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Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Establish strong and long lasting professional relationships with key personnel in assigned strategic accounts.Provide proactive and responsive day to day support to accounts.Assist in developing and executing strategies to maximize sales and improve the overall customer experience.Generate and Analyze business reports.Appropriately coordinate company resources to ensure account performance objectives are met with the highest level of customer satisfaction.

Key point of contact for Walmart and Sam's Club for all store and DC replenishment issues, strategies and initiatives.OTIF reports and resolutions.Evaluate, analyze and report sales patterns on weekly basis.Led execution with internal Walmart and Sam's Club team.Prepared and conduct business reviews.

Bentonville, Arkansas

Led a team of six planners budgeting and executing multibillion-dollar portfolio. Achieved sales and profit financial plans averaging more than 3% sales growth over last three years. Set budgets in monthly planning system by fiscal year on key metrics, including sales, markdowns, margins, store receipts, profits, and store and warehouse inventory. Allocated overall portfolio sales and profit budgets to five individual category teams within department.• Collaborated with divisional replenishment manager weekly to track imported and domestic inbound warehouse and store inventory, taking actions in order to hit monthly budgets.• Projected daily sales each month and compared figures to actual and budgeted numbers.

Bentonville, Arkansas

Collaborated with senior director and replenishment manager to meet financial metrics for everyday project team. Located qualified candidates for and trained/developed team of three planners. Allocated overall portfolio sales and profit budgets in P4P system to three individual category teams for sales, markdown, margin, store receipts, profit, and store and warehouse inventory. • Coordinated and managed execution for all features in outdoor living portfolio.• Successfully completed the FY14 budget for everyday projects team.

Bentonville, Arkansas

Worked directly with four home SBU planning directors on hotspot feature planning and performance tracking for leadership. Led and trained team of four planners for home strategy team. Handled all ad hoc reporting, TAB performance reporting, and key seasonal events. • Implemented new key seasonal event planning process for home division.• Met customer needs by developing annual space allocation plan across home departments.

Bentonville, Arkansas

Collaborated with and influenced others to improve category performance and maximize sales and profits. Developed and implemented category clustering strategies meeting team financial goals. Drove execution of both Apple and Pear business plans.• Developed ethnic root destination for customers based on sales analysis.• Established eight new Apple clusters for fall modular relay.

Bentonville, Arkansas

Developed and executed strategies to meet financial goals while promoting and supporting company policies. Established and maintained supplier relationships to support development and manage new and existing product lines. Coordinated the execution and maintenance of category inventory plans.• Implemented new specifications on all floral items.• Established new sell-by date guidelines to ensure product freshness.

Bentonville, Arkansas

▪ Maintained a 99% store in-stock with DC service level of 97% for multiple categories by utilizing various information systems.-Projected daily sales for two departments.

Bentonville, Arkansas

▪ Developed and executed strategies to meet financial goals while promoting and supporting company policies.▪ Established and Maintained supplier relationships to support development and manage new and existing product lines.▪ Coordinated the execution and maintenance of category inventory plans.

Bentonville, Arkansas

▪ Developed and executed strategies to meet financial goals while promoting and supporting company policies.▪ Established and Maintained supplier relationships to support development and manage new and existing product lines.▪ Coordinated the execution and maintenance of category inventory plans.

London, Kentucky

Positions included the following:▪ Northeast Territory Team Leader Assistant, Supercenter Produce and Floral Division▪ Regional Replenishment Analyst, Supercenter Produce and Floral Division▪ Regional Buyer Assistant, Supercenter Produce and Floral Division▪ Personnel Hiring Clerk, Logistics DC# 6097▪ Central Receiving Clerk, Logistics DC# 6097

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