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• Responsible for launch and lifecycle of A4, A5, RS5, Q5 families, as well as future battery electric vehicle offerings, representing over 50% of annual volume• As portfolio manager, led volume development scenarios and product requestso Supported long-term sales planning targets, including electrification milestones and regulatory emissions requirements• Successfully negotiated repositioning of Q5 SUV, supporting recovery to #1-selling model in segment• Simultaneously led complexity reduction and profit optimization tasks at Audi Canada, including:o Strategically standardizing, eliminating, and/or packaging model features where appropriate to improve inventory management without compromising customer valueo Identifying key areas to preserve customer choice, maintaining product differentiation, and driving profit through options saleso Developing and tailoring new editions to drive demand within the Canadian market, increasing per-unit revenue while maintaining volumeo Presenting business cases to management team, demonstrating financial benefit of profit-maximizing initiatives• Drove product improvement exploration with Audi AG colleagues, including product index benchmarking and pricing negotiation• Maintained cross-functional coordination with internal and external stakeholders to ensure success:o Initiated in-house creation of new product order guideo Prepared and delivered presentations to agencies to guide marketing strategyo Defined training and marketing guidelines, ensuring accuracy and relevance. o Served as product expert for dealer staff and customer care team to address inquiries and resolve issues promptlyo Specified product launch configurations to optimize dealer inventory against market demand

• Long-term planning: instrumental in development of 10-year volume forecast, incorporating macroeconomic developments, industry trends, product availability, and competitive positioning. Collaborated with product planning, logistics, and corporate sales team members to derive 5-year wholesale forecast by sales channel• Improved data management processes to expand scope, detail, and timeliness of ad-hoc reporting. Delivered monthly presentations with actionable insight on how to guide sales strategy by identifying opportunities in growing segments and under-utilized sales channels.o Automated Daily Pace Report, reducing time required by 80%. Linear regression analysis produces robust forecast, accounting for changes in sales pace due to current performance, seasonality, day of the week, and month lengtho Reduced delivery time of month-end competitive analysis to within 24 hours, improving upon previous 3-5 day turnaround. Result was faster response to critical strategic issues.• Developed and refined methodology for assigning dealer targets for upcoming calendar year, integrating historical performance, local market opportunities, and third-party industry forecasts

Mississauga, On

•Streamlined inventory and reduced holding cost by identifying unproductive materials through data analytics combined with information compiled from competing internal stakeholders. Avoided obsolete inventory expenses by exploring material salvage opportunities•Performed spend analysis focused on reducing procurement costs. Initiated action plan by providing specific recommendations to purchasing team and operations managers. Utilized historic pricing trends to devise supplier consolidation opportunities •Collaborated with Marketing team to create raw materials requirement forecast for next 18 months. Used projections to recommend specific cost mitigation measures on future component spending

Woodbridge, On

• Led design and project management of electrical test connectors for OEM and tier-one automotive manufacturers• Established library of flexible 3D models, reducing design time by 30% while improving product performance • Created innovative o-ring design automation to reduce design time by 90% and virtually eliminate human error; overwhelming success led to publishing a technical report to global company intranet

Master Of Business Administration

Specialization in strategy and process improvement

Bsc Eng, Mechanical Engineering

Graduated with Honours Granted Applied Science Entrance Scholarship, 2008