
Personal Profile Motivated, driven, analytical category business manager/buyer/account manager. Advanced experience in product selection, SKU rationalization, margin maximizing, and sales increases. Over 7 years of experience and success in managing $35mm in retail sales. Efficiently develops plans for profitable selling strategies.
• Maintain merchandise stock for a world-wide production company: Ensure that product needs are supplied for each distributor, according to their required quantity and specified packaging.
• Oversee production of stock and specialty products: Ordering of components, production, ensuring quality standards and specifications are met, assembled, and packaged through receiving shipments in the company warehouse.
• Continually running reports to prepare for production, keeping ahead of customers’ needs.
Pricing structures
Relational skills
Excellent negotiation skills
Eye for detail
Procurement
Budgeting
Contract Negotiation
Trend assessment
Competitor analysis
Vendor negotiation
Goods procurement
Retail management