Dawn M Barber

Prepare cost analysis using data from multiple systems to establish competitive pricing for new and existing products for 5 U.S. plants and 1 Canadian plant.

Manage over 700 customers pricing, National pricing programs, stock pricelist's. Established procedures ensuring accurate price changes and communication with customers.

Part of team to migrate pricing to a new system meeting or exceeding timing goals.

Responsible for entering pricing into the system and auditing to ensure accuracy. Researching, solving pricing errors resulting in increased order accuracy and reducing credits.

Coordinating with management and other teams to implement pricing strategies.

Provide management and customers with reports of sales activity.

Prepared and analyzed cost models using SQL, CAMM, IQMS with input from Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Production to determine product pricing that met or exceeded Finance goals and was competitive in the industry.

Managed customer pricing, pricing programs and pricing updates improving accuracy and timely communication.

Analyzed data to uncover insights and identify key opportunities to inform strategic decisions.

Prepared and communicated Customer Sales reports.

Managed SQL pricing database including pricing programs, contract compliance, multiple price change types for over 500 customers. Developed a process to implement GPI's increasing flexibility, accuracy and effectiveness.

Using Salesforce, CAMM, SQL, IQMS to develop monthly reporting to analyze and track new business. It provided insights to Sales, Finance on the successes and failures of pricing strategies.

Designed reporting for upper management using pivot tables and formulas to review GPI pricing strategy by product. Became a tool to track the impact of resin price changes over time.

Managed color matches for all US & Canada plants. Developed strong relationships with vendors to create a process that reduced color match lead time form 4-6 weeks to 2 weeks. Reduced number of bottles samples run by production 75%. Developed a database to track projects. Required strong communication skills and coordination with Sales, Customer Service, Quality, Scheduling, Production and Customers.

Developed customer reports with current/prior year comparisons used by Sales, Finance and Customers.

Assisted in part number and material setups.

Coordinated with Customer Service on a project o reduce the amount of pricing errors on order entry. We implemented several strategies and increased accuracy 95%.

Negotiated UPS, FedEx contracts. Successfully switched from UPS to FedEx resulting in 25% savings.

Mentored and trained Customer Service Administrative Assistant managing workload, performance reviews. Supervised Receptionist including initial interview, training and performance reviews.

Worked with suppliers to develop, improve and grow with the company

Assisted in designing and developing performance reporting.

Managed the company's large and growing mold portfolio.

Responsible for large account auditing

Responsible for paying all vendors

Preparing all checks for loan closings

Balancing all bank accounts

Managed filing system, entered data and completed other clerical tasks.

Answered multi-line phone system, routing calls, delivering messages to staff and greeting visitors.

Volunteered to help with special projects of varying degrees of complexity.

Received and sorted incoming mail and packages to record, dispatch, or distribute to correct recipient.

Built and maintained excellent customer relationships through timely response to inquiries and going above and beyond to accommodate unusual requests.

Assisted development and implementation of new administrative procedures.