Holly Watson Email & Phone Number

Buffalo, NY, US

Pico Rivera, CA, US

• Conduct the procurement of goods and services as needed by user department requirements in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Respond to requisitions, collect quotations, examine bids, and make recommendations on awarding of purchase orders.
• Collect, compare, and analyze data and specifications for RFX.
• Perform spend analysis on specified commodities or departments to decrease procurement costs and improve efficiency.
• Maintain bid specs, item master data and blanket purchase orders in SWS.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Manage material requirements for HVAC projects by coordinating with Project Managers, Engineers, and Production.
• Coordinate and expedite flow of material between departments according to production schedule.
• Responsible for scheduling of all production orders, and generating and updating bills of materials.
• Release shop orders to production, tracking and managing shortages and expediting with buyers.
• Procure parts needed for the manufacturing of products.

New York, New York, US

• Support Statement Reconciliation team in Outside Activities group by reviewing and maintaining employees’ brokerage account statements to determine compliance with the Employee Trading Policy.
• Analyze documents and processes to ensure risks and control points are in accordance to policies.
• Investigate employees’ statements to ensure regulatory and legal requirements.
• Review monthly bulk upload report to determine discrepancies and take corrective actions.
• Process employees’ outside activities disclosures to be reviewed by analysts.

Courbevoie, Île-de-France, FR

• Supported marketing team by maintaining pricing and promotions in SAP for over 880 active customers in addition to calculating sales commissions for this global technical fabrics company.
• Assisted with the integration of New York Wire through the creation of intercompany material transfer orders to move product between plants, simplifying sales rep master data and decreasing the error rate of commission.
• Streamlined and automated commission calculation process, making the rep determination process more transparent.
• Calculated on average $100k of monthly commissions and maintained master data for 40 domestic and international rep groups.
• Documented new procedures for commission and coop/rebate process and maintained copies of commission, coop, and rebate agreements in the shared drive.

Culver City, CA, US

• Provided quantitative strategic insight and recommendations to Sales for several Scan Based Trading accounts including Loblaws and Blockbuster in order to improve business results for this home video distribution arm.
• Developed initial plan-o-grams for the Sony launch of SPHE’s largest North American SBT account.
• Created and maintained plan-o-grams and developed allocations for new release items.
• Conducted post mortems on promotions and new releases to determine sell through performance.
• Prepared quarterly presentations for Sales regarding account performance.
• Reviewed and maintained monthly business plans for major customers.

• Managed inventory levels for up to 150 skus for major customers including A&P and Wal-Mart for this consumer packaged goods company headquartered in Canada.
• Forecasted weekly demand for skus and established replenishment orders for customers’ warehouses, improving service levels and increasing turns.
• Analyzed promotional activity to determine most effective sales strategies and made enhancement recommendations to Sales and Marketing based on quantitative analysis of sales data.
• Instrumental in improving communications between Sales and customers, creating smooth information flow and achievement of scorecard metrics targets.
• Developed strong working relationships with various business units and customers, enhancing the overall customer service experience.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Responsible for analyzing and forecasting demand for approximately 200 Skin Care and Personal Cleansing skus to enable the company to meet sales and service objectives.
• Analyzed statistical models of skus using Manugistics software to improve forecast accuracy.
• Coordinated and led consensus meetings with marketing and finance to determine monthly volumes and clarify and modify any forecast related issues.
• Acted as a liaison between Sales and Product Supply to ensure that the demand forecast supported the sales plan.
• Developed the ability to communicate effectively with technical experts from a variety of business units as well as the ability to build solid working relationships across the organization.

• Responsible for planning and preparing production schedules for this institutional and industrial cleaning products company.
• Directed the weekly planning cycle from analysis of the monthly plan to preparation of daily production programs and revision of the production schedule.
• Analyzed and controlled the continual correspondence of daily production with planned production.
• Managed control of plant documents and product movements.

Buffalo, NY, US

• Prepared documents for customs, updating shipping schedules and on-time delivery reports for this leader in the frozen food industry.
• Selected to continue role upon completing internship based on work performance and positive attitude.
• Conducted domestic airfreight analyses and prepared on-time delivery reports.
• Analyzed inventory, entered and booked orders and shipments, and managed customer files.

Bachelor Of Arts, International Relations/Spanish; Business

International Mba, Marketing; Latin America