Kyle Holgate Email & Phone Number

Bentonville, AR, US

Bentonville, Arkansas

• Achieved strong back to school water filtration program resulting in +2% instock and +16% POS sales over prior year
• Collaborated with Walmart laundry replenishment manager to get additional settings in ahead of hurricane season driving incremental sales resulting in $1.1M top line growth
• Maintained RDC’s average instock for charcoal >99% through peak season which includes Memorial Day, Father’s Day and July 4th
• Mitigated litter modular markdowns to $180k on a projection of $300k
• Influenced Walmart trash replenishment manager to add 2 days of additional safety stockfor 9 items during holidays resulting in an additional $500k
• Anniversaried sales from prior year promotional period w/o feature space by proposing 25 item/dc combinations

• Advised merchant of growth opportunities and risks based on daily, weekly, monthly and seasonalfinancial analysis
• Created and managed category desk level annual and monthly financial budgets for a $2.3B sales desk
• Prepared and presented rolled-up financial line reviews
• Managed and tracked high profile rollback programs showing year-over-year comp sales growth of6.4% or $115M
• Analyzed promotional and seasonal events (Comac, Bake Center, Back to School, Thanksgiving,Christmas) to uncover opportunities and risks across categories

• Developed and performed key strategies for market managers to flow holiday pineapples resulting in a market share gain of 4% to total market share of 34%
• Key contributor in development of DOS project to reduce 1 day of inventory in DC/store resulting in$3M markdown savings for the company
• Trained and sponsored new Replenishment Analyst familiarizing him with new job skills
• Supplier webinar project team member responsible for training suppliers on monthly basis
• Successfully converted responsible tropical categories to GRS
• Managed category fulfillment and demand responsibilities to 41 DC’s and 4500+ stores

• Worked with cross-functional team on forecast creation and modifications on annual category salesdesk of $119M growing the comp sales by 9% over previous year
• Collaborated with suppliers on product flow for key seasonal and promotional date execution
• Developed contingency plans for allocation period to ensure proper inventory goal of 96% andexceeded goal to 97% instock during period

• Research options to reduce business expenses
• Experience in using ABC analysis for products and MRP systems
• Set up long term and non-disclosure agreements with vendors
• Vendor management ensuring on time delivery and quality of part

Master Of Science (Ms), Operations Management

Business Management, Supply Chain Management