Louis Ely Email & Phone Number

West,Usa

Leads, manages and coaches activities within the Retail Sales and Merchandising Organization to ensure the objectives are achieved and that analytics/insights are aligned with customers and clients scorecards. Leverages multi-functional resources (HQ Sales, Retail, Administration, Marketing) to improve results in average transaction size, tier migration, expandable consumption/HH penetration, store, brand and category loyalty.•Serves the highest revenue principal (P&G) and clients (Sam’s Club, Walmart) in a company that represents the 1-2 clients in the country in every category. Maintains strong business relationships with customers as POC on Category Management, Consumer Shopping Behavior, and Promotions Strategies.•Maintained ranking within the top 5% of thousands of employees for entire tenure; ran PepsiCo for Stacy’s Chips and Sabra Hummus, with sales up 2.5% regionally, more than 6% over any other region in the country. •Delivers corporate revenue goals within budget including principals' volume, share and sales fundamentals goals. Reached 97% Coverage, 93.7% OSA, 94.6% on Displays and Rollbacks.•Runs $25M display bonuses by gaining additional approvals from clients and overseeing manufactures' expenditures at the customer level. Develops Customer Business Plans and minimizes Sales Deduction.

Orange County, California Area

Leverages strategic negotiating skills between principals and clients, making the company millions of dollars while maintaining 95% retention rate for direct reports. Develops, supervises, monitors, trains, motivates and evaluates the retail team fulfilling the Developmental Performance Agreement System. •Recognized as a leading member of the Hormel Foods for Dilusso Deli Co. Team in the NE for four years, with Performance Reviews consistently in the top 25% of an organization of 22,000+.

New England

Unit Manager, Team Leader for merchandise service team. In store execution of Computer Automated Ordering, corporate viewer compliance audit reports. Running crews for resets and remodeling. Writing schedules and implementing new item promotions. Rotating items and implementing catalog changes. In store operation for space management. Increasing sku and end cap footage for clients. Using marketing skills to increase sales through regional and national marketing promotions. Educating employees on use of POP in order to increase product sales.

Pittsfield, Massachusetts Area

Merchandise Team Manager Responsible for setting up all display and floor layouts to company specs. Oversee all daily pricing and sales setups. Oversee all received goods and reverse logistics of products. Follow up with daily and weekly schedules for all 8030 employees. Work with regional managers and buyers to determine which products are performing and which merchandise should be replaced by new merchandise. Responsible for holding daily meetings with sales Reps. and sales Managers.

Ma,Cn,Ny

Unit Manager, Team Leader for merchandise service team. In store execution of Computer Automated Ordering, corporate viewer compliance audit reports. Running crews for resets and remodeling. Writing schedules and implementing new item promotions. Rotating items and implementing catalog changes. In store operation for space management. Increasing sku and end cap footage for clients. Using marketing skills to increase sales through regional and national marketing promotions. Educating employees on use of POP in order to increase product sales.