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PURCHASING PLANNING MANAGER
Professional Summary

Experienced results driven Purchasing/Planning Manager with 5 years in merchandising management functions including but limited to: sales and inventory analytics, price integrity, price optimization, project management ,lean process analysis, contract negotiations, sourcing, and any financial tasks related to monthly close activities speaking to overall business health. I am seeking an opportunity where I can utilize my leadership style coupled with strategic planning and procurement experience to drive effective business strategies and expediency.

Skills
  • Proficient in analytical , complex qualitative ,and other deliberate planning techniques for developing program growth
  • Market research and strategic campaign planning expertise
  • Financial acumen of business strategies targeting growth and agility
  • Kaizen Event facilitation
  • Excel,SAP, ACL, APT,SQL, Revionics, MIS, Retek, Google suite,Sharepoint, Tableau,Salesforce
  • Tactical sourcing /relationship building through procurement expertise
  • Purchasing planning and strategic implementation
  • Project Management expertise leading with strong data and trend root cause analysis.
  • Conflict resolution and Win Win approach to contract negotiations
Work History
Purchasing Planning Manager, 05/2019 to Current
Lidl US – Arlington, VA
  • Business expert relating all planning and implementation of Fresh Meat, Fresh Fish, Wine, Ham Turkey lines of business driving over 450k in weekly promotional turnover.
  • Lead all planning, pricing, allocation, item/supplier acquisition, and many other business alignment strategies driving complex initiatives to deliver profitable outcomes
  • Define and preset all promotional demand to various cross functional teams to ensure assortment is properly aligned including but not limited to: buying, supply chain, masterdata, contracts, sales, controlling
  • Develop and maintain all critical SAP Master data during planning process
  • Develop the vision behind all change management communications through multiple seasonal projects explaining business assumptions behind plans and methods to quantify projects.
  • Create seasonal plans through financial modeling and analyzing historical data of current trends while identifying risks and opportunities. Reconcile plans from a top down and bottom up perspective
  • Accountable for over 300 Suppliers and their individual project schedule deliverables commitment to the business while minimizing risk and maintaining all contractual obligations
  • Lead collaborative negotiation win win strategies for contract negotiations analyzing and evaluating bids
  • Provided kaizen event evaluation and assessments for senior leadership alignment
  • Task order management leading team of 4 analysts while maintaining collaborative environment driving aligned business strategies
  • Validate accuracy of all Marketing customer-facing advertising materials and in-store signage
  • Perform rigorous market analysis ensuring all managed categories speak to competitive market trends, buying patterns, and customer reactions.
  • Forecast sales, margin and inventory turn by week, at brand level and communicate business performance during weekly sales meetings.
  • Lead all active RDC support to include, but not be limited to: forecasting split validation to support effective inventory allocation, supply chain collaboration regarding tactical execution of production plan, and facilitation of root cause mis-shipments.
  • Facilitate resolution of complex quality issues including customer complaints and vendor issues
  • Prioritized key stakeholders alignments on projects year over year to ensure all inclusive department contributions are aligned
Strategic Price Optimization Project Manager, 03/2018 to 05/2019
Family Dollar – Matthews, NC
  • Manage day-to-day pricing activities for 33 categories for both pre-season planning and in-season execution. Including but not limited to: generating and presenting financial reports, market trend analysis, facilitate kaizen events, project management methodologies and presenting key follow up findings to assigned Merchandising teams based on project full scope.
  • Provide fact-based guidance to merchant team in selecting pricing strategies/rules that result in increased sales, profit, and/or market share. Manage rules and strategies (by category/by zone) within price optimization system
  • Determine and quantify primary business opportunities and key drivers pertaining to shelving and overall planogram analysis
  • Manage large ad hoc complex projects over 11 project staff and a $2 million or more project budget
  • Provide guidance and expertise on store/SKU elasticity as it relates to future price changes
  • Review system-generated pricing recommendations (base price) for accuracy and alignment to category strategy—review results with buyer and collaborate on final prices
  • Execute “what if” scenarios before finalizing cost volume leads on competitive and high dollar change proposals
  • Provide market and industry insights to competitive basket analysis, item indexing, and common trends for assigned categories
  • Present pricing cost narrative, price strategy, risk assessment, business case analysis preparation/presentation for SVP, EVP, and other management briefings
  • Research and resolve pricing issues as reported by stores and/or system-generated reports
  • Manage pricing deliverables that support 4P principles to balance workload in stores, improve price execution, and monitor price zone designated under KVI KPI's.
  • Support development and implementation of price tests to validate category strategies
  • Lead special projects, ad hoc analysis, and strategic planning initiatives related to pricing strategies through full project cycle
AP Financial Project Manager, 08/2015 to 03/2018
Walmart – Charlotte, NC
  • Define financial components of IRR (Inventory Recap Report analysis) while identifying exceptions compared to Sales class using 5 step method
  • Prepare, manage and completes action plans for all financial tasks related to store health
  • Deep dive analysis involving Shrink/Inventory utilizing PURCAP supporting Implementing financial decisions
  • Maintain monthly and quarterly financial reporting indicating overall store health meeting at least 99.9 % in SLA. Tableau, Excel, and SharePoint mastered
  • Inventory analytic reporting and SKU forecasting of all on hand merchandise analyzing large data sets of 8 Canadian stores, at least 36 vendors, and support millions in annual sales
  • Supplier EDI compliance resolution drawing reasonable conclusions, and formulate next steps per contractual guidelines
  • Coordinated and lead small team of 2-4 associates utilizing project management methodologies. Provide support to key stakeholders through technical expertise, data analytics, inventory analytics, driving year over year process improvements. Weekly presentations given
  • Researched any lead initiatives for model changes, upgrades and validation including data and reporting adjustment/enhancements
Education
MBA: Business Management, 06/2018
Jack Welch Management Inst- Strayer University - Herndon, VA
Bachelor of Arts: Political Science, 05/2014
University of South Carolina - Columbia - Columbia, SC
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Lidl US
  • Family Dollar
  • Walmart

School Attended

  • Jack Welch Management Inst- Strayer University
  • University of South Carolina - Columbia

Job Titles Held:

  • Purchasing Planning Manager
  • Strategic Price Optimization Project Manager
  • AP Financial Project Manager

Degrees

  • MBA : Business Management , 06/2018
    Bachelor of Arts : Political Science , 05/2014

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