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St. Catharines, On, Ca

Niagara On The Lake

Toronto, Canada Area

• Complete overhaul, redesign, and implementation of existing critical revenue model utilized across all business units• Tracking and reporting on pre-existing key metrics, as well as defining and forecasting new metrics with potential business value• Maintain and update the key models, forecasting CTFS' ~$6B portfolio• Extensive and sophisticated data analysis spanning across the CTFS account base, identifying potential risks and highlighting opportunities• Working alongside Sr. Analysts to drive new analytic platforms within the division, enhancing our abilities to manipulate and analyze large (220M+ row) datasets

St. Catharines, Ontario

• Teaching Assistant for OPER 4P26 (Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Undergraduate) and MBAB 5P73 (Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Masters).

Cambridge, Ontario

• Forecast, analyze, replenish and maintain product levels for Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic provinces • Reduced waste by 235% in the past year while managing over $100M worth of raw, highly perishable inventory• Reduced days on hand metric by 15% (inventory turnover) from 1.8 to 1.6, increasing turnover from a target of 121 times per year to 221 times. • Maintain a 95% service level while mitigating the loss of expiring product• Data management; creating new processes and keeping all relevant data updated to maximize efficiency• Vendor management; ensuring contract volume and flow pricing is met to ensure the highest possible margins for my category• Collaboration with transport, distribution and category teams to coordinate flow of goods• Extensive problem solving – conducting and identifying root cause analysis and reporting

St. Catharines, Ontario

• Analysis of information, present and past, of Supply Chain Risk, Ambiguity and Green Supply Chains. • This information has been implemented at Loblaw Companies Limited (mostly by my own volition) to reduce category staledate (waste) metric, as well as reduce the Days on Hand metric to ensure the freshest product reaches the customer.• Utilization of SPSS, Excel, Adobe InDesign.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Analytics

Completed with a specialization in Business Analytics. Awarded admission to Beta Gamma Sigma Honours Society upon graduation.

Bachelor’S Degree, Operations Management And Supply Chain Management

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Sports Administration