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St. Augustine, Fl, Us

Raleigh, Nc, Us

• Directed a team of planners managing replenishment purchasing to support $1.2 billion in sales.• Oversaw $345 million in inventory across ~180 suppliers, encompassing 8,500 unique SKUs and over 13 million store/item combinations.• Executed demand forecasting and management for optimal stock levels.• Streamlined Planogram (POG) processes to align inventory with market demands.• Built and maintained robust partnerships with domestic and international suppliers for seamless supply chain operations.• Implemented data-driven strategies to minimize stockouts and reduce excess inventory.• Collaborated with merchandising, logistics, and finance teams to align inventory goals with broader business objectives and drive organizational success.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

• Directed a team of Business Analysts and Senior Business Analysts to support high-impact inventory and supply chain projects, driving measurable improvements across operations.• Oversaw inventory disposition from distribution centers and store closures.• Worked closely with diverse teams to align inventory processes with broader business goals.• Established innovative approaches to inventory management that balanced cost reduction, capacity optimization, and environmental stewardship.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Mooresville, Nc, Us

• Managed over 150 executive-level financial reporting deliverables, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.• Oversaw internal FP&A data security and external financial data-sharing operations to ensure compliance and confidentiality.• Led the centralization, rationalization, and enhancement of financial reporting processes across international offices.• Directed the enterprise-wide re-platforming of the staffing and payroll reporting software.• Served as the finance business lead, establishing and implementing corporate-standard metrics for performance measurement.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

• Analyze KPI’s performance trends to develop strategic program roadmaps while measuring efficiency and providing business decision support on major investment areas/programs.• Drive and support initial planning and launch of key initiatives and major investments identified through strategy planning, milestone setting, analytical operational/business driven insights and resource planning.• Create and maintain business databases, reports, scorecards and tools while standardizing functions, including operational analysis and program profitability analysis.• Synthesize data from multiple sources to portray a holistic story to company and field leaders that results in data driven decisions including quantified risks and recommendations.• Ensure cross functional alignment of goals and execution as well as help teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward.• Measure progress against annual strategic initiatives that are managed by cross-functional partners and communicate risks and areas of focus to leadership teams.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

• Responsible for financial planning, forecasting and reporting for several different categories across multiple business channels. • Provide strategic analysis quantifying financial opportunity and risk while reporting findings and insights to the merchandise team to support sales & promotions. • Provide holistic and objective views for all forecasting and budgeting discussions, challenging assumptions by reviewing category information and performance while comparing to rest of industry. Identify both short and long-term business trends, while quantifying financial risk and opportunity working with several cross-functional teams. Develop “what-if” scenarios and create testing scenarios while providing contingency planning analysis. • Analyze sales, financial and other operational metrics to provide support to merchandise team in promotional planning and vendor negotiations. • Create reporting and business plans for all decision supporting needs while providing insight and visibility into the business at an exceptionally granular level. • Develop business driving and variance analysis and insights to make accurate business decisions, benefiting all parties involved, while improving processes across multiple teams.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

• Analyzed, monitored and improved assortment within the market(s) of our company’s footprint, while ensuring the correct assortment was in the correct markets based on vehicles in operation and other internal gauges used to properly identify the correct assortment. • Worked closely with other cross-functional teams including the field leadership team, distribution centers, real estate, inventory management and merchandising to produce maximum in-market coverage and superior assortment availability. • Create and review distributive model for maximum efficiency within our distribution network.Continual process analysis to identify business gaps and develop action plans to minimize inventory liability based on the category life cycle, improve product turn, produce optimal route efficiency and improve many other processes. • Identify market performance while partnering with field leadership to quickly identify strengths and weaknesses and execute plans to improve market performance based on field feedback and internal data.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

• Managed a sku base of 4,000 skus throughout the company network, including several distribution centers and 4,000 stores. • Collaborated closely with over 10 vendor partners, many who are continually voted top vendors by the Automotive Aftermarket Suppliers Association to identify business gaps, improve process efficiency and drive incremental sales and profits for all parties involved. • Responsible for inventory efficiency and attaining in stock goals, while driving sales, reducing non-productive inventory and minimizing inventory liability. • Continually monitor product flow from supplier, to distribution center, to store level for optimal effectiveness to ensure the correct inventory levels and in stock goals are being met to serve the customer and support sales.• Developed superior relationships with supplier partners, field team members and internal partners. • Worked closely with Category Managers to maximize assortment levels to drive sales & promotions.

Reston, Va, Us

Dynamic business analyst serving as the “go-to” person to facilitate meetings and drive conversation with account executives, project engineers, commissioning & installation team and finance team to, produce quotes for customers, validate data from all parties involved and ensure the customer is receiving the complete solution/experience at the end of the process. Provide financial, operational, supply chain and sales analysis to cross-functional teams within the company. Managed data and its integrity while identifying opportunities and creating business plans to close gaps using internal tools and Salesforce.com. Worked extensively with all departments in the company depending on the scope of work which includes, but is not limited to sales, engineering, installation & commission, business analysis, finance and legal. Reviewed sales & performance analysis as well as other operational gaps to produce business plans to help all parties involved achieve their individual, department and company goals. Managed and presented company key performance indicators to company executives while providing analysis and insights into main drivers. Developed numerous internal business rhythms to gauge my department’s success and performance as well as the company’s. Also assisted in the training and development of new hires in my department as well as other departments.

Roanoke, Va, Us

Coordinated the marketing efforts for the circulation department for multi-channel sales including single copy, home delivery, Newspapers In Education and e-commerce. Worked collaboratively with other teams in the company including home delivery, single copy, sales & service, production, advertising, marketing and many more. Partnered and managed the results of multiple vendor partners specializing in teleservices, e-commerce, direct mail and promotional material. Implemented and managed multiple simultaneous campaigns . Managed data integrity for several internal systems. Partnered with several teams to identify sales and product awareness opportunities, as well as route efficiency for a more substantial ROI. Worked extensively with consumer analysis tools such as Scarborough Research, Nielsen Claritas (PRIZM) as well as other internal tools to identify consumer preferences, purchasing habits and patterns and develop sales & marketing strategies based on findings. Using these findings and predictive models, partners with advertising Account Executives to develop sales/product presentations to present to their customers to generate both sales and profit for both the company and customer. Collaborated with other cross-functional teams to help launch and raise awareness of our new e-commerce product.

Richfield, Minnesota, Us

Sales floor supervisor responsible for driving and managing sales & sales budget, leading my team to exceed sales budget and stretch goals on a consistent basis. Responsible for the performance, execution and performance management of my staff of up to 20+ associates and senior associates. Through customer interaction, feedback and market segmentation, I developed business rhythms that enabled my team and me to continually hit our benchmarks, assist the company in achieving the “big picture” goals and direction, as well as drive superior customer service/experience. Through on-going leadership meetings, I assisted in the SWOT opportunities of the store and company while working collaboratively with other teams to develop business plans that enabled us to execute on our opportunities and weaknesses, leading to the success of the store and company. This includes, but is not limited to, sales, P&L, inventory & logistical, consumer behavior and operating model analysis.Received abundant letters of acclamation from district managers for consistently exceeding sales metrics and developing successful teams. Using business rhythms created by my team and myself, we were able to achieve the rank of first in the company on one of the top company initiatives during that time, resulting in me being selected to attend an achiever’s seminar & development program.