Mark Gillespie Email & Phone Number

Blue Ash, Ohio

4680 Parkway Drive Suite 305 Mason, Ohio 45040

Newtown, Ohio

Amberley Village, Ohio

Nashville, Tn

Dollar General Associate Category Management Manager

• Supported ALL aspects of creating and executing the High/Low sales and promotional plan for all Kroger Divisions for Personal Wash, Hand Body and Face Care, Cotton, and recently divested Laundry businesses• Acted as the 2nd point of contact to Kroger when CBM was unavailable and established relationships with individuals across Kroger’s Sales Planning, Finance, and Procurement Offices• Created, reviewed, and submitted promotional event contracts using Kroger’s web-based financial system• Developed Ad Sheets, Endcap Explosion, and Sales Plan Summaries for Kroger and internal Unilever CD Team to help communicate promotional prices, event duration, and display support for all events• Created new item forms for innovation, displays, Gaylord bins, bonus packs to support Kroger distribution• Maintained a log of Kroger item numbers and linked UPCs for open stock and displays • Maintained Over/Under documents to quickly compare promotional activity by brand vs prior year• Helped to build a post-promotional event summary (pilot) to summarize Kroger POS, Nielsen, dunnhumby data to determine event effectiveness• Supported Regional Sales Managers by communicated monthly plan and assisted in regional support such as Food 4 Less Summer bar program and Race to Savings programs.• Ensured all financial event files were compliant with Unilever Audit standards• Pulled all event invoice back-up and supporting factory shipment volume and validated event performance was executed by Kroger Divisions, and wrote repayment letters to non-performing divisions• Worked with CBM to summarize over 130 unique annual events. Organized invoices, ensure adequate funding was available in AMPS, and cleared deductions.• Tracked under tolerance and identified mark-down invoices to transfer bills to brand• Processed all price and pack change documents with Kroger. Followed up on issues where price discrepancies arose to correct pricing in Kroger’s system.

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