Annie Wagner: in Denver, CO

Managed beverage category for 3 convenience store accounts totaling over 800 retail outlets nationally. Planned simultaneous visual merchandising projects in achieving chain volume, space, and distribution goals. • Developed and implemented alternate timeline structure enabling customer to sell innovative products 3 weeks faster and 1st to market. • Attended roundtable meetings with competitors held at account headquarters. Influenced and sold to customer increasing company's points of distribution 300%. • Cross culturally trained and led team of Romania-based merchandising analysts by providing standard operating procedures, software tools, and project trackers. Hit daily quotas and quality goals significantly increasing efficiency. • Sold in company strategy and awarded 50% captainship over competitors. Recognized as high performer within organization.

Developed quality planograms according to retailer guidelines and company strategy. • Led team of 8 analysts and delivered 1046 quality planograms for national account Target. Successful delivery resulted in Target voting MillerCoors as #1 Supplier in 2017. Recognized by MillerCoors as Category Management Partner of the Year. • Created technical tools for process improvement. Received Best Individual Quality Award for national account 7-11. Identified opportunities to close project gaps by collecting feedback from team members. Implementing recommendations pioneered cohesive succession plan. • Converted both syndicated and retailer sales data to match internal product database and stock keeping units (SKUs). Uploaded data, products, and planogram files into JDA system. Maintained accurate database by resolving system errors.

Created estimates and schedules, secured crew and talent for on-location, out-of-state, and studio based photography and video productions averaging budgets of $120k. • Motivated team ranging from 10-20 persons and adhered to tight deadlines. Partnered with account team, internal staff, and outside vendors executing profitable content for catalogs, social media, and e-commerce sites. • Negotiated rates, meticulously tracked invoicing, and paperwork. Set vendors up in system, prepared time sheets, and submitted purchase orders. • Achieved 33% average profit margin with projects coming in $25k under budget.

Oversaw all high volume catalog product photography exceeding client expectations. • Handled photography file management and quality control of images. Provided consistent direction to photographers significantly reducing number of reshoots. • Developed and communicated photography processes with client resulting in meeting timelines ahead of schedule.

Managed time and complex schedules as direct support for 6 B-Level Executives.

Liaised with Photography, Editorial, Accounting, Rights and Permissions, Photo Archives Library, stylists and West Coast studio personnel departments. Received, inventoried, and returned products and props for shoots according to schedule. • Maintained merchandise database / spreadsheets and contract / release room and published feature files. • Scouted locations and conducted ideation brainstorming with Managing Photo Director and Art Director. Assisted with general support to the Managing Photo Director. • Reviewed layouts for page content accuracy and proofread published monthly photo credits for the entire magazine.