My client list includes Whole Foods Market, AARP (in partnership with Conlego), and Sally Beauty Holdings. I welcome the opportunity to expand my client base and would love to become part of your team in support of your strategic priorities!Some areas where I've created value for my clients include: ✥ Strategy Development & Implementation including leadership roles in several corporate transformation efforts✥ Delivering Operational Excellence✥ Process Development, Refinement and Implementation✥ Effective Change, Program and Project Management Leadership✥ Expense/Resource Analysis and Optimization

✥ Led strategic execution of the NXTGEN remodel/relocation/new store program, achieving consistent 2-4% comp growth through data-driven format innovation, space optimization, and enhanced visual merchandising to elevate customer experience.✥ Engineered end-to-end store reset process transformation, leveraging Blue Yonder system enhancements and industry best practices to boost operational efficiency.✥ Assembled and guided a team of 30+ functional experts, fostering a culture of collaboration and trust to integrate data-driven decision making that improved efficiency and morale.✥ Identified as a key cultural leader selected for the Confetti committee, fostering a culture that values collaboration, recognition, and continuous feedback.

✥ Led the NXTGEN format strategy and rollout, overseeing planning timelines, store layout, and space productivity analysis, driving strategic in-store transformation aligned with company growth goals.✥ Established our corporate visual merchandising team to implement our brand experience vision across all major resets, enhancing consistency and customer experience.✥ Developed 75+ new reset best practices, streamlining organization operations, driving efficiency improvements organization-wide, and decreasing store workload associated with category resets.✥ Restructured my Graphics Procurement team to improve our speed to market. Revamped end-to-end timelines, improved project execution, and decreased costs delivering under our annual budget.

✥ Reimplemented Blue Yonder, enabling advanced floor planning capabilities, and elevating data-led store layout decisions, enhancing merchandise presentation.✥ Improved team capacity by more than 35% shifting to a Center of Excellence for space management, aligning closely with merchandising to optimize the in-store experience.✥ Became a trusted advisor to my SLT peers and our ELT, sought out to facilitate strategic decisions due to my ability to collaborate seamlessly across all pyramids and create consensus where it didn't exist earlier.

✥ Architected a future store layout strategy for 4,000+ Sally Beauty and CosmoProf stores, aligning with corporate priorities to increase to sales and customer engagement.✥ Transformed category management practices, optimizing product assortment and visual merchandising strategies; secured approval from CEO, CMO, and EVP of Stores✥ Spearheaded implementation of JDA Demand & Fulfill system, supporting merchandising operations and setting the foundation for scalable category management.✥ Implemented strategic merchandising changes through floor plan and planogram updates, created plans for visual marketing support, and reset coordination in collaboration with store operations leadership team.

✥ Established a strategic partnership framework, identifying and prioritizing key partnerships, increasing AARP's financial position, and aligning with its mission.✥ Developed pilot strategies to expand collaborative partnerships to increase AARP's financial outcomes.✥ Conducted partnership analysis, deprioritizing 15 out of 50 existing partnerships, to optimize resource allocation and value alignment.✥ Led workshops unifying stakeholders to facilitate collaboration and collective decision-making.

✥ Steered comprehensive transformation of the merchandising organization, implementing best-in-class assortment presentations across 450 global stores, impacting the $17B business.✥ Unified the merchandising strategy at the corporate level transitioning to a category management model.✥ Delivered technology enhancements and architected new processes implementing new functions to optimize merchandising operations.✥ Outlined and established organizational structure of Merchandising Presentation department, clarified roles and responsibilities for future expansion of positions and functions.✥ Led successful pilot category implementation, negotiated contracts, and onboarded vendors to complete in-store resets in pilot stores in CA and CO. Evaluated vendors capabilities to expand beyond our pilots.

✥ Oversaw and synchronized a team of 70 across the U.S., Canada, and India, launching cost savings initiatives reducing Canada stores presentation payroll by 9% annually.✥ Instituted best practices and multiple technology enhancements that improved in-stocks and elevated merchandise presentation in stores.✥ Spearheaded technology upgrades, in collaboration with our PMO, balancing short-term needs with long-term solutions improving operational resilience.

✥ Oversaw a rapid rollout of 124 Canadian stores within a year, enhancing efficiency and creating cost-effectiveness in the store opening process.✥ Built a world class team of 30 in space planning to execute our first international expansion into Canada while overseeing the grocery remodel program in the U.S.✥ Delivered FY2013 grocery remodel program, reducing budget by an average of 15% per project and reduced remodel timelines by 33%.

✥ Selected by EVP to lead Indirect Procurement and In-Store Marketing Operations to develop solutions for clients that reduced late, missing, or inaccurate fixture and graphics orders.✥ Designed and implemented excess-materials pilot for 115 store U.S. store remodels saving $1.1M and $15K expense savings per each future store remodel, program later adopted for Target Canada.✥ Initiated research resulting in elimination of obsolete fixture orders saving $375K in capital expense.

✥ Led a team of 4 direct reports with a total team of 16 supporting Dry, Dairy and Frozen store categories.✥ Developed and deployed innovative in-store grocery prototype (PFresh) across 125 Super Target stores.

✥ Headed a team of 2 direct reports and a total team of 8 supporting Intimate Apparel, Hosiery and C9 Performance active wear categories.✥ Implemented new brand launches including C9 performance wear, Spanx shape wear, and Gilligan O'Malley intimate apparel with C9 becoming a $1B program annually.