Product Management Specialist - Fasteners• Contribute to management of Fasteners portfolio encompassing 66K SKUs across 251 catalog pagesProduct Management Specialist - Mechanics Tools• Contributed to portfolio management of $155M dollar Mechanics Tools segment• Focused on driving profitable growth through cost management, pricing, product line expansion, and improvements to catalog & ecommerce merchandising• Developed and implemented logic, tracking, and tools to help Product Managers execute timely transitions of $54M global replacement programs over two catalog cycles• Vendor management including SAL negotiation & onboarding, product life-cycle management, OTS performance, NSSM & other company initiatives for 120 suppliers

• Full ownership of new item planning: provided support for company wide product line expansion initiatives by managing inventory strategy for 60-80M SKUs across all brands and 10 Distribution Centers• Developed stocking policies to support availability goals while meeting $50MM incremental inventory budget• Worked with Product Management and DC operations to time targeted go-live dates, initial purchase orders, and inventory entry into DC network• Established initial planning parameters; adjusted inventory investment through location and depth as history developed• Continuously improved new item processes• Redesigned replacement item inventory process to consistently optimize inventory investment• Collaborated with Purchasing to introduce Supplier Readiness Review Process to improve inventory availability upon new item go-live• Re-calibrated core stock/de-stock logic and introduced policies as reoccurring new item processes• Adapted new item planning in changing business climate, including systems tools, brand integration, and DC network evolution• Developed offline demand filtering process

• Developed EDEM tool used on a monthly basis to analyze and react to the performance of Market Intelligence inventory in the DC networko Initial report resulted in the identification of $6.9MM in excess inventory• Executed customer data pulls and analysis using SAP, BW, SPSS, Access and Excel