Roberta Braun Carmody, Mba Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Co, Us

Denver Metropolitan Area

Golden, Colorado, United States

In this position, I was responsible for all purchasing needs. Vitrazza is the leader in the Glass Office Chair Mat industry. My purchasing duties included inventory management, forecasting, scheduling, purchasing, and vendor relationship management. Negotiation is key to getting the best pricing and service from all parties. I used my strong Excel skills to maintain accurate inventory levels.

In this position, I supervised, mentored, and coached my team that was responsible for producing and designing print, merchandise, and permanent merchandise. I continually challenged my team to source and research new ideas, items, graphics, vendors, and technologies via multiple outlets. I leveraged branding strategies, compiled market data, and identified consumer trends to develop and deliver promotional materials supporting national retail marketing efforts. I utilized my project management knowledge, highly developed detail orientation, and organizational skills, I run multiple jobs at one time in different stages of development. I have produced multiple displays that have won OMA and Design of The Times Awards. I developed retail tools for a product re-launch that increased sales on a declining brand. I also assisted in creating a brand platform that helped make Redd's become one of the nation's fastest-growing brands in its category. Skilled at onboarding new clients by learning their internal processes and procedures to determine alignment with our internal workflow. Throughout this process, I discovered time-saving steps to get artwork through our system at an expedited pace. I was able to determine areas of duplication creating cost savings by not developing like elements multiple times. I have been developing process manuals for team members to utilize how to navigate different systems used by clients. This helps cross-train and onboard new team members at a fast pace.

As a Senior Production Manager, I yearly produced over 3.5 million dollars of print, merchandise and permanent merchandise elements for Coors Brewing Company. I managed internal creative expectations and external suppliers to get production jobs done; fast, efficiently and within budget. Throughout the process I had to coordinate all production functions, including estimates, bids, construction specs, prototype development and fulfillment. Managing communication between manufacturers, account teams and warehouse personnel, expedited product orders. Distribution was key in successfully implementing jobs on time and in budget.

In my Account Executive roll I conducted and oversaw all procurement operations including requisitions, purchase orders, price negotiation, receiving and delivery verification for Coca-Cola, Coors Brewing Company and Iomega promotional merchandise elements. I developed in-depth inventory and Point of Sale analysis and forecast methods to limit liability and maximize availability. While working on these accounts I produced dual branded promotional merchandise elements with licensed vendors for Disney, Harry Potter, ESPN, NFL, NBA, and NHL. Extensive knowledge of the NFL Policies and procedures.

Used extensive customer service skills to service Coors Brewing Company national clients with program order details and shipping questions. Coordinated all functions of domestic and overseas shipping and fulfillment of point-of-purchase materials, incentives for client promotions across the U.S. Developed procedural manuals for logistics and account coordinators on TIG processes and databases that I used to train logistics and account coordinators. Transferred to TIG Atlanta to train new employees.

Mba, Business, Accounting, Marketing

Bs, Marketing, Minor: Mass Communications (Advertising Sequence)

Activities and Societies: Delta Zeta