Brooke Sankey

Experience

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  Kansas State University

  Jul 2014 - May 2016

  Study Abroad Peer Advisor

  As a Peer Advisor at the KSU Study Abroad Office, I was responsible for guiding students in planning their trips abroad via email and one-on-one meetings. I also collaborated with advisors to determine academic trends pursued by students and presented findings to professors.

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  Payless ShoeSource

  Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

  Buying Intern

  -Researched, presented and implemented new in-store marketing strategies for women’s wide width class-Analyzed weekly merchandise performance reports to monitor statistical objectives and created Monday business recaps -Conducted in-store public opinion research projects and presented analysis

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  Payless ShoeSource

  Jun 2016 - Feb 2017

  Assistant Buyer

  As an Assistant Buyer at Payless ShoeSource, I assisted in managing a $160M department in 3,700 stores throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. My primary responsibilities were reporting key performance metrics, proposing product stories to our marketing team, completing a monthly SWOT analysis, and reviewing our inventory buys with our Planning and Allocation team.

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  Flint Hills Resources

  Feb 2017 - Oct 2018

  Buyer

  As a Buyer for Flint Hills Resources (parent company- Koch Industries), I worked alongside category managers to understand current strategies and initiatives for 15 different chemical and MRO categories. I participated in vendor evaluation discussions to improve vendor performance and was responsible for solving any chemical delivery issues to our plants. While in this role I created a Microsoft PowerApp to streamline our chemicals on-call capability and created a BOT to reassign purchase orders to category managers based on selected criteria. Show less

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  INVISTA

  Sept 2018 - Sept 2019

  Global Commodity Manager

  As a Global Commodity Manager at INVISTA (parent company- Koch Industries), I managed the sourcing strategy for valves, pumps, piping, and other MRO categories. I partnered with our engineering teams, project managers and plant operations to define our strategies and asses suppliers for Koch culture alignment and capabilities. In this role I was involved in a project defining supplier strategic partnerships for INVISTA & Koch Industries with the vision of driving innovation for the Koch enterprise. Show less

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  Koch Industries

  Sept 2019 - now

  In my role as a recruiter with Koch Industries, I support our legal teams, environmental health & safety, family management roles (1888), aviation, executive protection/security, and our Market Based Management team. I own full cycle recruiting with these teams by partnering with hiring supervisors and business HR to develop hiring strategies, source and screen candidates and provide market insights. I have previously also supported procurement, marketing, accounting, and finance.

  • HR Business Partner

    Oct 2023 - now

  • Recruiter

    Sept 2019 - Oct 2023