William Griggs Email & Phone Number

Saint Charles, Mo, Us

Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

- I own and operate a small photography business specializing in Real Estate, Architecture, and small business photography.- We provide photography and video content for realtors and small business owners to elevate their business and personal branding.

Earth City, Missouri

• Lead new product development projects requiring complex understanding and communication between multiple cross-functional partners including new product development , sourcing, package engineering, finance, inventory and demand planning, manufacturing, regulatory, legal, and design.• Plan and execute consumer and market research projects to generate insights and drive actionable business recommendations• Execute consumer promotions including ongoing and temporary IRC and FSI coupons and rebates using Inmar CMS• Partner with advertising agency and internal creative teams to direct the development of relevant and on strategy social, digital, print, and banner-ad content to achieve SEM and SEO objectives for the brand and brand websites• Direct ad-agency in the creation of a media planning calendar • Lead team projects involving both external and internal partners including the development of a new app and the management of the CMS to maintain the app • Execute and develop in-store promotional materials with sales and trade marketing teams • Perform business tracking and analysis of shipping using internal POS data, Nielson competitive sales and pricing data to drive product innovation and find gaps and opportunities• Develop presentations for internal teams and external retail partners• Own the marketing spend budget tracking and reporting for over 3+ million dollars for all household pesticide brands• Manage communications with field sales teams to keep alignment between brand and channel and retailer sales strategies and find new opportunities for growth• Partner with brand leaders on the development of strategic and product pipelines• Develop and execute quantitative and qualitative consumer research • Lead process improvement projects including designing an enhanced process for managing coupons to eliminate the risk of expired coupons entering the market and streamlined the brand budgeting process

Earth City, Mo

• Designed market share presentations to add credibility to sales stories using aggregate POS data• Built retail landscapes for our top retail clients to support our platform sales teams with up to date data for products across all segments• Developed a web crawler macro to streamline and automate future retail landscape projects to provide up to date product data and track trends• Collaborated with marketing intelligence resource to read and report results of activities and to provide recommendations and forecasts.• Lead the development and implementation of bump charts for our strategic accounts platform sales teamsusing syndicated data collected from Nielson • Created a web scraper using an online API to regularly collect, format and present weather data for our in house sales dashboard

Bel Ridge, Mo

• Managed stock returns for over 50 lighting vendors• Proactively reported product and material availability issues to planners and supervisors• Communicated directly with national contract suppliers to confirm production/shipping schedules• Developed and maintained relationships with national vendors• Monitored 74 million dollars of open purchase orders daily to ensure on-time deliveries• Utilized SAP to update purchase order status and shipment tracking information • Expedited the shipment of low-stock and stock-out inventory to prevent customer service failures• Liaised between plants and vendors to resolve discrepancies between orders and invoices

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General, 3.85 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Alpha Sigma Nu ; Beta Gamma SigmaFull-Time MBA Program

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Fine And Studio Arts

Business Administration Minor