Sherry Zimmermann is a business professional with over twenty years of experience in the CPG industry working in leadership, operations, data, consulting, and procurement roles. She has a proven track record of driving products through the end-to-end lifecycle, including R&D, supply chain, category management, P & L, consumer sales, and analytics. Sherry’s passion for data and the grocery industry began in the retail aisles with an interest in ingredients, formulations, and customer interactions. She soon climbed the ranks to corporate category management and assisted Natural Grocers to expand from 22 stores to 146 locations. After moving to sunny California, Sherry moved into a new chain category management and procurement role with an emphasis on data analytics. The marriage between Sherry’s love for data analytics and her background in category management, retail, warehouse logistics, and supply chain was realized in her role as a consultant and data analyst for new and emerging manufacturers and brands in the retail space. In this role, she was able to build dashboards, marketing, investor decks, and reporting for `18 clients resulting in improved internal operations and product or brand adoption for Top Retailers such as Whole Foods Market, Sprouts Farmers Market, Fresh Thyme, and Target.Sherry is a technically minded manager who is comfortable using Tableau, Looker Studio (Google Data Studio), advanced Excel, and other analysis tools to mine data for strategic insights that can ultimately result in operational and sales improvements. Sherry specializes in:• Negotiations and Program Management• Procurement and Quality Control• Retail and operational analysis and leadership• Multi-Site operation experience• Effective communication & PowerPoint and Google Slides presentation skills• ERP & CRM knowledge• Planograms & shelf schematicsShe can be reached here on Linkedin, or at sherry.j.zimmermann@gmail.com.