Travis Baker Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, MN, US

St Paul, US

St Paul, MN, US

St Paul, MN, US

St Paul, MN, US

Richfield, Minnesota, US

• Created clearance plans using a third party pricing tool and managed clearance markdowns at all Best Buy Stores across the nation and on Bestbuy.com
• Provided pricing analytics with a focus on competitive pricing and clearance price management to senior leadership for musical instruments and mobile car electronics business categories
• Pricing team accomplishments included 89% year over year growth in clearance units sold and clearance revenue increase of 23% across all categories for 2013-2014
• Daily objectives included communicating with business partners, developing plans for new clearance products, updating prices on existing clearance products as well as providing and executing daily price changes based.
• Created an excel template for pricing team designed to provide a weekly recap of key clearance metrics including revenue, gross margin dollars, weeks of supply, and units sold
• Leadership role in launching competitive pricing tool; including testing, validation, recommendations, and training the pricing team

Richfield, Minnesota, US

• Member of the major appliances business team working specifically in the cooking category.
• Purchased new product and maintained store and warehouse inventory levels to meet customer demands and reduce costs
• Managed new and old product transitions, total space transformations, and back stock allocations to support stores with higher “take with” sales rates
• Worked with vendors to understand the supply chain and product lead times to avoid out of stocks and achieve desired inventory levels
• Proficient in Retek, Matrix, AIP, IP systems, and Excel for analysis
• Addressed open purchase order issues with vendors and help them action on these issues

Richfield, Minnesota, US

• Trained in all aspects of Best Buy’s supply chain and inventory allocation strategies and systems
• Worked with a team of eight interns to analyze Best Buy’s Dotcom (Internet) supply chain
• Analyzed millions of data lines to identify problems and create solutions to minimize inefficiencies across the Dotcom (internet) supply chain
• Created an inventory allocation strategy using attribute mapping to reduce costs and unnecessary shipments of products across the supply chain
• Presented findings to an auditorium of business team leaders and executives

Saint Paul, Minnesota, US

• Responsible for receiving, shipping, and re-stocking of Minnesota Wild merchandise inside the Xcel Energy Center, online and through satellite stores.
• Tracked sales of products and allocated inventory to stores based on previous sales.
• Organized and counted inventory to make sure space was being optimized in the warehouse.
• Clearance priced inventory in order to move through old merchandise and make space for new merchandise.

Chicago, IL, US

• Operated health supplement retail store and juice bar.
• Managed multiple priorities such as inventories, customer service, and sales.
• Responsible for verifying member’s accounts and taking membership payments.
• Developed expertise in retail products to provide excellent customer service and to meet retail sales goals

Shoreview, MN, US

• Promoted to grounds crew team leader.
• Assigned task priorities and schedule for each day based on my judgment.
• Trained new employees.
• Responsible for maintaining the grounds at each school within the district.
• Task include lawn mowing, digging for irrigation, picking up trash, fixing playground equipment, laying sod, etc.

Maple Grove, MN, US

• Responsible for verifying and coding online surveys.
• Certified data from surveys to corporate.
• Trained new employees

Operations Management

High School Diploma