Alexis Gordon Email & Phone Number

Broomfield, Colorado, United States

• Responsible for owning the Happy Family Organics business partnership with Target HQ partnering on a joint business plan to deliver top and bottom line objectives for Target and Danone
• Accountable for executing a net sales growth target through building and forecasting a business plan and monitoring performance through the P&L to speak to key drivers and determine key risks and opportunities
• Lead Sales Analyst dedicated to Happy Family Target business to execute weekly business reporting, trade management, customer contracts, item maintenance, and support their talent development plan
• Spearheaded Happy Family integration into Danone supporting SAP transition, sales policies, POL integration, EDI connections, order management, and trade management system
• Manage cross functional partnerships between sales strategy, marketing, finance, and supply chain to analyze and address business opportunities and risks, strategize on long term growth and support customer.
• Responsible for leading a committee of five individuals and their committees to support Danone’s inclusive diversity initiatives through recruiting, connecting, and developing Black employees and leaders at all levels

Broomfield, Colorado, United States

• Accountable for Refrigerated Plant Based Beverages sales strategy through leading trade deployment, pricing and promotion guidelines (AMPS), distribution targets, and selling materials to deliver positive net sales and.
• Serve as the key liaison between sales and marketing through effectively communicating marketing campaigns, product launches, customer strategy and reset timing, corporate discontinuations and distribution changes
• Lead an analyst to support content development for monthly business reviews, pre-demand, merchandising and post promotional analysis, bi-weekly sales communications, and national sales meetingsBlack Organization for.

Boulder, CO

• Responsible for owning and overseeing trade management, category analytics, and sales strategy to deliver positive net sales and segment profit
• Develops the Annual Operating Plan in conjunction with marketing, finance and sales to present an aggressive and achievable organization goal
• Lead a team of 4 to deliver best in class trade and category solutions through actionable insights, customer development, and analyzing innovation viability
• Implemented trade management improvements through processes/requirements on promotional entry, slotting INT approval/rejection, ROI, and base/ incremental spend forecasting
• Leverages and combines multiple external and internal data sources to oversee and deliver cohesive selling stories, customer presentations, category decomps and product line assessments
• Owned the Walmart partnership responsible for selling in key assortment distribution, line reviews and innovation summits

Boulder, Colorado

• Accountable for the total trade budget and sales strategy development and evaluation across all product lines
• Identified and implemented revenue management and customer business program development opportunities
• Evaluated and optimized trade strategy, distribution, shelving, merchandising and pricing for each channel and product group to set ongoing strategy and guardrails
• Planned new item platform trade strategy to determine budget, trade rate, slotting, and promotional calendar and pricing for successful launch in June 2019

Denver

• Responsible for owning, developing, and driving the King Soopers and Dillons divisions of Kroger's plan to deliver net revenue and profit above and beyond AOP.
• Exceeded incremental revenue 161.5 to target through fact based selling, increased execution, and local programming
• Spearheaded custom merchandising solutions through successful coordinating between customer, business unit, sales team, and manufacture to place units in 2017
• Identified opportunity to increase collaboration through leading monthly team meetings to discuss strategic initiatives, address business challenges, problem solve and best practice share
• Increased selling with insights through leading insights task force by adapting category management ideologies to create lift and shift insight templates and materials

Chicago

• Responsible for driving PepsiCo’s beverages insights and category management initiatives for Meijer and Ahold
• Performed multi-category analyses to provide store level recommendations on center store space reallocation which delivered positive growth to center store in key categories
• Drove the insights agenda through in depth post promotional analysis and innovation launches
• Managed partnership with AC Nielsen to deliver accurate and efficient reporting through redefining custom categories, product coding, and team trainings
• Led scorecard toolkit and insights knowledge management for the National Grocery Cat Leadership -Meijer, Ahold Corp, Giant Eagle, Hy-Vee
• Successfully presented category reviews, decomps, and fact based recommendations to customer across multiple categories PepsiCo Analysts Unite Co-Chair (PAU): Dec ’14 – Sep '16Developed skills and critical experiences.

Greater Chicago Area

• Lead space planner for PepsiCo beverages at Meijer grocery
• Utilized syndicated and customer data to identify and drive category growth
• Drove sales and market share through space initiatives and advanced analytics
• Developed planograms to elevate LRB execution through assortment optimization
• Improved space efficiencies through best practice sharing, scorecarding, and new processesPepsiCo Analysts Unite: Better Together Chair
• Responsible for cross divisional networking through compiling total portfolio updates, coordinating semi-annual surveys and creating monthly newsletters

Chicago, IL

• Supervised a team of ten work study participants to develop and grow their careers skills
• Developed analytical projects regarding prospective student data
• Trained team on office policies, procedures and customer service etiquette
• Coordinated and lead weekly meetings to communicate assignments, projects, and schedules
• Created comprehensive in office training tools for Microsoft Office

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Completed a category assessment of the Target Salty Snack home space
• Effectively utilized Targets internal P.O.S system and JDA ProSpace
• Actively attended and participated in weekly status, brand meetings, outings with our buyer
• Improved performance through better understanding of adjacencies, space to sales, and flow
• Recommended changes to the salty snack home space
• Delivered business results to grow revenue, share with total category upside of $350,000

Depaul University Admissions Office

• Admissions Intern in Scholarship Office
• Represent Scholarship Office correspondences through e-mail and phone communication
• Assist Undergraduate Office of Admission through group projects with fellow interns
• Increased Scholar Volunteer show rate by 20% through newly implemented initiatives’
• Improve operational efficiencies in Scholarship Office with informational and instructional documents
• Engage with perspective students through targeted presentations about the university

Family Lab, College Of Education

• Modified and update the Lab’s confidential case files and reports for clients, counselors, and students
• Performed administrative office duties: customer service, excel spreadsheets, documents, organize and label office library system, mail reports to clients, maintain office appearance, create ads/flyers
• Prospected leads for Graduate School’s internship program

• Collaborated with my peers to create a presentation on the resources offered at DePaul University
• Co-taught the Explore course: Racial Change and Segregation in Chicago in the fall quarter
• Created and taught a ten week curriculum for first year students in collaboration with my faculty team in order to mentor students on adapting to a college environment through a “common hour”
• Facilitated conversations on major components of success during a students’ first quarter at DePaul

• Led first year students through a two day overnight extensive Premiere DePaul Orientation
• Facilitated discussions on diversity, sustainability, and services at DePaul
• Completed administrative duties for the New Student and Family Engagement Office
• Spoke on a Student Panel about student life at DePaul for parents and guests
• Participated in intensive training on DePaul University and all of its programs
• Coordinated efforts with twenty-three orientations leaders to insure a smooth and successful orientation for the students and guests

1237 West Fullerton Ave. Chicago IL

• Number 1 representative for 2012 with 17 housing referrals ( 200% more than preceding representative)
• Engaged incoming freshman and current students on benefits of living at 1237 West Housing Facilities
• Promoted living at 1237 to current and prospective students through social media and promo events
• Wrote complimentary piece in DePaul’s DeBlogs on the benefits of living in 1237 West - http://deblogs.depaul.edu/guest/Pages/1237West.aspx

Greater Chicago Area

• Promoted Microsoft Technologies to DePaul Students on campus though events and social media
• Create enthusiasm by demoing featured products and features for students to interact with to drive Facebook Likes and Windows Phone 7 Apps to the marketplace
• Inspired students to utilize technology to help solve global dilemmas

• Trained and supervised new employees on company policy and using the cash register in a fast-paced environment
• Quickly learned extensive line of produce codes, pricing, and procedures