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Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

San Francisco, California

• Responsible for building and maintaining product assortments and buy plans that deliver against financial targets.• Proven track record of turning around declining businesses through increased productivity/ editing of assortments. Within 1 Year, I have turned around a double digit declining men’s business to double digit growth.• Partner closely with global product creation teams and influence the global assortment content via generation of seasonal product briefs and regular check-ins on business performance.• Lead assortment activation in-store by working with Brand Environment, Store Training, and Operations teams.• Drive business via effective Retail Rhythm with key business partners: Planning, Allocation, and Supply Chain.• Assess and analyze product performance and determine appropriate short, medium, and long term actions to optimize opportunities and minimize risk; draw overarching trend conclusions and convert to actions. Drive awareness of monitor and react through effective recapping.• Continuously assess and manage overall health of assigned categories.• Provide competitive analysis, including pricing and promotional strategies, and marketplace trends.• Project Manager for new store openings and local product assortments.

Toronto, Canada Area

•Regional Merchant – Accountable for assorting the entire Levi’s Men’s Wholesale Bottoms and Tops line across all distribution channels (2M units) within Canada.•Increased IGM% by 5.2% from 2014 to H2 2015. Responsible for driving volume and profitability for the Retailer, LS &Co., and ensuring brand strategies are met. Drove market share by +5 PTs in $ and units•Accountable for creating, updating and maintaining the integrity of the line plan and adapting global changes to product status.•Responsible for product and account segmentation.Project manager for successfully implementing pricing increases across all bottoms and tops, and ensuring that all cross functional teams were clear on their roles and responsibilities to ensure a seamless transition.•Responsible for seasonally selling of the assortment to Key Account buyers and Sales Reps.•Market segment expert; via market visits, trend media, competitive analysis; understanding competition, pricing, product, and consumer trends.

Toronto, Canada Area

Key contributor in building annual financial plans by account along with the support of Finance and Demand Planning Teams.Lead in building assigned product assortments based on the global product lines that are consistent with seasonal marketing strategies, and objectives that fulfill consumer expectations. Maximized volume and profitability for the Retailer, LSC, to ensure brand strategies were met.Proactively partnered with the U.S. / Global Stakeholders on an on-going basis – line development and updates, line direction, and lobbied for Canadian specific product needs.Accountable for creating, updating and maintaining the integrity of the line plan and adapting global changes to product status.Contributed to the preparation and approval of Financial Adopt and recommended pricing strategy to ensure financial targets were met.Drove initiation of sundry grids. Worked closely with Supply Planning to ensure execution on all product lines.Market segment expert; via market visits, trend media, competitive analysis; understanding competition, pricing, product, and consumer trends.Ensured on-floor presentation reflected brand strategies and clarity of offer to the consumer.

Toronto, Canada Area

Maximized attainment of Annual Business Plan for Dockers® Brand. Management of the monthly order files with proactive communication on delivery issues and opportunities both internally and externally. Set up and maintenance of each Seasonal Buy within Sears EIW system and the Bay’s R2008’ worksheets. Set up, support, and input into Assortment plans and communication of forecasted and final plans to Demand Planning. Partnered with Account Planner in delivering immediate action on sell-thru opportunities to maximize achievement of business plans, product sell thru, and store performance. Managed, adjusted, and monitored order flow, bulk and hard order conversion on a weekly/monthly basis. Key contact with External Sales Associates, and ensured full support to maximize sales and opportunities as well as provided any support required concerning product, availability, and immediate market needs. Key role in linking with Retailers, Sales, Demand Planning, Merchandising, and Marketing.

Development of all men’s and women’s Red Tab/Signature tops for the Canadian market.Downloading of collections to garment development specialists.Attended of all men’s and women’s fit sessions to provide direction on fit and styling revisions.Sourced of all men’s and women’s Red Tab & Signature tops, men's Dockers sweaters and knits.Managed all negotiations and communications pertaining to sourcing locations, FOB prices, FOB dates, trigger dates, fabric and production minimum’s, to ensure on time delivery, quality product, and problem resolution.Proactively developed and executed new fabric and finishes with contractor’s to ensure quality, aesthetics, and pricing were completed and negotiated for all new products.Development/advise/maintenance of fabric library.Preparation of packages for development to be sent to contractors (fabric, construction details, target FOB’s).Gave approval and ensured all fabrics and finish expectations were met.Approved and commented on men’s/women’s artwork strike-offs to contractors in a clear and concise manner.Ensured that pre-production and salesman samples received high priority within each production source were completed within timelines given to contractors based on brand requirements.Responsible for entering confirmed FOB costs into LSC databases.Worked closely with Merchandise Managers to ensure product requirements were met.

Toronto, Ontario

Financial analysis with other company directors to ensure profitability and maintenance of targeted margins.Performed the cost analysis between all styles and sizes within the different brands of clothing. Matched this with demand or standard orders. Ensured cost effectiveness.Responsible for the initiation, amendments and completion of all domestic and international purchase orders. Preparation of related retailing documents such as detailed price lists for all sales people, information sheets on availability and suggested possible target markets.Costing of styles for Major North American Retailers with regards to Direct Import potential buys. Ensured complete accuracy for the open to sell reports.

Overall management of all import shipments through air and ocean transit channels. Scheduled and coordinated deliveries.Communicated with overseas suppliers in regards to availability of stock, prices and negotiated volume discounts.Preparation and verification of all import documents to satisfy Canada Customs clearance regulations.Instructed and trained new employees on how to manage their own import commodities and what their responsibilities (i.e. customs regulations, customs clearance) as import coordinators entailed.Analyzed departmental procedures on a routine basis to ensure ongoing efficiency. Administrative Monetary Penalty System (AMPS) – Implementing and creating Import Department Manuals and Reference Guides, to ensure compliance with Canada Customs regulations and requirements.Educated internal departments within the company about AMPS compliance.Senior Import Traffic Coordinator (Overseas – Garments from the Orient).Implementation of Bonded Warehouse on premises.Administration of Letters of Credit / Collection / T/T Wire Transfers / Drafts.

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