With the enthusiastic assistance and collaborative support of many people, I am currently responsible for the overall strategy, development, and procedural implementation of promotional programs nationally to all classes of customer trade. Accountable to oversee all the department’s managerial and budgeting requirements as well as researching, analyzing and communicating margin growth opportunities. Responsible to develop and review promotional planning, forecasts, and post-promotional analysis.My most exciting responsibility is to travel to and manage customer orders and promotions for Trade Shows and new distribution center openings.-Promoted to Supplier Relationship Manager - Group Manager, 2014Responsibilities expanded to include project management of Supplier on-boarding specific to mergers and acquisitions and developing standardized operational procedures for off-shelf displays and holiday items across the supply chain for the organization.

In charge of delivering seasonal, turn, and promotional product forecast to procurement team for six individual distribution centers. Projected future out of stocks allowing the business to preemptively manage customer expectation and initiate priority deliveries. Deployed inventory positioning dashboard for Category Management team to outline key performance indicators. Established reporting analyses to assist with vendor negotiations and category reviews.

Liaised with key stakeholders across the organization to gather, translate, and document existing business requirements of their departments in order to provide viable, solution-based process improvements and re-design. Utilized technological advantages to reduce delays caused by manual user repetition.

Duties include troubleshooting customer pricing discrepancies, facilitating customer deductions, coordinating customer monthly discounts, processing EDLP's.