Ashley McDaniel

About Ashley McDaniel

Driven and enthusiastic leader with over twenty years of supply chain, procurement, and operations experience in the fashion, beauty and hospitality/food service space. Adept at building relationships, improving processes, identifying cost saving solutions, and leading teams. Extensive experience in global sourcing, SAP/Ariba onboarding, inventory management, and change management. Positive by nature, and passionate about consumer experiences, I have been fortunate to have a career across a wide breadth of top companies and successful teams.

Experience

1. Senior Director - Category Development

   Foodbuy USA

   Jan 2025 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   Lead a team of talented category directors, managers and analysts to drive the strategy and management of Foodbuy suppliers in the areas of Kitchen Equipment, Smallwares, OCS, Design, Construction, Millwork and Distribution. • Lead team who manages numerous non-foods categories at an estimated value of $800M in spend.Achieve annual financial targets and take ownership for budget setting, ongoing management, and monthly re-forecasting of income.• Develop end-to-end category strategies, mapping out the current landscape and defining an improvement plan for the near, mid, and long-term to stimulate interest from and engagement with stakeholders.• Develop and maintain senior stakeholder business relationships to build and win internal and external support for the benefit of the business.• Work with senior leadership to refine and properly implement and track category utilization and growth initiatives to help drive key business strategies.

Education

• North Carolina State University

  Bachelor of Industrial Design, Industrial and Product Design