joy to customers of all ages.• Hunting down the nostalgic and rare favorites of years gone by.• Bringing in the best of today’s confection and snack innovation, creating a unique experience each time you visit.• Creating private label assortments that mirror what our customers love most about Cracker Barrel, to enjoy in the comfort of their homes.• Curating fun and exciting seasonal assortments for kids and adults alike.

• Limited basis, collaborative consulting.• Ideation and insights on customer account objectives, projects and product development.• Account strategic profiling and directional insights.• New account acquisitions.

• Manage all aspects of the assortment creation process, beginning with strategic plan, product curation and end of life cycle planning. • Responsible for collaborating with planning partners to build strategic category plans, showing improvement in sales, margin and inventory turn.• Manage assortment planning, product development and selection, vendor negotiation, and marketing presentation plans.• Analyze and react to in-season deviations and identifies opportunities for correction or improvement. Reviews sales, KPI’s, vendor profitability, and inventory positioning to identify drivers for improved performance. • Work closely with management, planning, presentation teams to significantly improve the profitability and overall vision of the assortment implementation.• Foster close collaboration with planning partners to create accurate forecasts for receipt flow, sales and markdowns. • Produce analysis to track selling, vendor profitability, aged inventory, and identify key trends to maximize opportunities in the assortment.• Work closely with vendor community and agent partners to identify and negotiate key product needs and development opportunities, including cost, margin maintenance and production terms.• Participated in over 10 overseas markets and product development trips from 2013-2019, representing and working on product for all categories in the company.• Concentrated on diversification efforts within the vendor matrix to create a more balanced portfolio of sourcing.• Worked alongside company leaders to onboard the company's first DDI sourcing effort.

• Responsible for building strong assortments to accomplish financial objectives of the business.• Partnered with planners to complete accurate forecasts, evaluating sales, markdowns and receipts.• Produced analysis to track selling, vendor profitability, aged inventory, and identify key trends to maximize opportunities in the assortment.• Led negotiations with vendor community to improve product assortment and profitability.• Planned, evaluated and reacted to promotional and markdown performance.• Created collaborative relationships with merchandise presentation team to ensure proper visual integrity and integration within the total store’s assortment.• Worked closely with vendor partners to develop and roll out new items which would become company top items, exceeding the internal benchmark of $1M items.

• Independently reported to DMM as category manager. Established collaborative relationship to build strength in business acumen and show great proficiency in business analysis, product development and merchandising. • Collaborated with DMM and Planner to create strong sales and margin plans, including significant comp growth plans.• Developed key vendor relationships to improve product positioning in the market sector.• Worked closely with cross-functional teams to roll out the company’s first “Shoppe” designation, producing significant comp growth in the following twelve-month period.• Collaborated with planning partners to sustain new “Core” performance metrics which created assortment consistency and sales growth.

• Sku setup and PO creation, management and tracking.• Monitor and tracks on order details, communicating variations to vendors.• Sample management and revision communication with vendor partners.• Data management as related to pricing, promotional events, packaging.• Assist Buyer in monthly line review preparations, including line edits, negotiation communication with vendors and communication of necessary changes needed.• Prepare and distribute analysis as directed.• General administrative duties as directed by the Buyer.

• Initial allocation to stores through end of life management, including replenishment.• Partner with Buyers & Planners to map out product allocation strategies.• Recommending store volume groups and rankings.• Worked closely with Planning heads to start initial “Core” item/program planning for replenishment orders.