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San Francisco, California, Us

- Directed cross-functional teams to deliver annual RFP initiative at DoorDash, delivering 3% landed cost savings (exceeded project goal); led the complete buildout of goal development, strategy, product, and analysis tooling.- Successfully hired & developed high-performing team comprised of both ICs and people managers responsible for joint vendor business planning, weekly business reviews, goal setting, and performance analysis. - Single-threaded owner of strategic programs, including annual vendor negotiations, peak holiday GTM planning, and vendor sourcing strategy. Proven track record of meeting and exceeding established goals. - Owned strategic business metrics, including inventory margin, supply chain performance, and assortment coverage. Drove initiatives that drove combined margin impact of over +500 bps over the course of two years, and improved vendor performance with vendors who drove 63% of the business. - Utilized advanced SQL techniques to build reporting from the ground up to track owned goals and initiatives; performed deep analysis of business inputs, communicating business results, opportunities, and risks. - Work cross-functionally to align central teams and local operators across category management, finance, demand planning stakeholders, and store operations to drive change management and operational excellence initiatives.

Seattle, Wa, Us

- Managed complex, cross-functional programs with global impact, developing program strategy, defining goals, and driving cross-functional stakeholder engagement. - Collaborated across teams to define and track objectives, VP-level goals and deliverables; worked autonomously in ambiguous environment to build solutions to improve customer instock availability. - Prepared and delivered business reviews and key updates regarding progress for leadership team; partnered with internal teams to source, allocate, and coordinate resources.

Seattle, Wa, Us

- Led, motivated, and developed a team of high-performing account managers who owned strategic relationships with the largest vendors in Amazon's flagship Books business. Successfully hired & promoted top performers. - Identify, quantify, and define feature enhancements and new products to improve service offerings based on customer feedback, data analysis, and feature gaps.- Analyze publisher experience to establish improvement plans and growth opportunities.- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to support the improvement of tools and processes to enhance the publisher experience and drive team productivity.- Build strong relationships with publishers; proactively build joint business plan action items and act as a point of escalation for outstanding issues, questions, and concerns.- Manage end to end goal setting for team to align with organizational goals.- Identify, action and/or provide advice on how to improve business input metrics that drive results and improve customer experience, in collaboration with other Amazon programs and teams.

Seattle, Wa, Us

-Manage P&L, including planning, forecasting, and driving growth, for select publishers in Amazon's flagship Books business.-Set goals and strategic direction for the business, ensuring alignment with broader business goals and vision.-Generate and implement big ideas to drive business improvement, innovation, and scale within the category.-Optimize product sourcing, operations, and coordination across Retail teams. -Develop and lead weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews.-Identify industry trends that are relevant to customer selection and experience.

Seattle, Wa, Us

-Manage P&L, including planning, forecasting, and driving growth, for select publishers in Amazon's flagship Books business.-Set goals and strategic direction for the business, ensuring alignment with broader business goals and vision.-Generate and implement big ideas to drive business improvement, innovation, and scale within the category.-Optimize product sourcing, operations, and coordination across Retail teams. -Develop and lead weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews.-Identify industry trends that are relevant to customer selection and experience.

Seattle, Wa, Us

-On-board new vendor selection to Amazon, focusing on the technical integration for Amazon's SaaS platform-Manage the P&L of select vendors within the Software category-Partner with PM and tech teams to advocate for and prioritize the adoption of new features, customer experiences, and platform updates-Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support strategic initiatives and drive cross-category programs-Integrate strong and clear analysis and business rationale into sound decision making-Manage key business inputs to deliver sales and profit for the Software category- Develop and lead weekly, monthly, and annual business reviews

Seattle, Wa, Us

-Managed strategic vendor relationships to drive vendor sales and delight customers-Conceived, created, and analyzed marketing and site merchandising efforts to drive traffic and increase customer conversion-Analyzed key business metrics to identify opportunities to grow sales and deliver profit-Lead strategic automation projects for the Software category

Plano, Texas, Us

- Allocate merchandise at SKU level to over 1,000 JCPenney stores.- Ensure stores are at optimal inventory levels and meet presentation standards to drive sales and customer service.- Analyze business pre-season, in-season, and post-season to uncover opportunities and risks.- Develop recommendations for in-season changes and pre-season assortments.- Partner with merchant organization on size strategy, providing analysis, depth needs, range recommendations, and pack needs.- Prepare weekly and monthly reviews of item sales and inventory results.- Coordinate forecasting estimates for pre-season assortments.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

- Assisted in sales, loss prevention, floorset responsibilities—competent in AEO selling and Customer First philosophies.- Increased knowledge of selling and relating to customers.- Assisted in training new associates.- Seasonal Cashier Lead for three months—October to December 2008.- Developed customer service and interpersonal communication skills through daily interactions with customers and team members. - Worked during peak seasonal hours (holiday)--experienced high volumes of store traffic.

Plano, Texas, Us

- Shadowed leaders in Receiving and Flat DCI Departments consisting of 20 associates each; assisted with leadership responsibilities—demonstrated competence in leading the associates.- Planned and completed a project that improved work flow between two departments, increasing facility productivity—completed additional project work in other departments at the request of management.- Gained knowledge of lean tools (8 Wastes, Standard Work, 5S, A3P, Value Stream).- Developed interpersonal skills by assuming leadership responsibilities.- Received job offer as a result of internship.

- Provided piano accompaniment for ballet classes, auditions, performances, rehearsals.- Performed piano music with ballet dancers, provided piano accompaniment for IBT events.- Maintained customer database in Microsoft Excel, increased knowledge of databases.- Gained problem-solving and communication skills by working with dancers and directors.