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Grant Harland

Oklahoma City,OK

Summary

Gritty, self-starting leader with experience across business development, category management, product development, merchandising, global sourcing, project management, technology, and data analysis. Adept at evaluating trends, problem solving, and leading new initiatives. Easily excited by opportunities for personal connection and to bring joy to others, both customers and co-workers.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Sourcing Manager

Starbucks
09.2023 - Current
  • Sourcing lead for North America core merchandise across all company-owned and licensed stores.
  • Vendor enablement, including running vendor review and collaboration meetings with key suppliers to enable innovation, measure performance, and continuous improvement.
  • Strategic projects including RFx, channel development, cost savings and avoidance pipeline development, and country of origin diversification.
  • Led large special projects including with broad crossfunctional engagement including brand collaborations and sustainability projects like Red Cup Day, Green Apron Partner Cup, and Personal Cup.
  • Monitor market conditions, production costs, labor rates, and all factors affecting the cost of goods through should-cost and does-cost modeling.
  • Vendor risk and resiliency evaluation.
  • Supplier relationship management with key global supply partners.

Principal Consultant

Envista
06.2022 - 09.2023
  • Led large retailer clients in their pursuit to transform their business by problem-solving, utilizing process design, and systems selection to solve problems and operate more efficiently and profitably.
  • Led current state assessment and future state direction setting, including workshops, documenting process flows and process development, gap analysis and remediation across product development, planning and sourcing teams.
  • Led the development and management of RFI/RFP for selection projects across software solutions, including Merchandise Financial Planning, Demand Planning, Assortment Planning, Allocation & Replenishment, EDI, and Point-of-Sale.
  • Provided clients with a vendor landscape for each solution, scorecards, and initial insight into vendor shortlists, scripts, and scoring models to evaluate vendor demonstrations, required integrations and customizations, migration roadmaps, and costing evaluations, including TCO and projected time to value.

Retail Analyst

Windstream Enterprise
03.2020 - 06.2022
  • Act as the voice of the retailer internally by providing regular analysis to product, marketing, sales and leadership to position our solutions for the future of retail.
  • Conduct webinars, industry issue workshops, primary research, white papers and be the organizations thought leader in the retail vertical.
  • Managed relationships with strategic organizations (i.e., NRF, Gartner, Industry Dive)
  • Launched a program to support Group Purchasing Agreements for retail & restaurant franchise organizations.

Senior Consultant

Windstream Enterprise
07.2018 - 03.2020
  • Led retail technology consulting projects for consulting business of Windstream, Boston Retail Partners (BRP) including across retail strategy and technology.
  • Project lead for strategy and implementation projects with a billion dollar organization's retail division, and several mid-size specialty retail & restaurant clients.
  • Managed implementation & deployment of point-of-sale & inventory management solutions using an agile framework.
  • Led change management initiatives with clients across assortment planning, sourcing strategy and merchandise catalog standardization.
  • Led discussions in re-organizing project resources and completing project remotely during COVID19 pandemic.

Sr. Category Manager - Private Label

Beckham Enterprises
02.2016 - 07.2018
  • Managed all stages of private label market research, product development and sourcing for an Amazon seller (Subsidiary of Beckham Enterprises known as Deal Nova) projected north of $100 million in sales per year in 2018.
  • Identified 200+ successful new product niches using in depth market analysis.
  • Creating new brands and researching trademark availability.
  • Locating factories globally & domestically using import research & networking.
  • Managed product development for 100+ new products launched on Amazon doing an estimated $40 million in sales per year.
  • Sourcing bedding, cookware, kitchen appliances, sporting goods, cell phone accessories, electronics, pet products, beauty, supplements & more.
  • Analyzing product performance, quality control & problem solving for issues related to manufacturing or packaging.
  • Negotiating costs, streamlining packaging dimensions and accurately estimating ship costs to maximize margin.
  • Working as liaison between design team & manufacturers, assigning design work and providing product details.
  • Keyword & content analysis.

Category Manager - Multiple Categories

Beckham Enterprises
12.2011 - 02.2016
  • Managed multiple categories including Home & Garden, Sports & Outdoors and more across multiple businesses including QuiBids.com, Shoppie.com and Tumbledeal.com
  • Supported a team of 4 buyers and assistant category managers in their growth as merchants.
  • Created new relationships and onboarded new drop-ship and bulk-buy vendors to facilitate a constant flow of new merchandise to support events and deals.
  • Launched over 50,000 new products.
  • Attended Trade Shows including, Housewares Trade Show, PGA Show, annually, built and managed a pipeline of meetings for myself & our team. Developed relationships creating direct access to brands including Blendtec, Circulon, Farberware, Rachel Ray, and Ninja/Shark appliances, KitchenAid, All-Clad Cuisinart, iRobot, Cobra/Puma, Callaway, Corkcicle & more.
  • Planned assortment for 15-20 events per week of custom curated assortments including both seasonal & deal focused assortments.
  • Negotiated daily with new vendor base on costs and inventory for limited time event costing, approval to break MAP and for access to new product assortment.
  • Acquired MDF/Co-op funds for email blasts and social campaigns.

Assistant Category Manager - Consumer Electronics

Beckham Enterprises
08.2010 - 12.2011
  • Negotiated cost on spot buys for key product lines for consumer electronics category on QuiBids.com
  • Daily inventory management.
  • Attended the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Aided in conversations to open protected brands like Klipsch, Harman Kardon, Garmin and more.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Communication

The University of Oklahoma
2011

Skills

  • Category management
  • Market analysis
  • Cost reduction strategies
  • Supplier relationship management
  • Contracting
  • Country of Origin Diversification
  • Supplier selection
  • Project Management
  • RFx
  • Systems selection
  • Adept at using Salesforce, Jira, Tableau, MS 365, Oracle systems, and Amazon Seller Central, Circana, IRI, Ariba, Aravo and more

References

Available upon request. 

Timeline

Sourcing Manager

Starbucks
09.2023 - Current

Principal Consultant

Envista
06.2022 - 09.2023

Retail Analyst

Windstream Enterprise
03.2020 - 06.2022

Senior Consultant

Windstream Enterprise
07.2018 - 03.2020

Sr. Category Manager - Private Label

Beckham Enterprises
02.2016 - 07.2018

Category Manager - Multiple Categories

Beckham Enterprises
12.2011 - 02.2016

Assistant Category Manager - Consumer Electronics

Beckham Enterprises
08.2010 - 12.2011

Bachelor of Science - Communication

The University of Oklahoma

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