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Grimsby, On, Ca

North America

Accountable to lead the planning and execution of retail store expansion and renovation projects, with a focus on delivering high-quality and luxurious retail spaces. End-to-end project management - from budget and timeline management, project team assembly and vendor selection, to design development and construction processes.- Successfully delivered the final construction and retail fit out stages of a new store project in Montreal improving collaboration with internal stakeholders and external partners. - Led design coordination of new and improved store concept for a global pilot store in Vancouver with a focus on reimagining the Canada Goose guest experience and elevating the brand as leading luxury apparel player. - Developed new Design Brief package and template to support external architects and consultants in the early stages of new store projects- Coordinated design and construction processes with architects, designers, contractors, and vendors on several North American store refresh projects to ensure alignment with company brand standards and design guidelines.

Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Influenced internal stakeholders on how to bring the IKEA brand, range, and experience closer to the many Canadians by gathering insights to identify cities in Canada with most growth potential - all at lowest cost, with economy of scale and sustained profitability. Successfully delivered several new exciting small format stores connected to IKEA Canada’s penetration plans - 2 extra small Stores in Toronto, 4 Plan and Order Points in Toronto and Montreal, and 4 new Plan and Order Points set to open in 2024/25. Built strong, trusting relationships with country and global stakeholders, IKEA North American Real Estate cluster, Ingka Centres, and external Real Estate Brokers to effectively deliver retail projects on-time, on-budget and with high quality execution. Initiated and led the Ingka Expansion Process (Project Management Process) to plan, prepare, execute, and follow up on projects – successfully guiding project groups through the various stages. Led a large North American internal project group through the 2024-28 Omnichannel Market Development process to create a 5-year strategy for IKEA Canada, built to create extraordinary growth. Created a data and insights driven plan to roll out several new small format stores Canada over the next 5-years, with increases to market share, sales, and profitability as the goal.

Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Led country project group through briefing, planning and implementation of two global pilot store merchandising projects. Both projects created new, inspiring customer experiences - leading to higher happy customer scores, an increase in sales to prioritized product areas, and provided improved efficiencies for coworkers. Oversaw an internal store design process, and responsible for the creative direction process to inspire and challenge Visual Merchandisers in creating the best solutions, meant to drive sales to the most important products Strong collaboration and relationship with store, country, and global partners to create new and improved customer shopping experiences built for future growth. Accountable for briefing all commercial areas for IKEA Quebec City (30,000m2 - opened August 2018), check pointing rough/fine planning processes with the planning team to secure a strong retail foundation, and world class range presentation.

Burlington, Ontario, Canada

I gained over eighteen years of experience within Communication & Interior Design, at IKEA. Highly respected Store Steering Management member actively involved in planning and decision making in a three-hundred thousand square foot retail store. Led and managed a co-worker base of 16-20 people for over seven years that included Interior Designers, Visual Merchandisers and Graphic Designers. Inspired and challenged my team to collaborate with partners to create highly impactful in-store home furnishing solutions, inspiring displays, update space allocation and make strategic layout changes - to drive sales, new and repeat visits and higher average ticket to achieve market goals. Provided functional expertise, but also contributed on a strategic level exploiting all opportunities to drive store business performance - with several years showing double-digit market sales growth. Gained a deep understanding of how people live and want to live in their homes within the defined store trade area, transferred this knowledge to the rest of the store team and ensured these insights were executed in the home furnishing store solutions. Successfully led my team and the store team through the establishment of 4 Pick Up and Order Point units (small format stores) in the market.Successfully led two store Communication and Interior Design Teams simultaneously, for over 12 months - keeping internal co-worker satisfaction at a prominent level.Successful completion of various Leadership training modules- including IKEA Leadership Fundamentals, Situational Leadership, Change Management.Active Member of The IKEA Halifax Market Research Team - Part of a leadership group who travelled to Halifax, Nova Scotia to conduct in-home research to understand how people live. Capturing local insights into architectural features, peoples needs, wants and challenges was then translated into a store brief, guiding the store planners in creating the most relevant and inspiring store experiences.

Vaughan, Ontario, Canada

As an in-store Visual Merchandising & Activities Manager, I led a team of 3-5 Visual Merchandising and retail design co-workers to create relevant, inspiring, seasonally relevant and enticing range presentation solutions and displays that met the seasonal needs, tastes, wallet sizes, exceeding visitors expectations. Responsible for store layout, store commercial calendar and customer journey in the store, I worked with store partners to quickly act upon to exploit commercial opportunities and ensure the Visual Merchandising co-workers understand the impact of our actions on the financial result, and overall growth of the market.

Burlington, Ontario, Canada

As a visual merchandising co-worker, I was involved in planning and implementing impactful in-store projects in the IKEA Burlington store and across the GTA ranging from small product area re-merchandising solutions, to planning and implementing full departments for a number of Canadian and global new store build ups. Used visual merchandising competence to strengthen the uniqueness of the IKEA identity in range presentation solutions. -Worked with store layout, range presentation and vitality to grow sales, increase repeat visitation and conversion. -Secured high quality, simplicity, efficiency and cost consciousness in planning and implementing all range presentation solutions by applying national directions and using global tools, proven solutions and best practices

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