Collaborate with Walmart Merchant teams, Planning teams, Replenishment Managers and ProductDevelopment on private label shoes as my company’s local-to-Bentonville liaison.

Held accountability for supporting large international cosmetics company across multiple channels, as well as for providing easily digestible report deliverables with key business insights spanning multiple key disciplines to optimize sales.• Demonstrated expert ability in utilizing Retail Link to support Walmart U.S and Canada and RSi to support Walgreens, Ulta Beauty Portal, Rite-Aid Portal, and many other channels.• Assured principal client success as evidenced by 18% YoY growth in brick-and-mortar, as well as 110% growth in Dotcom.

Planned, coordinated, and directed P&L for all Wal-Mart U.S. and International reporting and deliverable requirements for operations and finance teams spanning company’s largest Gift Card customer.• Devised, developed, and create comprehensive business reviews for Wal-Mart U.S. and Sam’s Club across 15 international countries.• Played instrumental role in leveraging data analytics and insights on creative designs to showcase volume, spend trends, demographic indices, activation performance, velocity, and emerging markets.

Led all facets of P&L for analytics team. Supported clients in planning, developing, and engaging in proven-effective go-to-market strategies and retail merchandising deployments designed to align with respective sales objectives.• Acted as central resource in hiring, on-boarding, training, developing, and mentoring team of eight analysts in support of top-tier clients and their products, initiatives, and sales objectives spanning millions of distribution points across multiple departments and categories.• Achieved 30% increase in item count, 25% increase in points-of-distribution, and 30% increase in gross sales by leveraging and marrying IRI, Nielsen, and Retail Link data to identify white space, market, and spend trends, pricing elasticity, volume, emerging brands, and markets.

Drove collaborative efforts with top-tier Wal-Mart suppliers to offer holistic strategies and actionable turn-key solutions that generate millions in top- and bottom-line growth, as well as sales and market share growth.• Secured 55% increase in item count, 33% increase in points-of-distribution, 15% decrease in mark-downs, and 35% increase in sales by calling on Buyers and Replenishment Managers as first or second chair in utilizing of fact-based selling.• Planned and executed detailed replenishment analysis on high-velocity, highly-perishable fresh items that resulted in re-appropriation of inventory, reduction of markdowns from 10% to <7%, and $1.2M= increase in sales spanning 2K+ points-of-distribution.• Successful in spearheading warehouse inventory store-specific push initiatives in alignment with supplier and Wal-Mart Joint Business Plan during period of very high visibility; resulted in $12M+ in additional gross sales.

- Collaborated with clients and company departments to develop new strategies to capitalize on emerging customer and market trends- Mentored Business Development Team to bridge the gap between operational effectiveness/retail initiatives and technology to facilitate greater and more effective focus on client sales objective deployments- Managed P&L against retail initiatives to ensure clients' revenue budget and sales objectives were met- As part of the Advantage Wrigley Leadership Team, developed actionable sales initiatives and operational distribution reports with which our team managed sales objectives, and rally the sales team to hit our target sales objectives- Mentored fellow analysts on retail technology platform to ensure business-critical systems and data were created and maintained accurately and flawlessly

- Directed business analysts in executing and delivering various tactical and strategic plans- Performed as subject matter expert for several proprietary systems, and provided first- or second-level support for up to 200 other business systems- Solved people and system communication issues by initiating bi-weekly meetings with key business teams to reduce order failures by up to 80%, educating the teams in best practices whereby strengthening my team's [Electronic Data Interchange] partnership with the Wal-Mart and Sam's Club Teams- Ensured 100% successful processing of business-critical EDI transactions by analyzing root-cause of exceptions and correcting business logic, scripts and mapping, all totaling millions of dollars per day- Lead the development of the E-Commerce project for the Purchasing Group that enabled vendors to accept, fulfill, and invoice via the web, virtually eliminating administrative costs and greatly increasing timeliness and ultimately fulfillment- Presented on behalf of Information Systems in the New Hire Orientation every month- Graduate of the Tyson Management Development Program