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Nashville, TN, US

Nashville Metropolitan Area

United States

• Oversaw Category Management & Analytics to use high-impact insights that influenced and drove strategic and tactical actions to win in the US marketplace for a +$511 MM business segment.
• Provided a holistic & integrated view of the ‘why’ and ‘what’ with the category, shopper behavior, and marketplace to help prioritize strategic & tactical initiatives with internal partners of Marketing, Sales.
• Drove incremental growth in the Gummi category by translating internal category vision to customer-specific initiatives with a specific focus on Food, Convivence, and Mass retail partners.
• Aided in Global Leadership Team harmonization of data & led US insight & business reporting
• Created, managed, & maintained business tracking & analytical insight tools for internal & external reporting
• Developed & maintained third-party relationships and budgets to strengthen win-win partnerships

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Driving consumer and manufacture business initiatives of $980 MM business segment through category strategy, insights & cross-functional collaboration.
• Create, manage, & maintain business tracking & analytical insight tools for internal and external reporting
• Work cross-functionally amongst Sales, Finance, Shopper Marketing, and Field Teams to ignite, track and execute JBP initiatives
• Unlock pillars of growth for JBP growth targets by leveraging insights into actions
• Analyze and draw planograms to help unlock growth within regional assortment
• Database management for PepsiCo custom databse ensuring accurate reporting

Chattanooga, Tennessee Area

• Drove consumer business initiatives & sales of $1.5B business through category strategy, insights & cross-functional collaboration. Lead for East Region Accounts & Personal Care Brands/Categories, $532MM of business.
• Proactively evaluated Categories developed data into insights, created & maintained best in class assortment & planograms, & presented expertise at Retailers that helped achieve multiple sale targets.
• Served as a product market manager for Personal Care Brands, with expertise in Hand & Body Lotion, First Aid/ Medicated Skin, Sleep, Medicated Shampoo, Powders, & Foot.
• Successfully created & rolled out Go to Markets throughout the entire organization, $78MM in opportunities
• Created, managed, & maintained business tracking & analytical insight tools for the company & key competition.
• Managed third party relationships by category & account.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

• Co-managed $486MM Kroger business unit.
• Worked cross-functionally with Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain, & Sales Force to execute strategic growth plans.
• Created & maintained analytical business overview & analysis to HQ, Senior Leadership, & cross-functional counterparts against market & Joint Business Plan (JBP) objectives, allowing strategic business moves.
• Developed, negotiated & organized sales plans for Kroger Pet Center Initiative Stores & Cat Categories, added 1.3MM in incremental dollars & reduced trade spend by $90K.
• Forecasted & analyzed the growth of the rollout of KPCI Stores around the nation.
• Created/Managed promotional quantities & organized shipments with the supply chain ordering team to reduce out of stocks & overages.

Cincinnati, Ohio

• Served as Category Captain for Kroger Pet Categories in order to drive results that achieved Share, Profit, & Growth through strategic, analytical thought leadership.
• Identified emerging Pet care trends & advised NPPC & Kroger Corp. Leadership on growth techniques for Pet Strategy.
• Delivered consistent category analysis overview through category & line reviews which led to incremental SKUs on the shelf.
• Utilized market data & analytic tools to provide financial analysis, custom assortment, & grow share of shelf for Category
• Incremental $7.5MM Liter Category Strategy Implemented within all Kroger Divisions
• Improved Shelving in West Coast divisions, & gained a 27 ROI for NPPC

Greater San Diego Area

Analyze Pricing, Promotion, Placement, and Profit of products to drive share and sales.Represent the company and Work with merchants and buyers on Joint Business Plans.Compile presentations to present internally and externally.

Greater Nashville Area

Drive and Manage sales within multi-million dollar territory spanning from Central Tennessee, North Georgia, Bristol, VA, and Southern Kentucky.

Auburn, Alabama Area

Leases apartments for three different properties to interested prospectsDirects creative marketing and sales strategies for area teams and properties Coordinates meetings and events for 500+ individualsManages public relations effort for select corporate eventsResponsible for administrative office work and conflict resolution between residentsAwards-Top 5.

Summer Camp Counselor, where I mentored to incoming Freshman about the transition between high school and college

Auburn, Alabama Area

Work independently and aid in experiments with research professor. Report and analyze data from experiments.

Montgomery, Alabama Area

Coordinated and facilitated workshops, seminars, health fairs, and special programs for constituents Provided administrative office duties in preparing reports, filing, correspondence Marketed and Represented organization at health fairs, corporate meetings, and community eventsCustomized and Ordered Marketing MaterialsAward-"Atta Girl" - Given the award.

Montgomery, Alabama Area

Performed administrative and clerical duties (filing, reports, correspondence)Observed cases for judge for reporting and provided assistance to law clerk