Katie H. Email and Phone Number

Katie has 18+ years of experience in various aspects of retail. She has developed her expertise working in Buying/Procurement, Design, and Project Management and currently in Vendor Compliance. Katie has experience in negotiating, budgeting, managing projects, and reduction in VC fines, process improvements. She is skilled as a liaison for key internal stakeholders, collaborating with Chief Executives, Sr. VPs, Directors, and individual business partners. Katie has a broad view of managing budgets and projects with the ability to foresee project impacts and potential timeline breeches while proactively mitigating deadline and budget impact. Katie has leadership capabilities and interpersonal skills with the proven ability to develop staff, influence, inspire and motivate key stakeholders and a diverse team around a single vision.Katie also has the capability to provide front line root cause analysis of fines and deductions, issue resolution, and proactive fine prevention. She will direct the flow of VC information to the groups that can positively effect change and reduce charge backs. AREAS OF EXPERTISE:• Vendor Management• Procurement• Budgeting• Project Management• Negotiations• Planning• Team Development• Research/Analysis• Customer Service• Mentoring • Power Point• Excel•