Analytical Skills

Special Projects

  • Profitable SKUs
    • Analyzed sales history to determine what was our most profitable SKUs in a specific line of product. Looked at pricing, GP, and capacity to determine what items should use a price increase and what should be cut.
      Presented to Sales and Upper Management
  • Product Line Trend
    • Looked at one of our product lines over three year time period to determine how we are doing. This includes drill-down analysis on which customers and SKUs are the most problems, identifying areas to prove, and putting together action plans to assist in recovering lost business

Return on Investments

  • Demo Return on Investment
    Checking product sold during a demo to understand if the demo paid back financially or not
  • Promotion Return on Investment
    How did the retail promotion do? Was the lift sufficient enough for the discount?
  • New Distribution Return on Investment
    Looking at new distribution, ads, slotting, free fill to determine when the payback is based off estimated sales

Pricing

  • Promotion Pricing
    • Including responsible for creating yearly promotion calendars for retail and natural food stores, and new business
    • Enter promotion pricing to accounting
    • Providing pricing to Sales
  • New Product Pricing
    • Using cost and shelf price to determine pricing for new business (retailers, distributors, and/or items)
    • Essential part of creating pricing for 3 major projects
  • Price Increases

Product Promotion

  • Worked on promotional pricing for retailers
  • Worked on ROIs to determine if a promotion was beneficial
  • Reported on results to Sales and upper management

New Product Development

  • Looked at the viability of new products to see an estimated revenue and profitability if launched as well as provide a target cost for the Research and Development department to hit.