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Durant, Oklahoma, United States

Durant, Oklahoma

Audit inventory and update systems with corrected information, perform internal transfers, ensure customer shipping information is accurate

Durant, Oklahoma

Support the needs of national and regional retailers by providing merchandising support services. Coverage area represents 13 counties in OK and AR supporting 30+ stores. Providing support services including inventory, planogram resets, new item cut ins, deleted item clean up, new store set up, fixture installation, display creation and maintenance as well as audits.

Montvale, Nj

Support Category Manager for Frozen Meat & Processed Meat categories. Direct responsibility for the Heat & Eat, Processed Meat & Smoked Sausage category for the company's 6 banners encompassing a store base of approximately 300 stores. Draw and update all planograms based on store clusters, demographics, and individual store sales to ensure maximum sales opportunities are capitalized and all financial metrics are met. Improve profit by lowering costs through negotiation and/or opportunity buying and reducing shrink / throwaways. Review and select the appropriate assortment by store ensuring the category remains on trend by identifying areas of opportunity for growth and minimizing any potential liabilities by eliminating non performing sub categories and/or items. Determine and implement category strategies by partnering with key supplier partners to identify market and category trends. Ensure the company remains the market leader by supplying customers with the proper assortment of meal solutions.

Montvale, Nj

Support Category Managers for Frozen Meat & Processed Meat categories. Direct responsibility for the Heat & Eat category for the company's 6 banners encompassing a store base of approximately 300 stores. Draw and update all planograms based on store clusters, demographics, and individual store sales to ensure maximum sales opportunities are capitalized on and all financial metrics are met. Improve profit by lowering costs and reducing shrink / throwaways. Review and select the appropriate assortment by store ensuring the category remains on trend by identifying areas of opportunity for growth and minimizing any potential liabilities by eliminating non performing sub categories and/or items.

Montvale, Nj

Collect, analyze, manipulate and format cost, price, margin and other related product item data for the Category Manager. Review and analyze information such as item movement, SKU assortment, sell-through, etc. Report assessment of data and trends to Category Manager. Review service level and inventory turns. Update all POG’s with new items, discontinued items, resets, etc. Ensure data integrity for all POG’s within the category. Compare trends within the category to the category’s defined plan and goals. Work with vendors to obtain specific movement and product information regarding product distributed by the vendor. Work in developing and analyzing reports from the data warehouse and Nielsen at the category manager’s direction. Communicate to Team on a daily basis regarding OOS and potential issues. Compare various types of data in order to make educated decisions about products, pricing, plan-o-grams and placement. Develop category plans using templates provided by senior management. Set up new vendors working with CDM to insure accuracy. Reconcile period end including funding for performance events. Develop pricing strategies for categories and retail prices for individual items. Ensure compliance with overall pricing policy as it relates to gross profit and competitiveness. Advocate for systemic or workflow process improvements. Manage all lines of the P&L as they relate to the profitability of the categories assigned including: sales gross margin net margin special reductions shrink vendor funding rates all types of allowances

Negotiated costs; leveraged purchasing power for lowest everyday cost and promotional costs; analyzed shipping location and transit times to reduce lead time, transit time and food miles to ensure the freshest product to the customer. Responsible for sales, markdowns, inventory, profit and product turns to achieve goals up to $700mm category. Assortment planning, promotional plans, modulars. Worked with operations and marketing to ensure seasonal plans were communicated to be properly executed.Transitioned category to global food supply ensuring best possible costs across multiple retail platforms for company. Worked with planners to ensure data was accurate. Projected inventory, demand and distribution needs for 52 week buy.

Responsible for sales, markdowns, inventory, profit and product turns to achieve goals up to $350mm category. Assortment planning, promotional plans, modulars. Worked with operations and marketing to ensure seasonal plans were communicated to be properly executed. Responsible for roses, vases and arrangements for everyday needs and key holiday and seasonal events including Valentine's Day and Mother's Day as well as minor holidays for key demographic groups. Worked with key support departments including transportation and logistics to ensure imported category transportation needs were met at the lowest possible cost. Analyzed key distribution points from multiple suppliers to reduce transit time and increase shelf life of perishable products to the customer. Strategically based assortment and allocation needs on demographics and sales trends. Analyzed all sales to determine future allocations and business needs. Leveraged purchasing power for lowest everyday cost and promotional costs; performed multiple supplier alignments to reduce lead time, transit time and food miles to ensure the freshest product to the customer.

Responsible for sales, markdowns, inventory, profit and product turns to achieve goals up to $800mm category. Assortment planning, promotional plans, modulars were key initiatives to achieve the financial metrics of the category. Major milestone was to convert the fresh chicken category to a net weight program. Negotiated specifications and business needs of a new program with major supplier partners such as Tyson, Pilgrim's Pride, Perdue and Foster Farms.

Analyze sales for the meat division comprising sales of over $6 billion. Retrieve data and track performance against set budgetary goals and recommend steps for improvement.

Assist the buyer in all aspects of the job including budgeting, modular processes, item movement and sales analysis. Support stores as well as providing work direction for new assistants.

Process employee expense reports including expense auditing and verification. Perform random audits of employee files to ensure adherence to corporate policies.

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