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Arlington, Tx

Arlington, Tx

Vistar (a division of Performance Food Group), Arlington, TXPurchasing Manager- 11/2013- 01/2020

Denton,Tx

Purchase over 1500 equestrian and clothing products for retail store and catalog sales. Responsible for all re-buying functions from order placement through PO receipt. Monitor seasonal and promotional inventory fluctuations.Key Accomplishments:Reduced backorders from over 8% to fewer than 3%. Exceeding the company goal of 5%Reduced excess inventory by over $100,000Reduced overall inventory by over $300,000

Arlington Heights, Il

Purchase over 1000 gourmet specialty foods for independent and chain accounts. Responsible for all purchasing functions from order placement through PO receipt. Monitor seasonal and promotional inventory fluctuations. Process and solicit vendor promotions for all customers. Create promotional materials for marketing department.Key Accomplishments: Increased service level from 85% to over 96.5%.Increased turns to over 12 while reducing warehouse and customer spoils.Work closely with Marketing and Sales to ensure adequate inventory of holiday and seasonal items.Led team to standardize margins for all product categories.Plan special events at food shows and sales meetings.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Full store merchandising of gourmet specialty foods, general merchandise and health & beauty products. Sell and build promotional displays.Key Accomplishments:Significantly increased distribution of all products by increasing allocated shelf space on customer plan-o-grams. Team lead of over 20 3rd party merchandisers to complete most store sets in 5 days. Led team in rollout blitz of $1.00 aisle program.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Meet client and Company objectives by maintaining full distribution on all authorized SKU's. Maintain client objectives by insuring all authorized client items represented on the shelf have accurate and complete tags and making certain that unsalable or out-of-code product is removed. Increase sales volume through promotional activity by selling and building displays, creating themes with related items to support holiday/special promo events, and making plan-o-gram adjustments when necessary. Maintain schematic standards by insuring all authorized items are in distribution and set to shelf standards. Increase promotional effectiveness through placement of appropriate point of sale material and displays. Increase new item distribution through product rotation, elimination of out-of-code product.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Manage and grow sales to independent convenience stores using a consultive sales approach to sell promotional displays and introduce new items.Key Accomplishments:Increased sales in territory by over 25%. Added over 20 new accounts through cold calling.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Purchase over 000 gourmet specialty foods and Natural foods for independent and chain accounts. Responsible for all purchasing functions from order placement through PO receipt. Monitor seasonal and promotional inventory fluctuations. Process and solicit vendor promotions for all customers. Create promotional materials for marketing department. Evaluated vendor performance and selected items to add and delete from inventory.Key Accomplishments: Negotiated better pricing and payment terms with several vendors.Led team in conversion to E-3 purchasing system.Led the sourcing of items needed for the addition of Wild Oats stores to our customer base.

Stroud, Ok

Managed over 3000 sku’s. Analyze daily sales and out of stock reports and created purchase orders as necessary. Resolve any pricing discrepancies. Secure promotional items and ad monies. Coordinate annual food show. Select items to add and delete from inventory. Maintained pricing and set gross profit it margins. Developed Plan-O-Grams. Key Accomplishments:Developed yearly sales contest that resulted in a profit of over $100,000Grew vendor participation in annual food show.Lowered cost of goods through negotiating better pricing from vendors and negotiating better freight rates.Managed the growth of inventory as company sales increased from $5 million annually to over $15 million annually.

Stroud, Ok

Supervised team of 2 merchandisers. Made headquarter calls to increase sales and develop plan-o-grams.Led team in store resets and new item blitzes.Key Accomplishments:Increased item distribution.Reduced product spoils and customer returns by over 25%