Kim Anders Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Florida, Us

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Richfield, Minnesota, Us

Leader of onshore and offshore teams responsible for the management of regular, clearance, and open box pricing • Led development of pricing capability for billion dollar open box inventory business. This included development of open box pricing models, creation of open box pricing tool, and rollout of processes to merchant, inventory, and retail partners. Decreased over $8M in annual expense related to the pricing of open box inventory.• Led roll-out of competitive price management processes and execution. Drove merchandising adoption and sustainment of methodology and execution.• Led creation of reporting to measure and analyze pricing performance and inventory health• Drove YoY reduction of margin erosion from product transition by $22M annually through development of transition processes and analysis of expense drivers.

Richfield, Minnesota, Us

Manager of team responsible for the reduction of expense related to customer returns and end of life inventory liquidation :• Identified $40M in annual expense associated with incorrect routing of returned inventory. Led project to systematically route customer returned inventory based vendor return policies. In conjunction with system enhancements, partnered with IT team to deliver audit reporting to identify unnecessary expense associated with customer returns. Delivered over $75M in gross margin benefits in three years by optimally routing customer returned product to reduce liquidation expense.• Provided analysis to Merchant Leadership quantifying expense associated with vendor return policies. Enabled negotiation of new return policies to drive $37.1M in gross margin benefit in three years.• Led cross-functional meetings and communication with IT, Accounting, and Asset Recovery teams to build reporting for drivers of inventory liquidation P&L expense at vendor/class level. • Identified opportunity to delay timing of store inventory EOL liquidation for Notebooks, Cameras, and Camcorder categories. Tested hypothesis which resulted in an approved recommendation to delay pull timing by 30 days to increase annual gross margin benefit by $2.1M

Richfield, Minnesota, Us

Manager of thirteen person team responsible for the optimization of regular and clearance prices. Responsible for goal setting as well as performance and development of Price Optimization Planners and Leads. • Led change management efforts of Clearance Price Management Tools and Processes with Merchant and Demand Planning Leadership which resulted in a 97% adoption rate for utilization of the CPM Tool.• Developed transition strategy which led to a year over year average reduction of 5.4 weeks of supply when beginning a markdown plan while allowing teams to execute clearance price discounts earlier in lifecycle.• Developed forecasting methodology to provide estimated transition expense to business teams to allow for better assortment decisions. This decreased clearance erosion and liquidation expense by $11.7M.• Drove modeling and system enhancements for pricing tools with 3rd party vendor which increased forecasting accuracy as well as customer satisfaction and efficiencies for Pricing Team.• Partnered with Price Strategy team to deliver class level key competitors based on market share and merchant/retail insight. Merged market share data with pricing tool competitive pricing index data to provide baseline for future pricing strategy discussions.• Delivered outstanding financial performance of over $310M in gross margin benefits.