• Review quotations; negotiate prices, delivery terms with manufacturers and suppliers to maximize margin• Provide analytical cost based recommendations to Sales to maximize category performance• Develop long-term strategies for product categories, as well as effective exit strategies where necessary• Work in collaboration with Sales, Marketing and Management to implement proper marketing materials and flyers • Forecast procurement needs using multiple sources of data to execute purchase requisitions of $2M per month in goods

• Proactively analyzed category & customer data/trends to provide insights to drive action through promotional strategies and marketing analytics• Leveraged advanced data metrics to influence Love's Travel Stops to increase their biweekly inventory purchases by $350K• Developed out of stock reporting, leading to 10% fewer out of stocks• Drove a culture of consumer curiosity, insight generation and analytical thinking• Analytics focused around POS, syndicated, customer loyalty, understanding financial liability, and other key KPI’s• Managed various key business analysis projects that had concrete financial benefits to the organization. These projects include, but are not limited to:o Business Dashboards (Corporate, Customer, Brand, Category)o Sales Analysis & Planning Toolso PowerBI /Cognos Reporting• Owned all physical data pulls, report builds, and dissemination of information, and customer facing in terms of presentation of findings and recommendations to key decision makers• Served as lead resource for all everyday planogram and promotional program analysis• Served as facilitator of insights between core DAS business units (Sales, Purchasing, Marketing, Retail Team)• Trained and develop colleagues on how to persuasively sell utilizing category insights• Provided additional ad-hoc analysis upon request

• Analyzed industry statistics to predict sales trends and purchase new sales items • Assisted in negotiations to purchase promotional product based on industry statistics• Executed new processes on Store Bill Outs to reduce Red Label Cost by 90%• Daily conflict management between account management and site teams• Project Management Lead for field related issues for 25 Sales Representatives and 5 District Managers, leading to quicker response time and improved customer satisfaction

Physician and Corporate RelationsExecutive Health*Promoted business development through marketing unique technologies and *Trained team members on hospital wide web programs (IDX, INFORMM, ACT, IHA, *Recommended department budget for all 5 sub-*Maintained fiscal operating budget, ensuring department at or below $1,000,000 *Organized and coordinated inter-state meetings with *Assisted in departmental business planning as relative to the strategic plan for the University of *Tracked service growth and goals, and report data to Associate Senior Vice *Used web-based data tools to pull market share *Updated ACT and Access programs to reflect most recent changes in data each quarter