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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, United States

Enable the success of 3P Amazon sellers on the US marketplace whether that be through sales growth, catalog optimization, new product launches, increasing brand recognition, optimizing marketing impact to drive incremental traffic, or keeping listings active and free from enforcement. Successfully onboard brands new to the marketplace, or altogether new private label brands, through cross-functional collaboration, consultation, and guidance on the optimal ways to set up listings and drive product and brand awareness. Strategize the onboarding based on competitor intelligence and market strategy. Focus on enhancing the Amazon seller experience through best in class account management representation.

Developed a new to market supplier within the diesel emissions category, from creating a time-bound plan of action to ensuring those actions are understood and being met via frequent visits to the plant site. Actions broken out by manufacturing, engineering, quality, strategy, and material planning.Ensured upstream supply availability was funneling to the new to market supplier in as optimal a manner as possible, and that all upstream suppliers had lead times, order quantities, and frequencies properly aligned to demand projections at the plant. Negotiated a Direct Supply Agreement with the biggest supplier we have within the diesel emission category.

Columbus, Indiana

Managed a premier on-highway truck OEM generating $11B annually from an emissions product standpoint. Facilitated product changes across the diesel and natural gas segments, driving communication and ensuring understanding of the changes were fully understood by the customer through coordination with customer application engineers. Spearheaded a smooth new product launch through regular meetings with strategy, sourcing, and engineering teams to ensure there were no gaps in planning for product structural changes versus what the current product structure offered.Represented the customer internally in demand control meetings, ensuring market size, market share, and penetration calculations accurately represented the customer's forecast coming from their large fleet orders, plant build schedules and EDI transmissions.

Columbus, Indiana

Represented the parts and service component of all new product launch programs to ensure product introductions kept the serviceability and aftermarket strategy in mind as they rolled out. Worked with field service sales and engineering to identify key replacement components and coordinated service kits with the material planners at each of the 4 global distribution centers.Interfaced with upstream suppliers to ensure we had a direct sourcing line to keep stock replenished at the key distribution centers. Facilitated parts and service availability for all pilot products before components were fully production approved. In charge of keeping all in-stock rates for key serviceable components at 100% across 4 global distribution centers.

Lead the development of an aftermarket product entitlement model that could identify over the life of the product at what ages to expect high value repairs and replacements through careful coordination with customer engineering, product management, and sales. Developed a scorecard for identifying high value components per product model of interest to ensure stocking levels at distribution centers aligned to the replacement rates.

Columbus, Indiana

Columbus, Indiana