Nate Herrington Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

KMG (Kinneberg Management Group) is a full service Sales Representative / Brokerage / Vendor Management firm providing a wealth of knowledge and trust. We deliver on our goal of consistently providing meaningful value to our clients and retail partners. We have a unique perspective on how to best build relationships while delivering results. We cover the Mass Channel: Target & Walmart, along with Sam's Club, Best Buy, and Amazon. Our expertise ranges from long term planning (strategy, JBP, product launches, multichannel marketing) to tactical deliverables (analytics, inventory management, forecasting, supply chain, reporting) creating an optimal solution for our vendors and retail partners. Hustle + Data & Insights + Strategy = Success. This approach has been rewarded by Retailers with Supplier/Vendor of the Year and Outstanding Partnership Awards, and by Brands/Suppliers with Broker of the Year Awards.Nate's focus currently is in Grocery, Healthcare, and Personal Care. His experience includes working with brands in: Dry Grocery, Snacks, Candy, Beverage, Pet, Frozen Food, Perishables, Fresh, Baby (commodity & hard/soft goods), Trading Cards, Toys, Pets, Household Cleaning, Paper, Laundry, Beauty, OTC Healthcare, Seasonal, Checklane, Licenses, and more... Visit us in Minneapolis or Bentonville and connect with me directly at nate.herrington@kmgtgroup.com or 612.532.0250.http://www.kinnebergmanagementgroup.com

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Client engagements with small-to-mid size CPG companies with the goal of growing their business to the next level. Business plan development, branding, marketing, financial modeling, and holistic business assessments are a few of the consultancy offerings.

Minneapolis

Co-founded numerous small businesses for the purpose of giving back to the community. Ranging from experiential services to branded merchandise, these companies not only fulfilled a niche in the market place and grew at a rate of 2x-growth per year on average, they gave back through: monetary donations, betterment to the culture & community, and raised awareness of organizations that do GOOD. Personally, these experiences have rounded out my overall business acumen and broadened my professional networks.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Held a variety of roles as a Sr. Buyer and/or Merchandising Manager within core merchandising at Target. These roles spanned across Grocery (center-of-store/dry, snacks/bev/candy, frozen & fresh), Baby (commodities, hard, and soft-goods), Pet, and Household Essentials/Commodities. Within the five roles held, each consisted of holistic business management from P&L ownership of up to +$1.5Bn business segments, marketing & promotional planning and influence (both internally within Target and collaboratively influencing brands/vendors of Target), demand planning & inventory accountability, and strategic merchandising and assortment decisions. Team leadership included direct management of 1 to five team members guiding their development, learning and ultimately their performance. This included formalized talent planning sessions, reviews, and corporate HR procedures/processes. In addition, there was cross-functional teams of up to twenty team members which were influentially lead by the merchandising vision I set forth. Successfully led business growth in each role, led team to feel engaged & empowered, and build strong rapport internally & externally of Target. These efforts were recognized with numerous awards, fastest growth of business, and corporate recognition.

Minneapolis / Washington Dc

As a Strategy & Operations consultant, I worked in a diversified set of industries and on a breadth of projects at over 16 clients in my nearly 4 year tenure. Industries included: Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare Providers, & High Tech. Project work included: mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, post-merger integration, new product development, industry benchmarking, operational consolidation, and technology implementation. Functional expertise included: business process development, financial business case development, financial modeling, process integration, go-to-market strategies, new product launch strategies, strategy development, and project management. All clients served were fortune 500 companies that were located in various geographies in the US, including: Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Portland, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Columbus, and Des Moines.

Minneapolis, Mn

Financial Analyst on the Capital Financial Analysis & Reporting team which worked on financial models for capital expenditures. The primary project I lead through the Summer Internship was post-project Analysis of 11 key capital expenditures include new stores, the new headquarters building, Best Buy Rewards loyalty program, and Best Buys version of Netflix. In addition, my work on creating the methodology for they type of lease structures to use when opening new stores that resulted in the optimal NPV/IRR was presented to the Capital Planning Committee which included the CEO, COO, and the broader cross-functional team involved in approving Capital Expenditures.

Conducted competitive analysis, complete financial modeling, and assisted in the writing of Equity Research reports and quarterly briefs/EPS estimates on public traded med-tech and bio-tech small-to-mid size companies.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Worked on a team to develop sales leads, analyze client portfolios, and build a financial advisory business. Obtained Series 6 & 63 securities exchange licenses.

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance And Entreprenuership

Bs, Finance & Entreprenuership

Activities and Societies: Supply Chain & Operations Management Club; Students of Accounting and Finance club; Student Activities Office.