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In my role as Senior Manager Retail Consulting at SAS Institute, I lead a team of Senior Industry Consulting professionals who each possess deep expertise in the application of SAS Retail Solutions to solve Retail business problems. The projects we focus on cover the spectrum of retail processes. I focus on the implementation of SAS Merchandise Planning and Analytics solutions for retailers worldwide (Merchandise and Assortment Planning, Visual Analytics, Demand Forecasting, Size and Pack Optimization, Allocation and Store Clustering). I also have a strong focus on delivering Merchandising Analytics.Merchandise Analytics: Application of predictive analytics to the merchandise planning process; projects have focused on integrating a demand forecast into the merchandise plan, using advanced statistical techniques to cluster stores for the assortment plan, incorporating insights into customer behavior into the assortment planning process.In my various leadership roles in the areas of business development, consulting and training, I have combined an in-depth understanding of the retail business with expertise in the application of advanced analytics and technology to address retail merchandising, and supply chain challenges. I have worked with retailers across several sectors (fashion apparel, grocery, specialty retail, department stores) in North America, Europe, and Latin America.As Senior Manager Retail Consulting at SAS Institute, • Lead a team of highly skilled retail business domain experts and technical consultants to complete implementation projects with retailers in The Americas and Europe.• Acted as Executive Sponsor for strategic projects • Build relationships with retail senior executives• Global business planning for SAS Consulting Services, Collaborated closely with SAS regional and country managers in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific

Delivered training to consultants and developers on retail planning software. Generated and developed training ,materials..