Steve Hawksley

About Steve Hawksley

Creative problem solving professional with excellent communication skills. Experience working with executive teams, external and internal sales teams, and corporate clients. Integrate approaches with the understanding of the big picture to build strategic, tactical, and successful solutions. Significant category management experience and executive reporting. Impressive history of solving problems quickly and accurately.

Experience

1. Business, Category & Pricing Analyst

   Superior Grocers

   Mar 2023 — Present · Santa Fe Springs, CA, US

   Developed new strategic pricing, inventory, sales and category management reports and in-depth analyses to help optimize our approaches for efficiencies and effectiveness. Developed optimizing ordering guides for center store warehouse purchasing, including strategic sourcing and store ordering guides for DSD water distribution. Developed inventory on hand PowerBI app for complete view from all stores to districts to individual store inventories just by scanning the upc of any item. Developed shared ad grids to forecast and understand ad impacts of each promotion and communicate each promotion to ad grid layout to make our approach to the process much more efficient as a team and more profitable as a company. Developed Category Reviewers, Schematic Reviewers, Category Ad Planners to optimize our approach to market. Developed 17 different PowerBI reports to make my approach highly efficient and accurate by assimilating data from up to thirty different sources depending on the necessities of each project. Complete many ad hoc reports each week as requests are made. Teach our team different techniques to help each achieve their own goals.

Education

• Biola University

  Master’s Degree, Marketing-Finance-Entrepreneurial

  2004 — 2006

• California State University, Fullerton

  BA, Business - Marketing & Finance

  1994 — 1998

Skills

• Sales Operations
• Pricing Strategy
• Customer Service
• Logistics
• Training
• Retail Category Management
• National Accounts
• Merchandising
• Dairy
• Income Statement
• Product Development
• Profit
• P&L Management
• Iri
• Fmcg
• Microsoft Excel
• Jda
• Purchasing
• Spectra
• Management
• Private Label
• Project Management
• Retail
• Analytics
• Ac Nielsen
• Forecasting
• Frozen Food
• Food
• Nielsen
• Shopper Marketing
• Access
• Spins
• Key Account Management
• Tableau
• Grocery
• P&L
• Trade Marketing
• Consumer Products
• Assortment
• Customer Insight