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Canada

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Built retail promotional and merchandising strategies and tactics to grow market share and deliver budget amidst wild swings in commodity pricing, global supply chain challenges and rapidly changing consumer behaviours.Developed and managed supplier business relationships, negotiating assortment, cost of goods, trade spend, marketing and promotional support to align retail category and supplier brand strategies. Collaborated cross-functionally with suppliers, marketing, and operations to bring new programs and innovation to market utilizing planograms, training materials, displays, signage, promotions, advertising, and sampling tactics.Performed quantitative analyses using POS and syndicated data sources, while monitoring industry, consumer and competitive trends to identify and quantify market opportunities and track performance to targets.

Mississauga Ontario

Identified cost savings opportunities by leveraging national scale and buying power of regional business units. Engaged regional stakeholders to gather alignment and buy-in to new national programs, managing project roll-out from start to finish.Negotiated supplier agreements, including volume rebates on branded programs, cost plus models on fresh commodities and Requests for Quotes (RFQs) of seasonal frozen commodities direct from source.

Mississauga, Ontario

Supported project management planning, execution and monitoring of the national roll out of an asset management system, supported by the setup of new maintenance solution centre.Identified business requirements for the implementation of asset management system and new spend analytics tools, creating workflows, training materials and benchmark reporting. Performed causal analyses on reported issues during user acceptance testing (UAT) to develop and implement a corrective action plan supporting the continuous improvement of new processes.

Mississauga On

Created all store communication materials, improved efficiency using templates, queries, and macros, and managed archival on SharePoint as the site administrator.

Master Of Science (Msc), Nutritional Sciences

Honours Bachelor Of Science (Hbsc), Nutritional Sciences, Human Biology