Sherry Hoffman Email & Phone Number

Bentonville, Ar, Us

Bentonville, Ar.

Represent suppliers business for Wal-Mart & Sam's Cub

Bentonville

Sales Rep for National Retail accounts in the U.S. including Sam's Club, Costco, BJ’s and Capitol Christian.• Managed buyout and transition of $16M Independent Film product portfolio between Anderson DVD distribution & Alchemy.• Represented and worked with over 28 supplier product lines including DreamWorks, Classic Media, PBS and Music Box Films to develop exclusives, as well as channel strategies for placing product in major retail locations as well as growing their brands.

Bentonville, Ar

Wal-Mart Dotcom, Sam’s Club, & Sam’s Dotcom Photo Department, focus on growing the Home Décor creative business, annual sales revenue $200M+• Meet or exceed annual corporate quotas by driving company initiatives to improve P&L metrics.• Develop go-to market strategies and tactics to grow sales, profit and market share.• Work with cross functional teams to create, execute, & optimize all marketing and sales initiatives while sustaining a profitable value proposition.• Collaborate and develop initiatives with approx. 12 different 3rd party suppliers that are integrated with Fujifilm.• Manage all product and content launches with catalog team to stay within iteration timelines.• Cross pollinate with systems software development team, engineers, marketing and product specialist in order to create best fit products for customer and to create proficiencies within our own structure. • The liaison for internal and external teams to ensure projects are meeting deadlines and any issues are resolved and communicated in a timely manner.

Strategic Retail Consulting, Product Development, and Supply Chain Mgt. for import and domestic business.

Managed and coordinated all aspects of retail import business for Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club US, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. • Established Tollytots as a company within Wal-Mart and Sam’s while reporting directly to company owner and working closely with Hong Kong office. • Developed Go-To-Market plans and implement the plans to ensure maximum profitability and to gain market share. • Analyze performance data to help make buying recommendations. Provided forecasting and frequent monitoring inventory levels, orders, and shipment tracking. • Effectively communicate and strategize with Canadian and international sales rep firms on Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club business.• Assist in product development based on research of industry trends.

Bentonville, Ar.

• Responsible for buying $300M+ to maximize sales and profit, while reducing sku’s and inventory thru progressive buying decisions.• Strategic financial planning of budgets and forecasts for two high risk categories.• Be able to visualize and understand fashion trends for particular industry in order to offer and implement the correct product mix that is new, unique and a great value to the customer.

Bentonville, Ar

Seasonal categories: Lawn and Garden, Sporting Goods, Toys, and Seasonal Holiday. • Facilitated and executed all projects due from buyers to DMM of Seasonal categories, buyer budgets, forecast, marketing plans and ensuring that all deadlines are met. Organized the year beginning and fall managers meetings for all seasonal categories

Gulfport, Ms & Springdale, Ar.

All aspects of club.• Operations manager – understand and use company reports. P&L, sales budgets, and expenses.• Successfully implement warehouse controls, appearance, maintenance and Safety/Security• Run the front end which consists of cashiers, refunds, membership and marketing. Approximately 80 to 100 associates.• Capitalize club involvement with the Chamber of Commerce for marketing purposes.• Merchandise manager – Ensure that the club layout reflects the business philosophy and responsible for inventory control.• Execute monthly planner, company merchandise programs, and respond to seasonal changes. Use the tools of the trade to teach merchandising to partners.

Bentonville, Ar

Freezer/Cooler Categories• Responsible for maintaining 98% in stock in the freezer category that produced approximately $600M in retail sales. Cooler produced approximately $400M in retail sales.• Lead and empower a team of 8 associates. Teach all the techniques, procedures, equipment and materials required to perform duties and meet the department objectives.• Utilize all tools to manage and maintain required instock. Inforem reports, DSS exception reports, and check profiles to make sure that committed amounts are in line with sales.• Communicate with suppliers clearly and concisely to keep them informed of expectations and working together in order to be proficient in delivery of goods.• Attended all management classes. Walton Institute, Management Policies, Leadership foundations, Supervisory Skills and Inventory management. Attended Dale Carnage to improve leadership skills.

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