Kathy Trautwein

St. Peters, MO *****

314-***-****

ac9f43@r.postjobfree.com

Accomplished and multi-faceted Category Manager/buyer with years of professional expertise Grocery, Food, Beverage and Fresh/Smoked Industries. Exceeds goals with an effective management style, superior communication skill and strategic business development planning. Successfully secures sales and revenue by capitalizing on growth opportunities.

Employment Experience:

Treehouse Foods, Material Manager Analyst (Present)

Manage Material inventory levels at 4 Plants

Maintain Blanket Orders for 4 Plants

Work with R & D Dept. on multiple New Projects

Manage process with Buyers, Planners, Plants and R & D.

Forecast Commodity items for Bake Goods Divisions

Save A Lot Food Stores, Category Manager (2013 to 2018)

Category Management for Fresh. Frozen Poultry and Turkey

Negotiated contracts with Vendors

Responsible for Merchandising and Retail Pricing for over 1300 stores

Budgeting and P & L for Corp and Independent Stores

Manage inventory for 16 Distribution Centers

Supply Cain Management

Collaborated with Quality Assurance and Warehousing personnel to eliminate aged inventory and ensure inventory turnover goals were achieved

Establish annual budget for both Retail and Wholesale business exceeding $220M annually

Maintain a 98.5% on Service Level

Worked with multiple Retail Partners and Sales staff in securing their needs

Built Customer Relations

Implemented a promotional calendar by major category and forecasting sales

Coordinated Material requirements with scheduling, production, sales, and marketing to support short- and long-term forecasting.

Work with vendors on scheduling, branding, packaging and ingredients’

Partnered with 16 D.C.’s with scheduling and forecasting

Managed multiple RFP’s on commodity items that was over $10 million in annual saving to the business.

Assisted in Creating Perishable buying system

Established receiving and shipping specs of product

Save A Lot Food Stores, Senior Sourcing Manager (2003 to 2013)

Save A Lot Food Stores, Fresh Buyer (1997 to 2003)

Purchased Fresh Beef, Pork and Poultry for 3 D.C.’s.

John Morrell, Sales Support Specialist (06/1995 to 07/1996)

Managed data base for sales on Fresh Pork

Implemented pricing

Placed multiply orders for Customers

National Super Markets, Fresh Buyer (05/1987 to 06/1995)

Managed purchasing for all varieties of fresh and smoked meat commodities

Involved in all aspects of store Merchandising and pricing

Worked with Merchandising Field Personnel to maintain product integrity

Summary of Skills

Budgeting Customer Service Forecasting

Inventory Management Procurement Merchandising

Marketing Retail Analytics

Buying P & L

Tableau Excel MS Power Point

MS Word AS400 E3

e-Sourcing Oracle Triceps

QAD JDE SAP

MRP ERP

Education

Florissant Valley Community College

Meat Management and Operations classes

Negotiation Seminars/Classes

Category Management Seminars/Classes

Learning Cart Seminars

Time Management Seminar

UB Markets Classes

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