Mindi King Email & Phone Number

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Bentonville, Ar

• Grow sales totaling over $55MM+ in annual sales• Manage annual trade budget to grow sales in 5 categories• Collaborate with retailer and marketing to drive new innovation and drive sales within trade budgets• Work with logistics to maintain/improve in-stocks and maximize supply chain operations• Develop and mentor direct and indirect reports• Collaboration with internal teams and Sam's Club MAP team to budget and execute digital programs

Bentonville, Arkansas

• Manage annual trade budget to meet internal volume targets of our 20+ items with Sam's Club• Optimize available trade to drive promotional activity, while collaborating with goals and expectations of retailer• Collaborate with the retailer to gain distribution on new innovation• Coordination of cross-functional teams to implement Sam’s Club eCommerce online requirements• Work with logistics to maintain/improve in-stocks and maximize supply chain operations• Implement new items with McLane, logistics, and retailer for new items

Bentonville, Arkansas

• Provided support for Breakfast Meats Brands ($350M account) as well as provided maternity coverage for customer business manager. • Provided analysis and recommendations for expanded distribution of tortillas projected at an additional $750k/yr• Led internal meetings and presented to buyers, planners and replenishers• Provided insights and recommendations to customer based on IRI, Consumer Insights, and Retail Link data• Promotional scripting; Rollback Analysis, Sell Thru Analysis, New Item Analysis

Bentonville, Arkansas

• Supported $350M account - “2nd on the desk” to Customer Business Manager• Provided support for Canned Meats, Microwave and Hispanic/Tex-Mex Brands• Provided analysis and recommendations for expanded distribution of tortillas projected at an additional $750k/yr• Led internal meetings and presented to buyers, planners and replenishers• Provided insights and recommendations to customer based on IRI, Consumer Insights, and Retail Link data• Promotional scripting; Rollback Analysis, Sell Thru Analysis, New Item Analysis

Bentonville, Arkansas

• Provide supporting item and modular analysis for Wal-Mart Chilled Meals across 5 finelines).• Build the Fall modular and a mini Spring for the Wal-Mart Chilled Meals (1,000 modulars).• Primary contact for Wal-Mart modular planner for any store calls, new stores, or remodels that are in need of different modular.• Provide buyer with weekly updates on new-item and modular performance.• Provide buyer with recommendations of expansions, deletions, and where to place new items for the Fall modular.• Responsible for weekly reporting to internal team• Analyze promotions by SKU and by store, identifying opportunities for growth and improvement.

Bentonville, Ar

• Developed Joint Business Planning (JBP) Planning process for planning process with Walmart • Worked closely with Customer Business Managers to develop sales plans for new products• Developed sales opportunities for existing items• ROI Analysis on promotions to determine effective trade usage.• Weekly analysis of Promotional Sell Thru, Rollback Analysis; FSI Analysis, Instock; Percent to Forecast and other Ad Hoc reports as required.• Worked with Retail Operations teams to ensure store execution of promotions • SSO Analysis for promotions as well as Store of the Community analysis for additional sales opportunities.• Led, mentored and on-boarded new Analysts

• Developed SOTC tracking tool for new item launch to determine selling patterns and store opportunities.• Weekly analysis of Promotional Sell Thru, Rollback Analysis; FSI Analysis, Instock; Percent to Forecast and other Ad Hoc reports as required.• Worked with DRT team to obtain support with Return Authorizations, Promotional Display • SSO Analysis for promotions as well as Store of the Community analysis for additional sales opportunities.• Coordinated efforts to update Retail Link Item Files (Data Sync)• Tested third party analysis tool (Decisions Made Easy)• Training and development of other Analysts

• Actively led weekly team meetings to provide weekly sales results, giving input regarding sell thrus, market trends, competition, etc.• Developed tracking tool by category and brand for LW, L4W and YTD POS Dollars and Unit Sales trends.• Weekly analysis of Promotional Sell Thru, Rollback Analysis; FSI Analysis, Instock; Percent to Forecast and other Ad Hoc reports as required.• Worked with DRT team to obtain support with Return Authorizations, Promotional Display Support on monthly features and individual store sales of Ponds Hispanic Sidekicks – resulting in 156 incremental sidekick sales.• SSO Analysis for promotions as well as Store of the Community analysis for additional sales opportunities.• Interacted with Buyer to determine proper promotional quantities and suggest various promotional plans.• Developed Competitive Pricing Tracker – tool became highly visible and important for the Brand and Planning teams when forecasting.• HPC Team member for ERO Tool project.• Special Project: Assisting Category Manager on Gifting Categoryo Met with Buyer to discuss modular strategy and product placemento Drew modulars in ProSpace

• Developed presentations and actively participated in quarterly meetings with Buyers regarding existing product performance and new product presentations. These meetings resulted the addition of two new promotional products.• Worked with Stationery team by analyzing existing modular and develop new modular plan, including adjacencies.• Weekly analysis of Promotional Sell Thru, Rollback Analysis; FSI Analysis, Instock; Percent to Forecast and other Ad Hoc reports as required.• Deseasonalized Demand Analysis to determine proper DDs at store level. This resulted in increased store level distribution and increased sales.• Store of the Community projects completed to determine proper product placement. • SSO analysis for instock and promotional product placement.• Interacted with Buyer to determine proper promotional quantities and suggest various promotional plans.• Successfully integrated Retail Link data with Velocity Software to create uniform weekly reports for Account Team.

• Successfully implemented Project Management software for use in scheduling of projects.• Resolved Liability, Workers Compensation & Auto Insurance issues.• Completed and determined billing issues regarding problem situations.• Managed projects for five (5) Project Managers.• Coordinated information between Contractors, General Contractors, Superintendents.

• Managed multi-million dollar construction budgets for 70+ Facilities • Management Construction projects.• Analyzed and monitored network facilities inventories to determine building inventory requirements.• Developed cost and feasibility studies for managing decisions regarding inventory management.• Developed yearly inventory forecasts and budget requirements.• Prepared and negotiated customer contracts.• Professionally resolved customer issues that resulted in increased customer satisfaction. • Developed processes that reduced management time and effort for customer equipment installations.

• Developed and updated pricing cost models.• Collaborated with sales management to resolve problems, resulting in improved customer relations.• Analyzed pricing requests to determine cost-effective pricing for purpose of sales bids and quotes.

• Forecasted resources for A/E design and production.• Created scheduling processes for clients, such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Circuit City.