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California, United States

San Diego, California, Us

i) Marketing Category Expense Managementii) Procurement Managementiii) Contract Management

San Diego, California, Us

i) Participate in the planning, development and execution of the corporation global sourcing planii) Work closely with Sourcing Managers, Product Development, Merchandising and Inventory Management to ensure product quality and timely deliveryiii) Leverage a highly fact-based and analytical approach to work across business units and across functions to identify opportunities to reduce costs, improve service and qualityiv) Maintain and improve the efficiency and quality of manufacturing partnersv) Communicate with overseas vendors as well as domestic based (for both direct import and domestic procurement programs) regarding existing and potential new programs and items

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Optimize assortment and increase profitability of the top selling category that accounts for $310 million in sales annuallyi) Expand product selection to more than 2,200 parts, an increase of 6% annuallyii) Execute pricing strategies based on market trends and competitioniii) Negotiate cost• Strategize on ways to drive business and support sales force of over 1,300 associatesi) Conduct product knowledge trainingii) Work cross functionally to develop and implement effective marketing campaignsiii) Build strong vendor relationships to optimize product assortment and better negotiate costs

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Managed incentive compensation for 200+ Hospitality and Healthcare sales team members based on defined ROI metrics• Territory Managementi) Designed and implemented 200+ sales territories based on financial and sales objectivesii) Provided analysis to support the design of sales territories. Set up training packages, territory planning workbooks, and a visualization tooliii) Proposed and worked with IT to design a backup, offline program to increase productivity• Utilized a dashboard to provide key insights to executives to drive profitable growth. Provided recommendations based on findings and analysis

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Database Analysis and Design - Developed new and modified existing programs and reports to improve data accuracy• Reporting, Analytics and Forecasting - Created action-oriented reporting in Access databases based on key company metrics to measure actual performance against established company goals• Competitive Intelligencei) Served as team analyst and project lead to research and implement a competitive intelligence platform for the companyii) Developed and conducted secondary research to monitor and analyze main competitors. Prepared reports and recommendations to aid in the creation of sales action plans

• Distinguished career as naval officer with various assignments• Recipient of US Air Force Commendation Medal

Mba, Business Administration

Ba, Linguistics