About

Experienced Retail Finance, Planning, Merchandising, & Logistics Professional with 25 years' experience.

Skills

  • Profitability Optimization
    10
  • Microsoft Excel
    8
  • Finance analysis
    7
  •  Competitive Market and sales analysis with soft
    7
  • Logistics and supply chain management
    7
  • Developing and tracking Key performan Indicators
    8
  • Inventory Management Procurement & Logistics.
    7
  • Planning Budgeting & Forecasting
    10
  • Critical thinking and problem solving
    8
  • pricing strategy
    7
  • Quantitative and Qualitative data analysis
    7

Experience

JOHN GRIEM

Work experience
  • Forecasted Merchandise Finance P&L & Open to Buy. Optimized fulfillment logistics. Advised merchants & planning leadership.
  • Created & launched financial planning & allocation logistics processes. Provided COVID crisis leadership, revising process and creating KPI

JOHN GRIEM

Work experience
  • February, 2016 - January, 2017
  • Fulltime
  • Developed businesses leveraging syndicated data insights. Directed a team of 7 analysts. Established financial reporting process for clients.
  • Created Financial reporting suite and improved weekly report finalization by 2 days, saving 40 hours of labor per week.

JOHN GRIEM

Work experience
  • Financial Planning Director, Deli at   Walmart
  • Led Financial Planning team in budgeting & optimizing profit for $9B portfolio.
  • Improved annual profit by $200M and reduced shrink by 300 bp with increased process rigor.

JOHN GRIEM

Work experience
  • Sr. Buyer-Packaged Deli at   Walmart
  • Developed strategy & products for $2B portfolio.
  • Achieved 200 basis point market share improvement. Named #1 category innovator by Mintel.

JOHN GRIEM

Work experience
  • Sr. Financial Planner-Frozen at   Walmart
  • Created & category budgets and location specific feature plans.
  • Created Budgeting & Feature planning processes implemented throughout grocery.

JOHN GRIEM

Work experience
  • Led planners responsible for financial budgeting, optimizing, forecasting, and reporting development for total company for all businesses.
  • Created and installed financial budgeting & merchandise replenishment processes and reporting. Achieved 33% markdown reduction through assortment rationalization.

JOHN GRIEM

Work experience
  • Led Merch Planning team budgeting & optimizing a $1.5B portfolio. Led Replenishment team managing 10,000 SKU's.
  • Achieved top replenishment rank for all May Company divisons.

JOHN GRIEM

Education
  • English,
  • Phi Beta Kappa, English Honor's Society, Cum Laude, 3.9 GPA