Managing pricing strategy and operations globally for the company.

As a pricing lead in merchandising and strategy and analytics, I am responsible for a team of pricing planners and analysts that work directly with the core business teams. My team coordinates clearance pricing, competitive pricing, regular pricing, and price testing with a variety of businesses. My team is also responsible for producing the reporting and analytics needed to drive pricing initiatives that produce our team's recommendations that ultimately lead to bottom line savings for the company. The position requires extensive knowledge of pricing capabilities as well as a complete understanding of merchant and demand planning roles. In summary, I examine the current state of our pricing and business practices and find efficiency to create better results through data analysis and change management.

As a pricing planner at Best Buy, I worked with 25 different businesses in all different areas of the company. I was responsible for developing business relationships with merchants and demand planning and making recommendations for change in their pricing strategies to increase their bottom line and improve efficiency. I was a leader on the team that created a variety of pricing tools that enhanced the analytics and improved recommendations and data efficiency for the entire pricing team. Managed clearance pricing for the business team and created additional margin while selling through the balance of clearance inventory. Pushed business teams to excellence through data analysis and change management to begin thinking about clearance earlier in the lifecycle and manipulating regular pricing in areas where there was opportunity to improve against competition and/or increase overall margin.

Worked directly with the vendor community and the merchant team to run the Networking business. Responsible for all purchasing decisions for to $400 million dollar business. Collaborated with merchants on assortment decisions, promotion decisions, and financial forecasts. Negotiated with vendors to build the most efficient inventory model for the category and help with planning inventory builds early in the lifecycle. Managed a demand planning analyst and improved store forecasting accuracy and store allocation accuracy with that analyst.