Experience

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  Hoffmann Group USA

  • Product Management Specialist

    • Nov 2020 - Present

    Drive project-specific and cross functional teams across the organization for specific areas in the go to market, market development and delivery of the services offerings in the market. Perform market analysis to provide input for developing pricing and revenue forecasts, providing information and recommendations to Product Managers and/or directly to clients. Assessing and identifying product opportunities to determine which are worth pursuing. Develop concrete plans to turn ideas and concepts into tangible deliverables and execute on those.

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  Dollar Tree Stores

  • Chesapeake, Virginia, United States

  • Assortment Planner

    • Jun 2019 - Nov 2020
    • Chesapeake, Virginia, United States

    The Assortment Planner partners with the Category Director and Category Merchants to define our product assortment. They will use their keen analytic skills to develop and maintain assortment plans for the Category while investigating top and bottom performing products on a weekly basis and providing recommendations to the Category team. Their expertise, judgment and proficiency in planning is critical to Dollar Tree’s mission and our success as the #1 value retailer.Position Responsibility:Perform analysis of SKU and historical product performance to assist the Category Merchants with the development of the assortment definition and wedgeDevelop item and SKU level plans that project the inventory required to place purchase orders and achieve sales, margin, and turn goalsUse assortment planning software and tools to analyze performance and build plansAlign item plans to category strategies, merchandise plans and open-to-buy, assessing trade-offs from inclusion of new items, providing merchandise financial planning recommendationsAnalyze actual business performance relative to plans and trends, reporting variances to planProvide item level guidance to the Replenishment Analyst and Allocator as well as item level guidance to product development and store clustering, ensuring alignment to assortment goalsPrepare reports required for analysis including recap of seasonal performancePropose action plans to capitalize on opportunities and mitigate risks

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  Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.

  • Newport News, Virginia, United States

  • Shipfitter

    • Sep 2011 - Jun 2019
    • Newport News, Virginia, United States

    Responsible for fabrication, assembling and erection of metal parts in the construction of marine vessels. Shipfitters utilize torches, metric and standard tape measures, hammers, levels, welding equipment, plus other job specific tooling

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  U.S. Coast Guard

  • Portsmouth, Virginia, United States

  • Damage Controlman

    • Jun 2003 - Jun 2017
    • Portsmouth, Virginia, United States

    Damage Control man is an expert on Coast Guard Repair. They use welders, tools, and other devices to repair, replace and even fabricate equipment and material needed to keep Coast Guard Ships, Vessels I top running conditions.