Associate Buyer

• Jan 2023 - Present

• Analyze/place purchase orders with vendors via current established practices and expedite purchase orders to ensure timely delivery • Maintain organized records of open purchase orders with accurate ship and delivery dates and costs in QuickBooks and SharePoint systems. Resolve issues with vendor invoices, freight costs, etc. • Responsible for suppliers’ quotations and negotiate pricing and NET terms. Provide timely and accurate information to internal customers and outside vendor requests • Keep up to date records on all assigned projects, issues and inventory status • Assist in sourcing identified shortages from internal customers as well as production teams. Develop strong relationships with suppliers Show less

Category Analyst

• Jul 2022 - Dec 2022

• Responsible for Outdoor product portfolio management and segmentation, and initiate weekly, monthly, quarterly sales report • Drive outdoor category business by assisting product development buying team and coming up with new product recommendations • Conduct ad-hoc inventory analysis on weekly basis to push the aged/slow items to sell through within a period of time • Evaluate and do variance analysis on key performance metrics such as product-related cost, revenues, and margins to support decision-making of planning, inventory and category divisions • Maximize the margins and the net profit for assigned products through multiple strategies including online promotion events, content marketing, sales forecasting and market analysis • Communicate and collaborate with the marketing and e-commerce team on all product launch events, item specifications, and continued follow-up • Structure inbound/outbound freight and pricing analysis to rebuild price components incorporating current market situation and customer Perceived Value Retail, contribute pricing suggestions for different products • Maintain e-commerce performance and build incremental sales by tracking SKU productivity and traffic data for different channels Show less

Business Analyst

• Jul 2021 - Oct 2021

• Contribute to PNC and BBVA bank data migration project by creating and updating datasets to be used by Treasury Management Client Implementation team • Collect, verify, interpret, and gap analyze the data received from internal and external sources to maintain and regulate testing and production environment for PNC bank’s IBM Mainframe system • Responsible for data profiling such as creating data dictionary and associated metadata documents to assure the quality of data input by the team • Document Mainframe procedures in SharePoint for the team to correctly load generations of inbound and outbound data • Assist with client setups such as EDI, ISO, NACHA and wire formats and work with team to create daily reports for executive team • Cooperate with merging clients and IT to ensure proper format of testing files to be applied and run smoothly through the conversion Show less

SI leader

• Aug 2020 - Jul 2021

Assistant Account Manager

• Oct 2018 - May 2019

• Walk clients through personal loan evaluation process • Initiate marketing campaign for brand POS machine • Provide financial planning services by recommending investment products for high-end clients • Execute batch online banking account setup for corporate clients • Walk clients through personal loan evaluation process • Initiate marketing campaign for brand POS machine • Provide financial planning services by recommending investment products for high-end clients • Execute batch online banking account setup for corporate clients