Robert Briggs Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

This role involves start-to-finish project ownership.Tasks I am familiar and comfortable with are;- Project Plan deck creation and updating.- Incident/Risk/Decision logging, planning, and resolution.- Clear and concise weekly status updates.- Regular leadership of design and design review calls both with functional members and/or 3rd party developers.- Ability to adapt verbiage of solutions and issues for specific audience.- Design doc review and approval.- Functional and Technical test case creation.- UAT testing. This includes test case creation, functional testing coordination, and technical testing.- Adequate, but not overbearing, communication of key project milestones.- Go-live planning and checklists.- Support and functional on-boarding.- Temporary support post go-live.- Recognition of team efforts, as well as lessons learned post go-live.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Communicate with all levels of business to gather requirements, provide statuses and collaborate on incident management.Documentation including: business processes, data mapping, visio diagrams, data dictionaries, test plan and test validation, bug logging in ServiceNow, daily status reports on prioritized issues.Constant collaboration and open communication with regards to project and task execution.Ability to switch tasks effectively based on intradaily reprioritization.Meticulously organized and effective task management for myself and peers where deliverables are dependent upon completion of their tasks.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Communicate with all levels of business to gather requirements, provide statuses and collaborate on incident management.Documentation including: business processes, data mapping, visio diagrams, data dictionaries, test plan and test validation, bug logging in JIRA, daily status reports on prioritized issues. Constant collaboration and open communication with regards to project and task execution.Ability to switch tasks effectively based on intradaily reprioritization.Meticulously organized and effective task management for myself and peers where deliverables are dependent upon completion of their tasks.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Test script creation/execution for Point of Sale, EDI and several integrations with third parties that support Replenishment, Price Optimization, Pharmacy, Loyalty, and MethCheck. Manage a changing team of testers to triage and resolve issues.Work with third parties to resolve issues or proposed change requests required to meet business requirements.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Trade & Logistics SME for ERP migration projectDesign and training sessions for the following modules: Inventory Management, Product Management, and Pricing and Discounts. Participation in active brainstorming and critical planning sessions with multiple team members.Participation in testing with multiple team members to ensure program compliance with business needs.Contribution, as well as some ownership, of design documentation and standard operating procedures for program features for the new system.Participation in demo presentations given to stakeholders of the stakeholder committee.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Manage company wide inventory levels to maximize sales, in stock, and GP%.Manage warehouse inventory levels in order to react to sales trends, seasonality, and budgeted inventory levels in order to maintain a flow of merchandise, maximizing store service levels, turnover, in-stock position and productivity of the Distribution Center inventory.Partner with Buyer/Category Manager to identify items for mark down plans to manage overstocks and leftover promotional items.Partner with store managers and operations to identify items for auto/assisted ordering.Responsible for managing departmental open to buy to ensure inventory levels match budgeted sales.Create buy plans for core OTC merchandise.Responsible for updating demand forecasts.Partner with stores and warehouse personnel in order to ensure prompt and complete critical shipments with a sense of urgency.Submit purchase orders to vendors.Maintain vendor scorecards to ensure performance and compliance by our vendors.Support company and departmental initiatives with a positive attitude and sense of urgency.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Continual optimization and scenario analysis of all store departments. Utilization of KSS software and competitive data analysis to determine the best retail prices for each department.Successful defense of past implemented pricing endeavors.Direct oversight of the Pricing Coordinator position.Multiple presentations based on current pricing strategy to large groups of high level team members.Critical analysis of both successful and unsuccessful pricing initiatives.Advancement of closeout programs via applied methods from past successful closeout endeavors.High level critical decision making of high impact solutions for the good of the company.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Optimization and scenario analysis of all store departments. Utilization of KSS software and competitive data analysis to determine the best retail prices for each department.Growth in profit in excess of $590,000 (annualized) for 2014.Growth in sales in excess of $3,500,000 (annualized) for 2014.Successful optimizations of more than 40 categories ranging in size from 50 SKUs to 750 SKUs.High attention to detail and planning when dealing with vendor cost increases.In-depth analysis of an inventory and GPM controlling sell-thru process.Occasional help with the IT department to address and fix critical system errors.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Critical analysis of products, both new and old. Space planning analysis in JDA software based on product movement, as well as category growth initiatives.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Worked core hours of business to ensure functionality of store operations, as well as practice high level of customer service. Direct small teams of cashiers to abide by the highest levels of customer service and merchandising standards.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Greet guests upon entry and as they approach the counter to check out.Handle transactions via cashier terminal.Build end displays for maximum guest impact.Order for, and maintain, the photo department.Work directly with guests to aid them through photo processing.Abide my merchandising standards to implement planograms provided by the corporate office.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Geology/Earth Science, General

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Geology/Earth Science, General