About
Over ten years’ experience working on Walmart Team accounts in various roles including category advisor, business analyst, and co-manage analyst. Excellent organizational, analytical and problem solving skills. Success in managing back-to-school by coordinating Walmart’s Year Beginning Meeting, drawing modulars, determining cutdowns, and communicating weekly sales & sell thru analysis reports. Intimate working knowledge of IRI syndicated data and familiarity with NPD. Highly developed interpersonal skills; discreet in dealing with internal and external contacts; productive team member accustomed to working independently and under pressure.
Experience
Category Advisor, Consumer Business Group, Key Accounts
Walmart Team Category Advisor
Responsible for managing category analysis for two of Walmart’s highly seasonal categories. -Notebooks and folders. -Planners, organizers, and journals. Collaborate with buyer on strategy for modular relays. -Strategy presentation includes 5 year sales history, market overview, price ladders and SWOT analysis. -Strategy analysis includes localization, retail audits, and sales performance by modular. Provide weekly category sales performance for buyer and financial planner. -Sales comparison for last week, year-to-date, modular-to-date breakdown by top selling finelines, store traits and modular size. -Deep-dive analysis from questions arising from weekly sales report. Design and implement modulars in collaboration with the buyer and financial planner for spring, back-to-school and fall relays. -Arrange all SKUs for future modulars at Walmart Layout Center. -Draw modulars based on layout using JDA ProSpace. -Use sales history, placement and number of facings from most recent modular to…
Walmart Team Business Analyst
Provided and interpreted sales and category analysis for fresh case ready product lines to support the achievement of sales, distribution shelving and pricing objectives from Walmart’s Retail Link system. 60+ whole muscle beef products 30+ beef grind products 12+ beef variety meat products 40+ pork products Assisted sales team in preparing PowerPoint slides and presenting information to Walmart buyers, business development teams and/or replenishment managers. Extensive knowledge of Walmart’s Retail Link Decision Support System building ad hoc queries, scheduled reports and preset reports. Close working relationship with demand & supply chain teams, production, field support and logistics across multiple business units. Earned Walmart buyer & replenishment trust through good, solid data analysis and presentation. Worked closely with Cargill’s internal Category Management team to create presentations for buyers using syndicated data.
Walmart Team Co-Manage Analyst
Learned all job responsibilities for co-manage analyst team to assist with vacations for both Walmart and Sam’s product lines including frozen patties, fresh and frozen bacon, deli meat, salad dressings & oils, and fresh & frozen turkey. Mastered Walmart & Sam’s order management systems, DDIR and Inforem. Forecasted product lines for internal team. Communicated with replenishment managers and provided replenishment reports. Improved order management system by creating automated templates.
Production Scheduling Manager
Scheduled fresh and frozen case ready further processed turkey for Cargill’s retail business in the mid-west and western United States. 75+ fresh retail products 20+ frozen retail products Created Excel spreadsheet to schedule the raw processing of whole birds coming into the plant from three different locations. Worked extremely close with production, sales and shipping to attain 100% fill rate for all customers. Supervision of one employee.
Inside Sales Representative
Order management and maintenance of a 50+ customer base in deli retail, foodservice and national accounts. Daily communication with buyers and brokers regarding order management activities. Worked closely with logistics, production and sales to deliver customer orders and had firm understanding of their relationships to role. Standardized customer order forms using Excel spreadsheets by linking data as to minimize updating of order forms. Handpicked to work on special projects. Team leader developing a training manual for order entry system. Assisted Information Technology department in a gap analysis with a newly acquired company to determine integration of order entry systems.
Food Scientist
Developed new whole muscle and formed chicken products being sold as foodservice items and to national chain restaurants. Improved current products and processes by evaluating production efficiencies and/or using less cost ingredients or materials. Worked with customers developing new products. Supervision of one employee.
Education
University of Arkansas
B.S, Food Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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