Mark Petranek
Merchandising, Purchasing and Category Management Professional
- Role
- Outdoor Products and Raw Materials at Zoro.com
- Location
- Aurora, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Mark Petranek
Merchandising professional with over 25 years of experience within the wholesale and retail hardware channel. Committed to growing sales, increasing profit, productivity and development of direct reports. Excellent negotiator and communicator with ability to swiftly establish rapport, build credibility and trust, and forge lasting relationships with customers and vendors- Cost and program negotiation- Selling programs to dealer base- Program planning and execution- Budget planning and pacing- Strategic marketing initiatives- Cross-functional collaboration- Forecasting and trend analysis- Regulatory compliance- Problem resolution- Team leadership and development- Wholesale/retail merchandise mixes
Experience
Outdoor Products and Raw Materials
Aug 2021 — Present
Education
DePaul University
Bachelors, Management
1997 — 1999
College of DuPage
Associates, Business
1995 — 1997
Skills
- Purchasing
- Forecasting
- Merchandising
- Cpfr
- Assortment
- Profit
- Inventory Management
- Categorization
- Warehousing
- Pricing
- Wholesale
- Strategy
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