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Sugar Land, Texas, United States

Lead development and strategic implementation of Fiserv's SpendTrend macroeconomic reporting service. Leveraging over 90 billion annual card-based payments to design and publish bespoke reporting on consumer spending patterns across the US. Deliver best-in-class analytics and insights to our customers and their downstream clients. Manage custom enriched datasets for government agencies and business intelligence providers.

Bentonville, Ar

RCS Team Leader, Walmart Merchandising Support

Bentonville, Ar

Provide strategic guidance and category management consultancy to WalMart merchant teams, Directors and Vice-Presidents. Synthesize information from multiple syndicated data and primary research sources into comprehensive projects that drives sales, market share, and trip leadership for WalMart. Direct team and project activities to establish trust and expand influence as a domain expert within Walmart. Write departmental and category strategy frameworks, demand clustering analyses, and merchandising innovation thought leadership for WalMart and CPG audiences. Special focus on Walmart Consumables Departments (HBA, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Baby Care, Paper, Household Chemicals).

StratAdvant Consulting specializes in helping both small and large businesses understand consumer and marketplace information, with strategic methods for applying insights, and process change to their business decisions. Additionally, StratAdvant Consulting offers professional speaking services, strategic planning consultation, diversity training & teambuilding, and other custom business solutions.

Responsible for creating and deploying the systems and process change criteria for trade promotion planning and measurement.Lead development and analysis of the annual sales plans for grocery channel customers. Lead the implementation of an enterprise-wide trade promotion platform for capturing and reporting volume and profitability metrics back to organization senior leadership.Serve as liaison between sales organization and supply chain to ensure service levels and in-stock conditions are maintained.Med Foods Inc. – a subsidiary of Deoleo S.A., the No. 1 olive oil company in the world – is the premiere importer and marketer of Mediterranean food products in the United States. With a focus primarily on olive oil, our family of brands includes worldwide favorites Bertolli®, Carapelli®, and Carbonell®.

Provided strategic direction and led contract negotiations with clients’ senior executives. Identified selling opportunities and coordinated the appropriate internal resources to deliver quantifiable, targeted value and insights to grow sales and client penetration. Developed action plans using competitive intelligence.

Acquired new clients in untapped retail sectors for Nielsen. Conducted needs assessments for prospective clients to determine their priority business issues and designed solutions to directly address these issues. Created compelling value propositions to establish relevance and trust in Nielsen solutions. Built relationships with executive-level decision-makers. Accounts included Costco Wholesale, Home Depot, Lowe’s, ACE Hardware, 99Cents Only Stores.

Reported to Chief Category Management Officer. Designed and deployed process improvement criteria and support systems for teams in twelve US and Canadian markets. Created and implemented new SOP’s and methodologies for assortment optimization, relationship pricing, merchandising execution, and shelf space optimization. Developed training program for category managers on all decision support tools. Negotiated contracts and managed relationships with all 3rd party syndicated and consumer data suppliers.

Managed relationships and negotiated contracts for all syndicated data suppliers. Designed and deployed scorecards and custom analytical tools. Streamlined reporting processes by automation and elimination of non-essential activities. Combined market basket data and other information sources to improve assortment, promotion, pricing, and space allocation. Compiled and presented annual business reviews of top 50 supplier partners to executive board. Conducted split-signal advertising test market studies. Company-wide trainer for primary decision support / analysis tools. Subject Matter Expert for assortment and data integrity.

On-site Analyst at The Quaker Oats Company, Dallas Regional Office