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.
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.
Analytical Skills: - Specialization in Supply Chain Management, Sourcing and Procurement.
- Experience with understanding manufacturing modes and strategies utilized, and Supplier/Customer MRP workflows.
- Resource planning, Allocation, Detailed record-keeping, Work-flow Mapping.
- Experience in gathering and analyzing data from CensusData, FRED’s microeconomic and macroeconomic data, EDGAR, and Preference Index (Dunnhumby RPI), Net Promoter Scores, data for business analysis, along with board industry sector NPS standings.
- Comprehensive Corporate P&L; and financial analysis, cash-flow modeling, demand-price analysis, inventory forecasting, cost and schedule variances, time-phased budgeting.
- Experience with understanding all relevant employment laws including ADA, ADAA, Title 7.
| Management/Leadership Skills: - Inclusive collaborative, communicative, Rapport-building mindset.
- New Business Development with established rolodex.
- Business-to-Business and Business Planning..
- Sales Processes, Sales Operations, and Sales Management.
- Lead Nurturing and Client Relation management
- Experience in analyzing Income Statements, Cash-flow Statements,and Balance Sheets, alongside financial liquidity and risk ratios.
- Understanding retail operations from operational aspects such as Inventory, Cost, Pricing, and Vendor management.
- Experience with client engagement, and relationship, alongside full scope of customer and sales marketing experience.
- Experience in sales generation, direct and digital SEO and SEM, and mainstream digital marketing platforms.
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Technical Skills: - SalesForce (badges), Google Cloud Analytics, Asana, Jira, Confluence, Hubspot experience.
- Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Google, Pointy, developer and advertising platform use.
- Direct and Syndicated CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods Retailer) exposure.
- Microsoft 365 and Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Projects experience.
- Google Docs, Sheets, Python application in Google Colab and Jupyter Notebook Python data analytics.
- Advanced Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat.
- PHP, HTML, CSS, Pyscript, Streamlit, Javascript, Ajax and frameworks such as JQuery, Bootstrap, Nodejs, Reactjs, tesseract js of Optical Character Recognition.
- MySql, InnoDB, Mongodb, JSON, GeoJSON.
- Database management using SQL and no-sql JSON, CSV management.
- R Studio, SPSS for statistical analysis
- Python pip frameworks such as Pyautogui, Beautiful-Soup, Selenium, Tensorflow, Keras,and Matplotlib.. Recently, py-scripts for browser based low cost automation.
- Experience with Robotic Process Automation platform(RPA) Blue-Prism and Salesforce.
- Experience with utilizing Electronic Data Interfaces(EDI) in the context of ERP.
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Completed Academic 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)
Completed Specialization (Credential ID available for each): - 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
Associations:: - Member of National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS)
- SBA SCORE Volunteer Mentor/Volunteer
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Work Experiences:
Multi-site Managing Partner: 03/2017 to 06/2022
Ssmedusa Investment Inc. Newport Beach, CA
- Managing Partner of multi-site retail business, and oversaw all business planning, development, P&L responsibilities, talent management, operations management, compliance requirements, new business development.
- Full-cycle Recruiting, training development, and training business managers in inventory, cash, sales process. It is a matter of great pride that throughout the 2019-2021 pandemic, the company maintained a high employee retention rate over 90%.
- Oversaw a growth of 7% in net-profit per annum on average per site. This was accomplished by continuous training of staff, 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.
- Lead each site away from paper record-keeping to a fully digital and autonomous paperless, ink-less process, reducing error-rate, along with wastage of paper, ink, time, and lowering the overall cost of operations. Streamlined all operational attributes and organization data in a single W-POS/CMS. Outcome was error elimination in data collection, processing, and retention of an average 1.5% in revenue per quarter. Additional reduction in inventory shrinkage to below 0.4% per inventory reconciliation.
- Oversaw the development of a Inventory management framework called FAIR-LEAD (Fully Autonomous Inventory Reconciliation with Lowest Excess Anticipated Demand) within the single POS/CMS system. With this framework and POS system each site was able to maintain an inventory in-stock level on all products above 96% winning the company a total of 18 mystery shopper awards, all the while reducing inventory carrying cost by 6%.
- Led product marketing strategy, Search-engine optimization to showcase product pricing on google, facebook.
- Strategic Partnership with managers from Pepsico, Couche-Tard, Coremark, Alta-Dena, Reyes Brothers, Harbor Distributing, and Anheuser-Busch.
Managing Partner: 02/2015 to 05/2021
Sai Investments Inc. Huntington Beach, CA
- Managing Partner in Retail Packaging, Freighting, and Shipping Stores in San Juan Capistrano and Huntington Beach, and led B2B sales in the city, and gained recognition by winning mystery shopper awards on behalf of our staff’s customer service.
- Oversaw all business operations such as: recruitment, training, onboarding, payroll processing, inventory management, daily, weekly, and monthly financial variance management.
- Enhanced the practice of continuous improvement for improved metrics in customer retention, sales, inventory management and cash-flow variances. Developed in-house tools for digital training materials, staff on-boarding, and employee performance feedback, alongside all the payroll processing and human resource management.
- Collaborated with Corporate head-office Mail-boxes Etc. in business operations, and projected their business goals in the practice of the business operations.
- Record of zero work-place incidents and accidents due to continuous employees training, and proactive with implementing safety policies and procedures.
Operations Consultant (Part-time, Remote): 08/2017 to 04/2022
International Sikh Council for Women (ISCW) (84-2149607) Mechanicsburg, PA
- Led the in-house development of a systematic RFP response, alongside Cal-Grant-writing framework including document management for the non-profit organization.
- Established a comprehensive non-for-profit Project Management platform called ISCW PORTAL for team-oriented Project Management, volunteers, and administrators to work on drives, and prospective agendas.
- Worked with multiple batches of high-school students in training them on project campaign management for clothing donation drives, food drives, all through ISCW Portal.
Business Manager
The UPS Store #2339 2009-2016, Anaheim, CA
- Oversaw employee hiring, recruitment and training.
- Oversaw all aspects of the business, including business development. Saw sales improve on average 19% Year-over-Year.
- Cultivated relations with customers to drive client retention and long-term growth initiatives.
- 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):
University of California, Irvine. 2007-2009 Irvine, CA
- Paid Stipend Research position at University of California as an undergraduate researcher. Researched cultural assimilation of zero-generation Asian American students in Southern California. Presented and Published in the UROP journal published by University of California, Irvine, 2009.
- Utilized data collection tools, statistical analysis, and inferences through SPSS, Excel.
Work (Volunteer) Experience
Medical Center Volunteer (Every Saturday and some Sundays): 01/2011 to 10/2014
University of California, Irvine. Orange, CA
- Completed exactly 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.