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Prahran, VIC, AU

Australia

South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• https://www.officechoice.com.auKey Responsibilities:
• Overseeing the planning and implementation of merchandising strategies.
• Monitoring and applying various merchandise and category management methods to increase productivity and profitability.
• Shaping team and company culture and working closely with all other departments.
• Developing annual and quarterly budgets and working to deliver to them with relevant stakeholders.
• Collaborating closely with the marketing department to brainstorm new projects, campaigns, and business ideas.

Melbourne, Australia

Peter Stevens Motorcycles along with Harley Heaven is a motorcycle dealer group and retailer employing more than 600 staff nationally. With seven multi-franchise Peter Stevens Motorcycle dealerships and six Harley-Heaven dealerships with retail stores it is a business that sells new and used bikes, motorcycle parts, helmets, riding gear, lifestyle brands.

Melbourne, Australia

Managed the “beer team” and had P&L responsibility for the beer category. The role involved creating and delivering the annual beer & cider strategies, product development, range development and maintenance, product launches, promotions and marketing with a great deal of competitor pricing analysis. Supplier management and joint buisness planning with key.

Auckland

Yoobee - "The Home of Apple" - is a dedicated Apple reseller and service agent, with a complimentary 3rd party range to Enhance, Connect & Protect iOS and Mac devices.The role of National Merchandise Manager was established in order to manage all Supplier relationships and control the 3rd party products sold via the retail network and.

• Paper Plus Group consists of approximately 165 Stores including Paper Plus, Take Note and Office Spot. It is one of the largest retailer by store numbers in New Zealand and has near the highest non grocery foot.
• Developing and implementing category strategies across the group
• Developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with store owners and suppliers to grow category sales
• Built a network of relationships across the group and supply channel in order to understand specific business unit strategic commercial imperatives
• Supplier performance management, maintained collaborative working relationships with suppliers aligned to business objectives and personal KPI’s
• Developed and provided detailed market analysis to understand category economics, business continuity and to develop total life cost sourcing strategies for the category

• ACL is a buying/marketing group for approximately 120 independently owned Appliance and Consumer Electronic stores across New Zealand. Member’s franchised brands include 100% (Your Electric Store), Appliance Spot and.
• Development of business objectives to meet or exceed the set purchasing budget of set categories
• To achieve volume buys, discounted product and exclusive opportunities
• Promotional item selection to ensure foot traffic and competitive offers in the market
• Champion and lead a group of independent appliance store owners into “new” category opportunities such as Information Technology products and Mobile phone categories
• Champion, train and lead members to actively promote “on account” or post pay mobile phone opportunities

• Key Responsibilities at Warehouse Stationery- Category Manager
• Developed the 2007 range for calendars and diaries, forecasting and ordering were done by product, by store at a very detailed level
• Improve financial performance to exceed sales budgetsIntroduce innovation and “new news” to categories in range and promotions
• Negotiate regular special buys or deals that increase volume sales
• Negotiations to improve trading terms
• Increase stock turns

New Zealand National Support Office

• Key Responsibilities at Repco
• Development of business objectives for product accountabilities to meet or exceed the set sales budget and gross profit budgets of set categories
• Responsible for ranging and sourcing product, brand and supplier selection
• Responsible for reviewing strategy and negotiating the above within company guidelines
• Management of pricing from cost to re-sale ensuring maximum return for the business
• Management of Gross Profit and percentage return of allocated areas

While at Griffins Foods Limited as part of the “Management Trainee” graduate program I had exposure to many parts of the business. The intention of the Griffins Management trainee program is to move people around as many different departments and roles within the company to get an understanding of the way Griffins Foods Limited do business as a whole on an.

Bachelor Of Technology, Food Technology

Papers For Graduate Diploma In Business Administration

o Marketing for Managers o Leadership & Organisations o Operations Management o Business Law & Economics

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