amy grannick: Buyer/Category Manager in South Lake Tahoe, CA

Buyer/Category Manager: Snowboard + Watersports Hardgoods, Footwear, Optics, Accessories • Trend-Focused purchasing and product lifecycle management of the above categories for 6 Brick and Mortar Locations, Bluezonesports.com, and 3P Distribution. Budgeted 17M this year. • Regionalize Preseason purchasing, AO fills, stock balancing, markdowns/exit strategies- maintain margin and sales performance • Direct stores on merchandising and seasonal floor plans • Maintain strong and established vendor relationships to negotiate Co-Op $$, better terms and discounts, and creative partnership opportunities • Pivot Covid-impacted challenges into opportunities and wins • Collaborate alongside Marketing and Web Development team • Coordinate Hardgoods Demos and training with Staff, and Consumers (where Covid restrictions comply) • Leading the implementation of a new ERP System for buying team- will introduce many more tools like “Min/Max”, more effective reporting, and streamlined stock balancing procedures inter-store • LY was company’s strongest year due to being a destination-based region during pandemic, as well as implementing Ecom. TY we have greatly surpassed the record-breaking LY-YTD numbers in my purchased categories. **Ask me how I did it in a distribution impacted season! o Footwear- 75% increase TY over LY to date o Watersports- 47% increase TY over LY to date o Optics- 141% increase TY over LY to date o Snowboard- Estimating a 65-75% increase to LY based on prebooks

Sales Rep: Softgoods, Hardgoods, HG Accessories, Anon, Resorts • Attend trade shows for product showings, managed showroom for top-tier clients • Show full line extensively, discussing new F&B, innovations, and tech stories • Guide accounts on Preseason bookings with their given OTB; however, never failed to exceed those initial OTB numbers ;) • Service accounts with POP/merchandising, chasing AO orders, and maintaining strong relationships with key accounts • Conduct clinics + On-Snow Demos/Events • Created/successfully executed a Women’s Snow-Camping event for the territory shop-girls and community rippers (PASSION PROJECT- Lobbied for Burton’s Marketing Budget to get approved) o Provided the tools and skills training to Winter-camping and Backcountry Awareness o Taught group how to build backcountry freestyle parks- and ripped a Progression Session for all rider-levels! • Managed Territory Resorts’ business- 2nd biggest territory in the country • I was chosen as 1 of 30 Burton employees invited from all over the world (750 global employees), to attend the Global Resorts Conference o Brought creative and revolutionary ideas to evolve the inclusivity within the Resort business worldwide (how Burton can be that change). Analyzed current and forecasted trends via the “Anticipatory Organization” model o Ideas based off technologic advances/inventions, and accessibility within diverse demographics/ SES