San Rafael, California, United States
Jennifer has a strong supply chain background spanning over 13 years while specializing in outdoor retail. She has excellent written and verbal interpersonal communication skills with customers, vendors, operations, and management. Jennifer is a strong negotiator excelling in high stakes dynamic environments with a keen ability to prioritize multiple tasks and manage numerous deadlines. She is currently a Senior Buyer for Camp/Hike and Snow Apparel and Accessories at Sports Basement. Jennifer was featured as a consultant on Season 1 of CNBC's Make Me a Millionaire Inventor. Jennifer has a Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Science and (Business) Management from the University of California at Davis.
• Oversees and implements budgeting, planning, forecasting, purchasing, and allocation for the largest business unit in the company. • Evaluating, analyzing, adjusting, and optimizing existing and incoming inventory. • Establishing and fostering partnerships with vendors through procurement and negotiation. • Partnering with Marketing, Operations, Receiving, and Accounting to support company or department initiatives to drive sales and growth • Training, mentoring, and developing Assistant Buyers and Buyers. • Contributed to a record-breaking sales year for the company with unprecedented sales metrics in the business unit • Consistently leading the company in YOY double-digit percentage growth while increasing margins and ROI. • Saving the company millions of dollars through negotiations and securing unpublished pricing, discounts, and terms.
• Providing assistance to customers by communicating technologies and benefits of products • Meeting individual and store sales goals established by management • Consistently leading in sales per hour and per transaction and increased conversion rates • Monitoring and practicing loss prevention standards • Train peers during monthly store meetings and product clinics • Assist in merchandising and store layouts
• Coordinated projects and orders for entire product lifecycles for the largest business unit (accessories) across Design, Manufacturing, Creative, Packaging, and international safety testing through Bureau Veritas • Procured vendors, manufacturers and products; negotiated product prices and terms for fulfillment • Managed fulfillment of open purchase orders
• Design and logistics consultant • Developing and managing client budgets • Vendor and venue research, procurement, and negotiations • Creating and executing detailed event timelines and floor plans • Organizing and managing events from set up to strike with vendors