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• Develop line plans that outline specific retailer programs: retailer strategies, design, costs, price points, and packaging.• Analyze sales data, store and customer data, along with marketing information. Evaluate current product lines and future product lines for opportunities. • Manage the Walmart décor product life cycle, the largest product line with continued YOY growth and profitability.• Work with factories to secure product costs and merchandising costs including packaging. Keep an ongoing evaluation of current products and margin including customer margin and internal margin.• Recommend actual selling price of a product considering all product costs and margin requirements while knowing what price is competitive in the market.• Travel once every quarter overseas to develop product and marketing initiatives while collaborating with our Hong Kong Sourcing Team.• Travel domestically and internationally for customer meetings to present and review product attributes and cost. • Facilitate brainstorms with cross functional teams to develop new product ideas and category opportunities after identifying customer needs, market needs, and price point gaps, etc.• Promoted in April 2019 to Senior Product Manager after continued proven success. Manage and hired team in 2018.• Continue to grow and maintain customer relationship; optimal vendor for being flexible to develop new product categories.

-Assisted in managing and merchandising the assortments on the Ecommerce site to create the best shopping experience for the customer.

Excellent time management skills as demonstrated by managing jobs, school, and executive board experience with Stout Retail Association. Trustworthy with confidential information. Established problem solving skills by working independently before seeking advice/guidance.

Learned the Product Development process as it relates to buying, design, and sourcing. Analyzed sales results with retail sales information and reporting systems.Managed a time and action calendar to ensure product development milestones and deadlines are maintained. Used competitive shopping as a tool to analyze trends, pricing and assortments of various retailers.Collaborated with color, trend, cad artists, technical and design teams, sourcing, merchants, and other support teams to create a private brand merchandise assortment.

Showcased organizational skills and immense attention to detail when analyzing sales orders for accuracy per week. Efficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Well rounded product knowledge, noted by employer for knowledge of industry. Reinforced interpersonal skills when creating a new product to make sure all criteria was correct.