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Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Lombard, Il

Naperville, Illinois

• Responsible in the Plan-o-gram creations and maintenance of ten Technology categories, five Supplies Categories, and seven Seasonal categories through the use of JDA Space Planning and Data Manager Tools.• Captured and created plan-o-grams for the OfficeMax’s new Business format store, Vector, within a speed-to-market timeframe. • Responsible for the space planning accounts in the OfficeMax’s new Channel Business that successfully held retail spaces in Safeway, Food Lion, the Navy, and University of Arkansas.• Orchestrated the testing and implementations of the ink category price strip project through data integrity, image updates, and pricing uploads.• Key driver in successfully creating the Clustering strategy of the Printer Plan-o-grams for the chain. Delivered 174• Plan-o-grams to ensure specific key assortments are delivered to each store for the highest and most efficient profitable rate.• Formulated the Process for “weeks of supply” calculation that insured correct assortment and inventory levels.• Gatekeeper for the Plan-o-gram Revision Calendar to ensure that the stores’ activity calendars stayed within the allocated designated time.• Authored the OfficeMax Space Planning Process Guidelines.• Responsible for the training and on boarding of new Space Planning specialists.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

• Responsible for the contracted projects at Sears Holdings Corporation. • Accomplished and completed projects within a speed-to-market timeframe in categories such as all plan-o-grams for three Seasons (Valentines, Easter, and Christmas) and Plan-o-grams within the Sports/Athletic Department.• Delivered Training to the new Sears Holdings Corp employees in the use of the Intactix Software.• Lead training of the integrated Sears Holdings Corp Proprietary add-ons along with JDA IKB training.

As a third party fixture Installation Company, America Display is the leader in the installation of back bar fixtures for major convenience outlets, including BP (ampm), Circle K, Speedway, and PBD (Mobil). The newly created Department of Space and Assortment Strategies was developed to offer our customers a new level of service.My responsibilities: • Key driver in the launch of the New Department of Space and Assortment Strategy that created a new level of service to the America Display Customers. • Lead initiatives in servicing the customers with annual review, maintenance, and creations of national Plan-o-grams.• Project managed all Plan-o-gram Resets that involved ownerships in timelines, data analysis, issues resolutions, and project finalization with vendor-supplied recap reports and cost breakdowns.• Maintained and updated the Cigarette database within Intactix that included images updates and data analysis.• Specialized and introduced the Space Planning Software to New Accounts, and delivered services such as live Plan-o-grams builds and data backups in excel files.

•Space Planning SpecialistThe national Space Planner for all cigarette and OTP planograms. • Instrumental in the conversion of all cigarette excel spreadsheet planograms to Intactix; which included 16 regions and 12 formats per region for an approximate total of 120 planograms created in Intactix. This also included the creation of a data and image library of all cigarette sku’s.• Project Manager of resets; includes the development of project timelines for vendors and operations kept the projects on track which reduced fixturing/ installer cost.• Led the logistics of all shelving needs; working as a team with vendors and installers saved an estimated 400k in reset fixturing cost. The distribution of planograms to vendors, installers, field merchandisers and sites, via email and web based distribution methods reduced shipping charges dramatically over previous year.• Maintained a Cigarette Core Database; the creation of a master data sheet of all cigarette data, which included the documentation of placement of sku’s per regional planograms, insured 100% contractual compliance of all our sites. • Instrumental in the development of new Cigarette Ordering Tool; transfer of data from planograms and loaded into tool for store use, tool used for the elimination of out-of-stocks by 6.6% bringing our in-stock rate to above 98%, and reduced inventories by an average of 15%.• Maintained a OTP Data/Pricing Database; like the Cigarette Core Database, the OTP Database mirrors the functionality plus the inclusion of regional pricing which is then uploaded into the OTP planograms.• Key participant in the OTP category reviews; working with our main vendors who supply us with raw data from the category plus our own in house data, produced a clear range of products which grew the category by an average of 9% each of the three years I was involved in the category.