Joseph E.

Experience

1. Senior Buyer Senior Replenishment Planner

   Albertsons Companies

   Mar 2018 — Present · North Salt Lake, UT, US

   23 years+ of supply chain and procurement expert with best-in-class strategies and disciplines that maximize sales with a focus on aligning procurement with category and merchandising plans, while meeting and exceeding key performance indicators through inventory management, minimizing spoilage, and optimizing profitability. I collaborate with category management and provide recommendations on SKU rationalization and provide support on implementing first-to-market buying strategies with push strategy distribution plans to support new item demos and promotions. I have extensive experience analyzing and managing acquisition costs to maximize category sales, promotions, and investment profitability. My expertise includes resolving vendor billing discrepancies, and identifying late or missing allowance submissions, and mentor others in preventing of future cost issues. I maintain strong, collaborative relationships with vendors and brokers, and I share pre & post-promotion scorecards to improve sales performance and negotiate solutions to minimize excessive inventory and spoilage. I have extensive experience working with vendors to maintain high in-stock rates for our stores and in the maximize of on-time deliveries. I’m a data mining expert and have developed promotional store surveys that allocate store orders to support promotional ads & displays, which includes the utilization of Micro-Strategies to QMF to develop SBP Events that enhances forecast accuracy and category execution. I\'ve developed various tools and automated reports that enhance and improve promotional forecast accuracy, such as macro-based tools in Excel, and custom SQL queries through QMF & PowerBI to identify opportunities to supplement FAR forecasts & in-stock targets. I excel at conducting thorough analyses and mentoring my team. I empower them to adopt a \"business owner\" mindset and encourage them to strategize for continuous improvement in serving our stores.

Education

• Institute of Supply Chain Management

  CPSM License

  2010 — 2014

• University of Phoenix

  Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.)

  2003 — 2005

• West High School

  High School Diploma

  1989 — 1993

• Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University

  Master of Information Systems Management

  2011 — 2015

• Weber State University

  Accounting

  2001 — 2003

• University of Utah

  Film Studies

  1993 — 1995

• University of Phoenix

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

  2006 — 2008