Katie Mink

• Promoted to dual-banner Sales Planning leadership role overseeing Price Chopper and Tops Markets; led a team of 30 to drive promotional strategy and end-to-end execution excellence for the weekly ad circular and integrated marketing campaigns. • Integrated ad planning workflows across both operating companies to strengthen cross-banner coordination, synchronize planning cycles, and optimize efficiency while maintaining each banner’s distinct brand identity. • Drove adoption of enhanced ad planning methodologies across both operating companies, strengthening overall planning outcomes and execution consistency, which contributed to a 5–8% year-over-year increase in promotional sales. • Drove a 30% reduction in promotional errors by implementing an enhanced review process that remained consistent throughout IT system integrations, mitigating financial exposure and strengthening customer confidence.

• Assumed additional responsibilities after a corporate restructuring that now includes oversight of 14 staff and 4 departments: sales planning, merchandizing support, pricing, and health and wellness. • Developed promotional strategies for the weekly ad (item, price, theme) that maximized sales and customer engagement while optimizing internal promotional spend. • Led a deep dive into our Key Value Items—220 traffic-driving products—to analyze and then adjust our pricing strategy to effectively compete. • This aggressive pricing program, with a cost of $10MM, is constantly monitored and amplified with both in-store and advertising callouts and continues to generate positive sales lifts. • Partner with category planners on staple (i.e., cereal, yogurt) and perishable resets to optimize the shelf set and understand the drivers for both strong and sluggish sales; refining as needed to deliver the best results.

• Manager of Sales Planning (Apr 2016 – Jun 2018) • Promoted to Director in June of 2018. • Transitioned to this sales planning role that focused on the merchandising and promotional aspects of the business— crucial drivers of our year-round sales. • Led our quarterly and period planning, with a focus on our weekly ad, to consistently compete in our markets. • Analyzed historical ad promotions to gain deeper, fact-based insights on their performance through defined metrics and benchmarking. • Managed a team of 5 and implemented changes that substantially improved the communication among the department heads that drove alignment and delivered the most impactful ads and in-store strategies. • Promoted to the director role with expanded responsibilities that included oversight of our health and wellness department and our corporate dietician. • Ramped up our in-store shelf tags that brought visibility of our nutritional programs to our customers - a key focus at the time. Evaluated multiple vendors and collaborated with the one who helped deliver this program.

• Promoted to design and oversee the new process for re-mapping existing and upcoming new stores to optimize our labor needs. Formally managed 1 labor analyst. • Led a team of 4 and identified ~$1.8MM annually in fixed activity labor savings for 135 stores. • Documented and standardized these updated best practices and procedures and created easy-to-follow visual method sheets and instructions for stores to drive consistencies and cut costs.

• Analyzed our existing labor standards and rewrote and implemented updated policies and processes that included all fixed and variable costs. • These new labor standards resulted in $2MM of savings. • Collaborated with store employees to understand their specific procedures and ensure these updated policy changes were accurately applied at the store level.

• Worked with cross-functional partners to solve engineering and quality challenges and prevent repeat incidents. • Initiated a scorecard to more clearly track and pinpoint a pattern of issues that provided even more transparency. • Produced and delivered daily, weekly, and monthly detailed quality reports to upper management.

• Meticulously reviewed and updated preventative maintenance policies and procedures to ensure the steps were clear and performed with more frequency. • Overhauled the inventory management system and consistently guaranteed all parts and equipment were in stock to avoid any disruptions. • Provided statistical analysis to the plant engineer by converting raw data into digestible tables and charts used for internal presentations.