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ANTHONY DIPIAZZA

Milwaukee,WI

Summary

Skilled Sourcing and Procurement Specialist adept at category ownership, executing cost negotiation, managing supplier acquisitions and relationships and leveraging sales and inventory management data. Disciplined professional with strong communication, organizational, analysis and planning abilities. Offering 5+ years of experience in Business to Business Sales and Marketing and Customer Relations with a focus on the Food and Beverage Industry

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Product Category Manager

Boelter Companies
Waukesha, WI
06.2023 - Current
  • Solely executed a comprehensive product strategy on three high-margin product categories as a company wide initiative through sales data analytics, product trends, and product knowledge. Created complete cost resources for the sales team, presented product trainings, and built customer-facing catalogs for each with the marketing team.
  • Manage and procure relationships with over 150 preferred suppliers daily, executing RFQs and leveraging cost comparisons between suppliers to capitalize upon the triple win principle - the best solution for the Distributor, Supplier, and Customer.
  • Excelling in quarterly cost negotiations with an 85% success rate in cost reductions on single products or full product lines, in tandem with capturing an 80% payment term negotiation success rate, respectively.
  • Create quarterly customer-facing sales flyers
  • Standardize costing grids and evaluate costs for best pricing solution

PRODUCT CATEGORY MANAGEMENT INTERN

Boelter Companies
Pewaukee, WI
10.2022 - 05.2023
  • Assist in the rapid growth of a relatively new Product Category Management Division
  • Utilize software such as SAP, Power BI, and DocuSign in the procurement space
  • Create Requests for Proposal for major spirits and big beverage conglomerates
  • Seek out and evaluate vendors, generate relationships, negotiate prices and complete contracts.
  • Complete quarterly category reviews to analyze data and address potential gaps
  • Work in tandem with sales teams to determine competitive pricing and promotional activities for each product category.

COLLEGE FINANCIAL REPRESENTATIVE

Northwestern Mutual
Milwaukee, WI
05.2019 - 08.2019
  • Participated in one of America’s Top 10 Internship programs
  • Obtained extensive training in Client Resource Management and Financial literacy
  • Completed full Certified Financial Planner Training
  • Became familiar with Northwestern Mutual's personalized planning process to provide financial solutions tailored to each client’s needs over his or her lifetime.
  • Developed an extensive network of over 1000 prospective clients.
  • Built a foundation of knowledge in finance, insurance and sales concepts and standard operating procedures that assisted in my personal ability to provide financial security to clients and self.

Education

B.S - Marketing

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE
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05.2023

Skills

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Cost negotiation and structuring
  • Cross-departmental and internal team building
  • Vendor Relationship Management
  • CRM - Customer Relationship Management
  • SAP - Inventory and Sales Data management
  • Financial and Marketing Data Analytics
  • Microsoft Suite
  • Product Category Expertise and Training
  • Business to Business sales and marketing
  • Contract Negotiation and Procurement

Timeline

Assistant Product Category Manager

Boelter Companies
06.2023 - Current

PRODUCT CATEGORY MANAGEMENT INTERN

Boelter Companies
10.2022 - 05.2023

COLLEGE FINANCIAL REPRESENTATIVE

Northwestern Mutual
05.2019 - 08.2019

B.S - Marketing

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE

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