Michele Wind Email & Phone Number

Hopkins, MN

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Procure processed meats for company’s largest region with 3 distribution centers; maintain 95.5% service level.
• Nurture collaborative relationships with Meat Director, store leaders, regional staff and vendors.
• Review item out of stock, price change, and short code date reports to identify potential issues, to communicate necessary actions across region, and to minimize losses.
• Coach buyers on meat commodity market conditions, buying strategies, merchandising techniques, product processing, seasonal items, innovation, and private brand development.
• Identified issues with inputting of promotional information; took initiative to createa process in turn improved fill rate on promotional needs and service levels.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota

• Finalized contract agreements in excess of $12 million, exceeding fiscal year commitments.
• Negotiated $5.3 million cost-of-goods savings during a fiscal period reflecting a 13.8% rise in inflation.
• Increased sales year-over-year by 1.78% and maintained a sales margin of 2.83%.
• Drove private label penetration by 46.7% through aggressive cost-of-goods and product/label management.
• Transformed an underperforming case study program through identifying a solution and developing a strategy to implement low-cost initiative to retailers and drive sales; maintained labor costs.~ Negotiated $1.6 million.
• Negotiated all centralized banner pork programs, seasonal inventory, wholesale rebate programs, monthly collective buys, daily wholesale bids, buy requests, private label programs for retail/wholesale.

Chanahassen, Minnesota

• Championed a service level higher than 97% with minimal discounting/shrink through managing perishable meat inventory control across four SuperValu distribution centers.
• Sourced and analyzed market information to make sound buying decisions.
• Impacted negotiations through forging solid corporate vendor relations.~ Influenced corporate profitability and competitive pricing by negotiating best possible cost-of-goods.
• Captured competitive promotion pricing by articulating current and out-front market conditions.

Chanahassen, Minnesota

• Provided pork trade levels across all regions, created purchase orders, and placed orders with corporate vendors; reviewed vendor confirmations to ensure quantities and pricing.
• Ensured delivery and expedited late deliveries, and created all pork, seafood, and turkey invoices.
• Generated Lost Sales, Purchase Order Detail, and ROII Inventory Summary reports.
• Served as Member and Captain of the EDI Team for Corporate Meat Systems.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota

• Issued current market data on a regional scale, ensured best possible pricing/corporate vendor negotiations, and received, placed, confirmed, and billed processed meat/poultry orders across all divisions.
• Expedited late order delivery to distribution center.
• Liaised between corporate vendors and regional representatives to resolve conflicts.
• Supported FMS Meat Merchandising Assistant and Corporate Meat Buyer.