Amannprit Singh Bedi  

Business Management Analyst with 9+ years in retail business, sales, operational management.

MBA in Project Management, Finance, General Management; LSSBB, Agile Certified; Bachelors in Psychology, Cognitive Science; Associates in Chemistry.

Profile: https://linkedin.com/in/amannprit

Website: https://amanslist.link 

Email: amanbediresume@gmail.com

Phone: 949-293-8977

SUMMARY:

A technologist and agile value-oriented business development analyst with more than 9 years experience in management, sales, operations of multi-site retail business. Being a cross-functional, self-organizing, intrinsically-motivated analyst with technical skills and business acumen to execute a broad range of business goals for prospective value-generation. As someone who has experience in building strong teams, enabling successful sales processes,  strategically  improving business processes, managing accountable business practices, collecting and utilizing aggregate data on brands, products, consumer-trends, social media trends, and economic data analysis in decision-making process.

SKILLS:

Business Management and Analytical Skills: Full sales-cycle management, B2B and B2C sales, account management., Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing, Procurement Supplier/Consumer MRP management, and Full-cycle CPG management. Full marketing analysis, Decision-making, Problem Solving. Business Contract negotiation, Pricing negotiation, trade-allowance agreement. Data-Mining, Data- Market Analysis, Business Analysis using CensusData, FRED, SEC EDGAR, NOAA, Preference Index (Dunnhumby RPI), Net Promoter Scores. Corporate P&L management, cash-flow modeling, demand-price analysis, inventory forecasting, cost and schedule variances,  time-phased budgeting, Full Retail management, HR management and vendor management. Staff/ talent work-flow, training and management, and strong writer and verbal communications and interpersonal skills alongside public-speaking competencies.

 Technical Skills:

• SalesForce (badges), Google Cloud Analytics Certified, Asana, Jira, Confluence, Hubspot experience.
• Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Google,  Pointy,  developer and advertising  platform use.
• Experience with R Studio, SPSS for statistical analysis, Tableau and Power-Bi for Data Visualization.
• Database management using SQL and  no-sql JSON, mongodb, CSV management, and API data mining.
• Direct and Syndicated CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods Retailer) exposure.
• Microsoft 365 and Word, Excel, Powerpoint, MSProjects experience.
• Google Docs, Sheets, Python application in Google Colab and Jupyter Notebook Python data analytics.
• Python pip frameworks such as Pyautogui, Beautiful-Soup, Selenium, Tensorflow, Keras,and Matplotlib.. Recently, py-scripts for browser based low cost automation.
• Advanced Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop,  Acrobat.
• PHP, HTML, CSS, Pyscript, Streamlit, Javascript, Ajax and frameworks such as JQuery, Bootstrap, Nodejs, Reactjs.
• Experience with Robotic Process Automation platform(RPA) Blue-Prism.
• Experience with utilizing Electronic Data Interfaces(EDI) in the context of ERP.

EDUCATION:

• Keller Graduate School of Management: MBA, Masters in Business Administration with  specializations
• in Finance, Project Management, and General Administration.   (San Diego, CA)
• University of California at Irvine: Bachelor's degree in Psychology(Cognitive Science). ( Irvine, CA)
• Irvine Valley College(AA): Associates Degree in Chemistry. ( Irvine, CA)
• Saddleback College: Undergraduate Basic Sciences. ( Mission Viejo, CA)

CERTIFICATION:

• Global Procurement and Sourcing Specialization & Supply-Chain Management Specialization by Rutgers School of Business.
• Google Project-Management Professional Specialization & Google Cloud Platform Business Certification by Google Career Certificates.
• Google Data Analytics Certification by Google Career Certificates.
• Project Management Principles and Practices Specialization by University of California, Irvine.
• ICPM Certified Supervisor by Institute of Certified Professional Managers.
• Lean Six-Sigma Black Belt Professional Certified (LSBB) &  Agile Project Management Certification by Management and Strategy Institute.
• Executive Data Science Specialization by John Hopkins University.
• Specialization in Finance and Quantitative Modeling For Analysts by Wharton School of Finance at University of Pennsylvania.
• National Register for Food Safety, Occupational Safety and Health-Certified by Premier Food Safety Institute.

GROUPS ASSOCIATIONS:

• Member of National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS).
• SBA SCORE Volunteer Mentor/Volunteer.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Business Analyst, Operations and Sales Partner:                                                                                        03/2017 to 06/2022 

Ssmedusa Investment Inc.,  Newport Beach, CA         

• Role : Led as business Analyst, and Managing Partner of multi-site business, led business planning, P&L responsibilities, budgeting, Sales management, talent management, operations management, supply chain management, and new business development through strategic partnership with managers from Pepsico, Couche-Tard, Coremark, Alta-Dena, Reyes Brothers, Harbor Distributing, and Anheuser-Busch.
• Led each site to full digitalization by developing a new POS/CMS/ERP tool called W-POS with our own inventory management system called FAIR-LEAD (Fully Autonomous Inventory Reconciliation with Lowest Excess Anticipated Demand) built on mysql and json.
• Full-cycle Recruiting, training development, and training program for business managers in inventory, cash, sales process, customer service. A continuous-training of staff was done utilizing W-POS.
• Results :  Reduction in paper-usage by over 95%. Oversaw growth of 7% per annum on average per site., high in-stock levels, and improved revenue, with steady cost-reduction, digital inventory management, and reduction in inventory shrinkage, automated work-flow processes, and aggressive regional marketing via Facebook and Google.
• Error elimination in shift entries, and an average increase of 1.5% in revenue per quarter. Additional reduction in inventory shrinkage to below 0.4% per quarter, a reduction in excess inventory carrying cost by 6%. Employee-turnover was reduced below 10% per year.
• With the W-POS system each site was able to maintain an inventory in-stock level on all products above 96% through forecasting.

Business Development Partner:                                                                                                                     02/2015 to 05/2021

Sai Investments Inc.,  Huntington Beach, CA         

• Role : Operating business Partner in Retail convenience store and gas-station, along with retail Packaging, Freighting, and Shipping Stores in San Juan Capistrano and Huntington Beach. Developed relations with the city as a preferred vendor of services for San Juan Capistrano, and with Capistrano Unified School District. Collaborated with Corporate head-office Mail-boxes Etc. in business operations, and projected their business goals in the practice of the business operations. Similarly developed relations with the city of Huntington Beach Police Department as preferred vendor, and volunteer of needs for the city law-enforcement.
• Implemented  the in-house POS/CMS.ERP called WPOS tools for improved metrics in customer retention, sales, inventory management and cash-flow variances. Used MS Projects as the Project management software for task management, budgeting, cost management, and schedule management of the iterations of WPOS roll-out at each site sequentially.
• Implemented the WPOS tools in stores for training, staff on-boarding, and employee performance feedback, alongside all the payroll processing and human resource management.

• Results: Successfully implemented  our ERP software at each site within schedule.
• Improvement in revenue by an average 8.3% per annum with reduction in inventory shrinkage and wastage to below 0.8% per quarter. Due to continuous training, we had 0 work-place incidents, accidents.

Operations Consultant (Part-time, Remote):                                                                                                   08/2017 to 04/2022

International Sikh Council for Women (ISCW) (84-2149607), Mechanicsburg, PA.

• Role : Led the in-house product-development of a systematic RFP response, alongside Cal-Grant-writing framework including document management, business management, and product management for the non-profit organization.
• Established a comprehensive non-for-profit Project Management platform called ISCW Portal for volunteer management, team-oriented Project Management, volunteers, and administrators to work on drives, and prospective agendas.
• Result : Filed 3 responses to cal-grants RFP’s, oversaw clothing campaigns of over 100 barrels of clothes to salvation army, and trained 2 batches of students on project campaign management for clothing donation drives, food drives.

Business Manager:                                                                                                                                     08/2009 - 04/2016        

DBA The UPS Store #2339., Anaheim, CA

• Cultivated relations with customers to drive client retention and long-term growth initiatives.
• Oversaw all aspects of the business, including business development. Saw sales improve on average 19% Year-over-Year.
• Provide clients with packaging, crating, freighting, and shipping solutions to create value for them in their shipping process.
• Created relations with Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, and built long relations with the city council as a preferred city vendor.
• Provided clients with document service needs and provide solutions for software such as Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher.         

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (Full-time Student):                                                    04/2007-08/2009         

University of California, Irvine., CA                          

• Completed the Institutional Review Board processes under guidance of Dr. Jonathan Flojo as an undergraduate researcher. Researched cultural assimilation of zero-generation Asian American students in the USA. Was published by University School of Social Science in the Undergraduate Research Journal by University of California, Irvine, 2009.
• Utilized data collection tools, statistical analysis, and inferences through SPSS, Excel.

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE:

Medical Center Volunteer (Weekends):                                                                                                           01/2011 to 10/2014

University of California Medical Center, Orange, CA        

• Completed 1025 hours at the University of California, as a Volunteer at Children Hospital of Orange County alongside patient Interaction and support at Douglas Hospital, Chao Cancer Center, Post-Operative Care Unit, and UCI Medical Tower at the UCI Medical Center.