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California, United States

Orange County, California, United States

Category Manager at Diageo as the category advisor for Albertsons/Safeway’s Southern California account, specializing in driving category growth. Proactively coordinate daily efforts to bolster growth and enhance collaboration within the account through insights-driven recommendations. Conduct comprehensive category assessment, planogram evaluations, and assortment optimizations to maximize Albertsons/Safeway market share viability while fostering an enduring partnership. Experienced work in gathering, synthesizing, and analyzing diverse data sources, including internal customer data, syndicated data, and research findings. Adept at effectively communicating complex analyses and findings to client and Diageo internal teams, facilitating informed decision-making and strategic initiatives. Daily practice delivering tailored reporting and compelling research to both the client and Diageo internal stakeholders. Regular usage of syndicated and panel data services including Nielsen, Symphony Retail AI, Nuqleous ShelfIQ, JDA, Numerator & Microsoft Suite, to inform decision-making and drive strategic initiatives

Orange County, California, United States

Sales Finance Analyst for Republic National Distributing Company’s California Finance Leadership Team. Assisted daily reporting to the RNDC California and RNDC National leadership team(s), achieving financial goals and budgets, and providing financial support and analysis. Analyzed monthly data for the California Finance, Sales, and Portfolio teams, and determining causes for increases and decreases in Aged Inventory, Gross Profit, and Accounts Receivable by providing applicable recommendations to leaders to increase the overall financial growth for RNDC California. Project lead for all monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial reviews, business planning, and strategic and category performance reporting. Responsible for supplier contracts' financial compliance and confirming proper bill-back percentages for supplier incentives. Managed, validated, and distributed all Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure program effectiveness. Owner and validator of the execution of weekly and monthly KPI analysis of appointed strategic brands for the sales and portfolio teams' daily financial and sales reporting through Oracle, IRI, & MicroStrategy program services.

Orange County, California, United States

Sr. Category Analyst for the Young's Market Company Kroger National Team, managing the Spirits & Wine categories. Daily work with IRI Unify Office, Kroger Gateway, Numerator, and several syndicated or panel data services. Responsible for leading the strategic design and maintenance of category intelligence applications. Develop planned and organized presentations, including industry information, cross-merchandising ideas, and data on in-store problems and conditions. Research and resolve technical problems. Perform primary research and insights, conclusions and implications based on relevant trends and data.

Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

Category Manager for the United States & Canada corporate team. Manage the Cold Beverage, Salty Snacking, Impulse Snacking, Yogurt, Confectionary and Cereal categories, promotions and space planning for all micro- markets, convenience stores, vending, cafe spaces and branded concept spaces in the United States & Canada. Daily work with several syndicated or panel data services and intelligence, research, POS analysis & experience software. Daily research with large databases of consumer shopping information. Perform primary research and insights, conclusions and implications based on relevant trends and data. Drive growth by providing shopper insights to bolster marketing and promotional plans using multiple insights databases. Certified in space planning (JDA) for all micro-markets, convenience stores, vending, cafe spaces and branded concept spaces. Utilize several syndicated and panel data services (IRI, AC Nielson, SPINS, Datassential, Gongos, IPSOS & Qualtrics).

Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Senior Buying Assistant for the French, Australian & High Volume Domestic corporate wine buying teams. Assisted in the buying process including item setup, pricing, assortment, merchandising, and promotion management. In addition, typical support duties include data maintenance, category management for 17+ categories, and meeting prep & coordination. Responsible for creating and maintaining tracking sheets, compiling and completing analysis, supporting multiple projects for senior buyers and category managers while managing project deadlines.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States