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• Work with senior management in the category management group to provide analytical support and proactively identify business performance drivers and opportunities.• Coordinate budgeting, planning, control, compliance and analysis activities for the category management group as well as overseeing the accounting and reporting for revenue streams on a period, quarterly and annual basis. • Primary contact with Senior Management regarding the financials on new businesses and ventures. This entails both creating and presenting all financial information relating to the new businesses including P&L’s, proformas, assumptions, and all analysis needed for Senior Management to discuss and approve/deny all new businesses or ventures. • Develop and deliver financial analysis of key promotions, new supplier and other category requests to determine overall department financial impact. • Lead in the design and enhancement of new financial reports and analytics to evaluate key performance metrics within sales and gross margin (COGS, shrink). Drive process efficiency and consistency, streamlining reporting & workflows and standardization across the Divisions/ functional area (s).

Provide advanced analytical support for the largest and most complex Non-Perishable (NP) and HBC merchandising vendors (cross category) negotiations, assisting in identifying opportunities to lower cost, obtain incremental vendor funding, and improve payment terms or working capital position to create a competitive negotiations environment.

- Negotiate and develop strategic plans for assigned categories to achieve financial, customer and market share objectives- Merchandising strategy by managing assigned categories with product assortment, pricing promotion, and shelf presentation- Manage the divisional differences while monitoring results for achieving department and divisional goals- Responsible to lead the day-to-day negotiation for promotions, marketing programs, fuel rewards, ads, temporary price reductions, and displays. Take all new product presentations and create recommended listing and DE-listing of assortment.- Cost/Deal management– Reviewing/Approving/Modifying Tradepoint deals sheets. Entry and pricing deals in Demandtec for ad activity. Identifying and resolving pricing issues with pricing.- Update financial spreadsheets, Review weekly sales, D&A, Demos and OB sales to budget- Develop merchandising plans for product. Implementing plan-o-grams, displays, promotions, marketing programs and counter layouts enhancing store image presentation - Oversee key aspects of cost and the supply chain management; monitor effectiveness, availability and opportunities. Forecast everyday promotional and seasonal needs to appropriate parties- Assist in developing comprehensive category business plans consistent with the overall goals and strategies- Provide analytical support for overall category and portfolio development- Assist in selection of assortment-seasonal product, surveying stores, recaps, placing orders and or forecasts with third parties.- Provide inputs in an on-time and accurate manner to ensure information flows to merchandising systems to meet lead times of the business.- Ensure effective implementation of supplier/vendor promotional plan to optimize category results.- Actively manage working capital relationship with suppliers

- Negotiate and develop strategic plans for assigned categories to achieve financial, customer and market share objectives. - Merchandising strategy by managing assigned categories with product assortment, pricing promotion, and shelf presentation.- Cost/Deal management, Reviewing/Approving/Modifying Tradepoint deals sheets. Entry and pricing deals in Demandtec for ad activity. Identifying and resolving pricing issues with pricing.- Update financial spreadsheets, Review weekly sales, D&A, Demos and OB sales to budget

- Resolve service issues between suppliers, warehouse and store facilities.- Work all weekly reports including dead inventory, items not cross coded, leftover ad and short coded to minimize item issues.- Post intranet surveys for stores to review special programs or distributions.Interact with C&S buyers regarding distributions, slot checks, Bookings and cross coding issues. - Entered ad items into Adplex promote database as well as ad headlines, descriptions and signage.- Proofed all versions of out going to ensure pricing and versioning accuracy- Responded to resolution center issues such as customer requests or pricing errors- Processed bonus buy extensions for stores with sufficient leftovers from ads or seasons and request additional funding from vendors.- Handled day to day vendor communication on cost issues, distributions, new item and new vendor set up’s.

Account Liaison to customer Giant Food Stores. Assisted Business Development Manager to Giant Food Stores with day to day responsibilities, developing and implementing promotional activities, filtering and resolving customer service issues between Stores and responsible bottlers. Including other day to day administrative responsiblities with in the Coca-Cola system.