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Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Established and executed import demand, supply chain, warehousing strategy supporting major retailers including Walmart, Amazon, and Lowes.Created engaging reporting and analytics with big data from Walmart Luminate and Amazon Supplier Central. Developed in house tool suite to improve forecast accuracy and inventory accountability.

United States

Luminate Reporting and Analysis Built weekly reporting and multiple customer insights through Luminate Shopper Behavior and Channel Performance modulesCustomer Decision Trees Utilized Luminate Assortment Deep Dive, Switching, Source of Value, and Trial and Repeat reports for merchant teamsCategory Localization Constructed clustering groups for products with store and region-specific assortments using historical shopping behavior, assortment gap completion logic, and customer decision analysis.Optimized modular design and enabled store specific assortment for multiple modular categories.

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Dry Grocery, Baking Commodity - Baking Mixes· Managed forecast and replenishment settings for $3.5B in sales and 3,000 different items in 4,000 locations while creating visibility to relevant data informing leadership of flow and on hand planning.· Coordinated seasonal plans with multiple teams ensuring product deliver at the right time to the right locations.· Led omni-channel channel integration plans for supply chain organization with signficant work in online availability· Produced meaningful insights from corporate big data with over 500 million store item combinations each day - discerning and demonstrating store item specific actions and strategies.

Fayetteville, Arkansas Area

Sports and Outdoors: Team Sports, Local Sports, Hunting· $1.3B P&L – three merchant teams - 3-year CAGR of 11.9%· Manager for two interns and one direct report· Oversaw complete profit and loss statement with considerations for top line, bottom line, inventory efficiency and meeting annual target metrics.· Continuously updated senior leadership of year to date performance and gave guidance for short and long range planning.· Coordinated efforts of vendor manager, supply chain, and additional cross-functional support teams to grow and develop new categories, expanded existing product assortment and retain existing customers.Sports and Outdoors: Camping· $2.0B P&L – two merchant teams - 3-year CAGR of 6.5%· Manager for one direct report· Sports and Outdoors Department Strategy Established with the New Vice President Department strategy and implementation of store/category clustering. Executed or coordinated all analytical efforts. Ensured multi-team implementation. Managed two associates.· Short seasonal buy recommendations to complete assortment with considerations for sales and margin performance, market insights, customer and trend insights, competitive behavior, and supply chain efficiency.· Oversaw complete lifecycle of fad product from $0 sales to $130M a year to $45M a year.· Category Localization Constructed clustering groups for multiple categories with store and region-specific assortments using historical shopping behavior, assortment gap completion logic, and customer decision analysis.

Fayetteville, Arkansas Area

Outdoor Living: Lawn and Garden Pest and Fertilizers· $2.2B P&L – one merchant team - CAGR of 5.9%· Managing sales, profit, markdowns, inventory, and turns for highly seasonal categories with goals of zero inventory on exit.· Managed feature plans for whole of Hardlines division coordinating event strategies and promotional plans.Home Management: Vacuums, Floor Care, Refrigeration· $1.2B P&L – one merchant team - 3-year CAGR of 3.1%· Grew Walmart Floorcare business base $1B mark with strong entry level price point management and broad assortment

Bentonville, Arkansas

IT Program Management Office· Project management of IT technology solutions, process mapping and support, reporting, and technology tools development.· Trained 100+ project managers in PMBOK principles of cost, scope and schedule· Facilitated $2.5 billion budgeting process by establishing and creating reporting, training, and guidance for 250 associates across division.

Bentonville, Arkansas

Category Management - Home Division· Build Modular Planograms for multiple categories localizing assortment to customers and use cases.· Corrected two categories from negative sales to positive with assortment localization, remerchandising, and correct brand positioning.

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi (TBP), ASME

Mba, Product Development

Activities and Societies: Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO), Ballroom Dance

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Ballroom Dance, Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society), Folk Dance, International Folk Dance Club