Teigen Ahrens

-Develop a category strategy and work cross functionally with Marketing, Ops, & Finance to execute on goals. -Negotiate all costs, set retails, manage co-op funding/ promotions, & create tailored assortments of product for 47 unique locations.

-Ran forecast and replenishment on all DeWalt -Assisted with transitioning Murdochs into a new ERP system by developing best practices in a new replenishment software. -Worked closely with buyer on product and promotional negotiations.

-Assist the buyer in cutting POs, setting pricing, & loading promotions. -Ran forecast & replenishment for all Milwaukee products -Continued developing my skillset around process automation, built a web scraping tool using Python, & built the automated process for onboarding all new items.

-Manage all cash flow in and out of the company's bank accounts as well as build a daily cash report for the owners. -Build and maintain BI reports to investigate trouble accounts. -Worked as a GL accountant booking all necessary journal entries for several accounts as well as reconciling them. -Learned to use Power Automate to streamline repetitive tasks within the business, including a program that read and sorted, every invoice the company received.

-Performed annual reviews for customers with high amounts of outstanding debt. -Assisted with an in-depth review of a high-risk lending industry. -Worked on the new Paycheck Protection loans to assist customers in getting full forgiveness.

-Assigned a project to investigate and optimize off-shelf merchandising. -Worked with P&G, the stores, the regional merchants, Acosta, and drugstore procurement. -Identified three major areas for improvement and a variety of cost-effective solutions. -Presented to the procurement team on dilemmas in communication between departments.