Cary Chaney Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston Area

In his role as Owner/Consultant, Cary is engaged in overseeing and managing consultancy services with regard to retail products. He along with his team is responsible for delivering guidance on communication plans and documents, assisting with presentation development, and startup organizations with business plans, strategy development and partner relationships. Most recently he worked as the CEO for Zipity.com wherein he was accountable for developing start up strategy, business plans, video shorts for use in social media and investment introductions, investment acquisition and presentation. Prior to this, he served as Acting CEO for Advance Corporate Wellness, Inc. and spearheaded strategy and business development including business plans, overseeing business and brokerage partnerships and managed contract agreements.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Within the capacity of Category Manager – Merchandising, Cary was responsible for managing sales of eight categories worth multibillions as well as driving the merchandising strategies for categories that supported business objectives. He supervised category management team; Assistant Category Manager, 2 On-Site Supplier Analysts and one Off-Site Inventory Specialist. Furthermore, he was involved in developing Category strategy plans, providing C-level presentations to review Category Annual plans for approval, and managed P&L budgets. In addition to supervising annual business reviews and planogram development, Cary led new business development activities; planned and managed all DSD activity and collaborated with financial forecast and logistics team to examine budget targets and accomplishmentsSignificant highlights of this role include:• Contributed to multibillion dollar category sales across various categories.• Led successful promotion and seasonal development initiatives for categories• Negotiated lucrative supplier contract agreements • Managed monthly off-shelf business of merchandising department and oversaw multi-million B2B and B2C business valued in millionsAlso, Cary developed category merchandising and pricing plans through the examination and inspection of both existing and potential products.

Woonsocket, Ri

Coordinated, analyzed and launched (with Divisional Merchandise Manager) Hispanic market merchandise and ad plans. He also researched and created new planograms and built new supplier relationships across all merchandising categories.

Assisted Managing categories of Batteries, Household Chemicals, Household Paper, As Seen On TV, Toys, Electronics, Cigarettes, Books and Magazines

As Merchandising Director, Cary was entrusted with the responsibility of managing sales budgets, marketing and promotional programs. He achieved phenomenal success in leading 20+ categories and generating sales in multimillion dollar figures. Furthermore, he led new and acquired retail site business development and strategy for nation's largest specialty pharmacy company including store model, merchandising strategy and architectural layout. His contributions also include implementing local business sales incentive programs and vendor coop programs and developing training programs to integrate pharmacy practice with alternative therapies.

Masters Of Applied Science

Bachelor Of Applied Science (Basc)