Kim Durst Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, MN, US

Minneapolis, MN

Minneapolis

Drug, Specialty

Minneapolis

Target, Albertsons and Publix

Hackettstown, NJ

Minneapolis

• Translate Halloween and Valentine’s Day strategies into maximum sales results by partnering with brand teams to develop new products that fit within Target’s growth strategy.
• Responsible for planning, forecasting and analysis across the seasonal and everyday business.
• Utilize syndicated data to make promotional and shelving recommendations to grow share at Target.
• Manage the financial return for trade budget.
• Partner with shopper marketing for differentiation in store and online execution by participating in DVM and cross vendor promotions.
• Launched exclusive products for Valentine’s Day (Dove Dark Hazelnut) and Halloween (M&M’S Pumpkin Spice) to drive traffic and grow share.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Partnered with Target analysts to build seasonal forecasts for the 4 key seasons.
• Built forecasting model to help account managers better forecast the business. Resulted in significant improvement of team forecasting and reduced total markdowns for business improving our margin and profitability.

• Access, analyze and interpret business indicators such as share, consumption, promotional efficiencies and effectiveness across all categories. Generate reports and make business recommendations to grow business based.
• Lead analysis of our Target business to improve forecasting accuracy of national account executives.
• Perform pre and post analysis of product launches to gauge success. Make recommendations to improve future product launches.
• Prepare weekly financial reports on all businesses to track the financial performance of all categories.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Arts, Business Administration And Marketing Management

Education record