Sonja Scott
Bella Vista
Summary
Dynamic and performance-driven business professional with high integrity, strong work ethic and great leadership skills. Meticulous and resourceful Business Manager with proven success leading productive teams, controlling budgets, networking to drive growth initiatives and marketing to maximize brand outreach.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Business Manager
NVM Pet, Inc.
12.2024 - Current
Business Account Manager/Sales
Twenty4Seven Innovations
Bentonville
12.2014 - 09.2024
- Established strategic vision & perspective, decision making agility, providing motivated leadership through creative and innovative customer approaches, and utilizing business & financial acumen to deliver assigned revenue & profit goals
- Cultivate data to present story to proactively change the outcome to have increase in sales.
- Cultivate growth opportunities
- Establish customer priorities, objectives and strategies
- Foster relationships with buyers and buying team through emails, phone calls and sales meetings to collaborate on products and the creation of new products to optimize growth in the department.
Contract Position
Flowers Food
Bentonville
01.2014 - 07.2024
Insurance Sales
Banker’s Life
Lowell
06.2013 - 12.2013
- Set appointments for home visits
- Initiated in-home visits to sell insurance products to individuals to optimize security for the future.
Sales/Analyst
Comag Marketing Group
Bentonville
03.2006 - 04.2013
- Fostered a collaborative and supportive environment between the manufacturer and the retailer.
- Execute strategies to bring vision and priorities to life to enhance product selection for increased profitability.
- Proactively identify marketplace trends through comparative shopping for pricing and products in the industry.
- Cultivated a clear understanding of our responsibilities for compliance on sustainability concerns with our product, packaging and factories.
- Initiated special product development for special programs.
- Modular planning for over 10,000 plan-o-grams. Optimizing shelf space for our product to be in the best positions.
- Initiated and Develop presentation for management regarding item performance, promotions and future opportunities.
- Engaged and inspired cross merchandising with clients and other vendors to enhance revenue driving opportunities.
- Built trusted relationship with management/clients.
- Provide ad hoc analysis for special projects driven by clients or internal needs.
- Assist Walmart buyers with counting fixtures, displaying signage and logos, installation of fixtures and set up prototypes, in market review.
- Develop analytical reporting – securing relevant information relating to company data from different resources.
- Influenced Buyer as to where to place certain product versus competitions product.
- Used rational thinking to consider alternative courses of action to achieve goals and objects.
- Developed and Facilitated Client events with buyer.
- Executed and Gained market understanding by traveling to the markets.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Marketing Management
University of Arkansas
Marketing Analyst, Virtual Merchandising
Northwest Arkansas Community College
Skills
- Adobe Dynamic Media Classic-Scene-7
- IDM
- Item 360
- CSI Color
- Excel
- Word
- PPT
- Retail link
- Quickbooks
- Legal
- Compliance Procedures
- Driven
- Organized
- Task Oriented
- Financial Budgeting
- Team Player
- Strategic Thinking
Additional Information
Established strategic vision & perspective, decision making agility, providing motivated leadership through creative and innovative customer approaches, and utilizing business & financial acumen to deliver assigned revenue & profit goals., Cultivated data to present story to proactively change the outcome to have increase in sales. Cultivated growth opportunities., Established customer priorities, objectives and strategies., Fostered relationships with buyers and buying team through emails, phone calls and sales meetings to collaborate on products and the creation of new products to optimize growth in the department.
Timeline
Business Manager
NVM Pet, Inc.
12.2024 - Current
Business Account Manager/Sales
Twenty4Seven Innovations
12.2014 - 09.2024
Contract Position
Flowers Food
01.2014 - 07.2024
Insurance Sales
Banker’s Life
06.2013 - 12.2013
Sales/Analyst
Comag Marketing Group
03.2006 - 04.2013
Bachelor of Science - Marketing Management
University of Arkansas
Marketing Analyst, Virtual Merchandising
Northwest Arkansas Community College