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Centennial, Colorado, United States

Englewood, Colorado

• Pricing Specialist, analytical and tactical support through systems reports and support of various processeso Independently manage key accounts for pricing, discounts/billbacks and associated margin/mark ups. Insure accuracy for line pricing and data retention through audits of bid files. Daily monitoring of pricing requests, including system set up, review of accuracy and support documentation. • Monitor financial aspects of market segment reports, identifying low margin items against accuracy of costs, standard mark up and resulting sell price. • Review Retail Promotions to insure pricing accuracy and set up prior to orders. • Respond quickly and efficiently to rush requests due to pending orders related to failures in system connections between customer submitted pricing vs business driven standards for mark up. • Maintain and review support documentation related to customer pricing discounts supported by billbacks to suppliers. • Provide accuracy in filing of support documentation on discounts needed in case of supplier dispute. • Assist in review of system list costs upon receipt of price lists from suppliers. Systems, analyze details relevant to sell price, cost and mark up via Power BI, Cognos, Access, heavy focus on Excel. Process Documentation creation on best practices and process steps insuring data accuracy and consistency. Review accuracy in costs, pricing and analytics to insure systems identify and support adjustments to standard practice.

Parker, Co

West Chicago, Il

Business reporting and analytics, special projects, internal and external sales support.

Radon Testers Inc (7/2013 - present) : provide consultation for business services, process improvements, streamline internal procedures, support staff with issue identificaiton and best practice resolutions. TGEGU (1/2011 - present) : provides onsite four season container design, companion gardening and garden consulting services. Coordinating transition from manual processes to computer based, managing inventory and billing, initiating best practices to streamline processes and support for website and marketing.Menlo Worldwide Logistics (11/11 - 1/13) : See belowDow Chemical (11/10 - 4/13): See below

Greater Chicago Area

Seeking a position or clients in need of Supply Chain area of project management and business analysis. Strong focus on best practices, design implementation, training and continuous improvement. Excellent organizational and detailed skills in systems and SAP. Passion for problem solving and customer focus.

Wheaton Il

(2013) Demand Planning Support during transitional employee phase. Learned systems and quickly adapted to fill in for open positions as needed to insure smooth operations and continued supplies from North American plants and warehouses. (2012) Tax Exemption Certificate collection project, identified requiements, pulled data, and worked with business on identifiying needs. Communicated with customers, business personnel and tax department to fulfill legal requirements around Tax Exemption Certifacte Requirements for US customers.(2010-2011) Worked with the Data Readiness Team to insure a smooth transition into the NEA (Next Enterprise Architecture) SAP Project, worldwide rollout.

Aurora Il

Customer Service Trainnig created and provided to 40+ personal in Load Planning and Transporation Specialists in the Aurora location.Training plan development for new hires and organization of existing training documentation for existing employees.

Led several cross functional teams to implementation of best practices and policy transitions during the integration of Rohm & Haas Company as acquired by Dow Chemical.

Led efforts on cross functional understanding of policies and practices to prepare for integration into Dow Chemical. Subject Matter Expert position on elite Integration Team (3 heritage/15 Dow personnel) worked to insure implementation of best practices and processes.

Lead various cross functional teams in process optimization, integrating knowledge of current status, improvement opportunities and rollout of best practices.

Pilot Team, Training Coordinator, Chicago Site Team Lead for organizational rolled out SAP, specilaizing in Order To Cash functional groups across organization.

Created and maintained systems and policy training documentation including MRPII Class A. Coordinated and maintained training records for specific business and functional needs.