Emily Akerson

Highlights include: • Developed the category strategy for the $90 Million Baby business with a focus on identifying new retailer opportunities to increase category sales by 3%. • Build and deepen relationships with retailers and internal teams to accelerate retailer exclusive brands resulting in new consumers and market share growth. • Serve as trusted advisor to account managers, marketing, supply chain, and finance teams influencing decisions on retailer and brand plans and overall prioritization to accelerate portfolio growth. • Manage and coach 7 direct and in-direct reports, delivering onboarding, learning opportunities, skill development and leadership exposure. Areas of Focus: Business Strategy Development and Execution, Growth Strategy, Account Management, Customer Marketing, Cross-Functional Leadership, Relationship Building, Project Management, Strategic Communication, Consensus Building, Management, Coaching, Mentorship

Highlights included: • Facilitated the redevelopment of the Go-To-Market strategy for the Face Care category and owned the channel execution across all retailers resulting in mitigating over $3M in turnover loss risk. • Established customer growth targets for a $300M business and leveraged a $36M trade spend budget to deliver 4% in underlying sales growth. • Uncovered $13M in turnover by leveraging consumer insights to identify assortment gaps for brick & mortar and e-commerce platforms. • Managed 3 direct and indirect reports: scoped projects to develop soft skills and gain visibility to leadership resulting in promotions. Areas of Focus: Business Strategy Development and Execution, Growth Strategy, Account Management, Cross-Functional Leadership, Customer Marketing, Relationship Building, Project Management, Process Optimization, Research, Analysis, Forecasting, Strategic Communication, Consensus Building

Highlights included: • Closed a $9M turnover gap by creating clear priorities and execution tactics and collaborating with cross-functional teams on solutions for supply chain issues. • Improved innovation acceptance by 30% and delivering $20M in turnover by initiating workstream to align timelines with global teams and creating a new yearly cross-functional meeting. • Increased sales by 14% and gross margin by 39 bps by executing and coordinating pricing actions. Areas of focus: Business Strategy Development and Execution, Growth Strategy, Account Management, Process Optimization, Cross-Functional Leadership, Relationship Building, Project Management, Strategic Communication, Research, Analysis, Forecasting, Customer Marketing

Highlights included: • Secured $6M in turnover by developing creative solutions to expedite timelines and motivate a cross functional team to deliver projects on time, in full. • Improved profit margin by 270 bps by partnering with account managers and suppliers to find efficiencies through post event analyses. • Executed 30-50 programs at a time to deliver high in store visibility by managing display opportunities across all accounts. Areas of focus: Project Management, Growth Strategy, Process Optimization, Cross-Functional Leadership, Relationship Building, Strategic Communication, Research, Analysis, Forecasting

Highlights included: • Increasing on time and in full delivery of new projects by 46% by developing a tool to better align with other supply chain planners, track project timelines and mitigate risk • Reviewing tradeoffs weekly to improve re packing efficiencies, maintain inventory levels and improve customer service to effectively deliver $45M in turnover Areas of focus: Supply Chain Management, Process Optimization, Cross-Functional Leadership, Relationship Building, Strategic Communication, Research, Analysis

Highlights included: • Improving customer service by 10% and reduced material waste by 60% by efficiently managing raw pack WIP inventory and effectively planning production requirements Areas of focus: Areas of focus: Supply Chain Management, Process Optimization, Cross-Functional Leadership, Relationship Building, Strategic Communication, Research, Analysis