Wyn Knittel Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Brooklyn Park, MN

Category Manager for a rotating slate of categories, including shopping bags, office supplies, kraft tissue, retail ticketing/marking supplies among others. Support Sourcing Director in large category RFPs, and manage the implementation of RFP awards.

Leverage excellent relationship building, communication, and problem solving skills to deliver world-class service and support to major accounts. Consistently exceed project and account goals by utilizing in-depth knowledge of supply distribution and logistics, inventory planning and forecasting, implementation of new accounts, and customer service.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Independent Sales Representative for Mixx Marketing, a manufacturer's rep group based at the Minneapolis Merchandise Mart. Responsible for northern Minnesota and the eastern Twin Cities area.

Minneapolis

- Event set-up and tear down for premier floral design studio. - Office coverage including Quick Books entry. - Preparation of event proposal packages.

- Surpassed inventory turn targets for 2007 through strategic inventory management and product selection - Created strategy for introduction of new product categories for Fall 2008, including shoes, shapewear, loungewear and cold weather accessories. Supervised product selection by new Accessories Buyer.

- Created and managed assortments for Radio Road, a contemporary women’s boutique, including all apparel, accessories and handbags. - Built and managed apparel, handbag and belt assortments for Spirit of the Red Horse, a Native American/Western gift and apparel concept. - Created initial assortment for new store-within-store concept for infants called.

- Hired in January 2003 as assistant Buyer, responsible for buying Jewelry and supporting the Ready-to-Wear buyer, assigned full buying responsibility for all Accessories categories in March 2003. - Increased Accessories categories from 7% to 15% of sales, also increasing initial margin from 64% to over 70% by improving sourcing, utilizing private label.

- Responsible for day-to-day coordination of supply management programs for accounts totaling $22 million in 2001, serving as point of contact for both external and internal resources. - Essential functions include team leadership, customer service, inventory management, program expansion, report design, purchasing coordination, contract administration and.

- Achieved first $1 million sales year for Mall of America location- Hired, trained and managed sales staff of 6 – 10 people

Master Of Science - Ms, Business Analytics

Coursework in Analytics, Data Visualization, and Project Management

Ba, Economics And German