Ellen Osborne Email & Phone Number

Geneva, Illinois, United States

Go North CPG Consulting specializes in launching food startups in Canada quickly, without hassle or big expensive fees.

Remote

Sharing my own journey in the kitchen and I develop and create foods that are simple and healthy.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

-Opened a new 7,500 sq foot, two storey retail store in March 2021 in downtown Toronto. Created and executed the merchandising plan, including determining the product selection and planogram for over 6,500 SKUs in the grocery department. -Worked with the finance team to select, and implement a new point of sale solution (ECRS Catapult). Lead the grocery department implementation of the system, including architecture of the purchase ordering system, database management, and reporting analytics. -Co-lead the implementation of the e-commerce team, with a successful launching in April 2020. Continued to supervise the team and encouraged experimentation and build out new processes and workflow efficiencies to improve the customer experience. -Develop the Summerhill Market private label brand by working with various suppliers and internal teams. -Implement a vendor management system for over 240+ vendors, including developing supplier agreements, negotiating pricing, and partnerships. -Manage over 7,000 SKUs between four physical stores and an online store. Determine the grocery dry goods, dairy/chilled and frozen categories product selection by leveraging data and industry insights to grow category sales. -Create a streamlined program for grocery managers to place orders with suppliers and manage stock levels. Reduced out of stocks, and work proactively during rolling shortages due to COVID.-Oversee and develop teams across different departments, including managing the e-commerce team. -Built a new promotional planning program as a way to increase basket size and provide more resources for store managers. Experiment with different pricing strategies to grow category sales.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

-Wrote and managed weekly marketing newsletters to an audience of over 40,000 weekly subscribers.-Developed a marketing strategy to improve engagement, increase basket size, and conversions. -Developed branding by writing copy and managing photo shoots for social media.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

-Selected product mix for dry grocery, dairy and frozen goods based on market trends and sales. -Developed and executed promotions for the physical and online stores.-Placed orders for grocery, managed inventory and built relationships with suppliers.

Toronto, Canada Area

•Develop operational systems and workflows to ensure consistency and quality for clients and candidates across all platforms and global locations. •Identify and implement process improvement opportunities across the organization and work to improve efficiencies with a focus on recruiting, and retention. •Work across all client platforms and leverage data to increase turnaround times and reduce bottlenecks.

Toronto, Canada Area

oDeveloped a fermented food product that used local ingredients and sold it at select farmers markets. Sales totaled over $3k. oCreated a brand marketing plan for the products. Worked with a team of students to implement a production process and sales strategy. oCoordinated with local organizations and manufacturers to develop a biweekly production run that was economical and reliable for our business needs.

Seattle

-Responsible for logistical management of leadership and executive candidates for Amazon Web Services. -Designed and implemented a comprehensive onboarding program for new recruiting coordinators.-Created the AWS RC Core to help standardize processes, improve development opportunities and increase scheduling efficiency across all of AWS Recruiting, including global operations.

St. George

-Manage the daily schedule of crew members and aircrafts of over 1,200 daily flights-Manage reports and track data trends on a hourly basis -Work with maintenance and dispatch controllers to find solutions to operational challenges -Understand and interpret federal aviation regulations

Itasca, Illinois

-Perform administrative duties for the North American branch of a global Japanese trading company. -Respond to client questions and concerns-Assist clients and co workers with travel arrangements, invoices, and database management-Schedule meetings and update calendar for management-Provide professional and courteous experience for visitors including international clients

Bellingham, Washington Area

•Assist with managing a program with over 2,000 volunteer members. Including supervising two part time student interns.•Plan and coordinate large scale community events in partnership with local nonprofits. •Create recruitment & advertising materials using Microsoft Publisher along with open source desktop publishing programs for both online and print media. •Track and analyze program data using Excel.•Create, implement and lead environmental education programs with local schools.•Continually seek program improvements though feedback from member surveys.

Geneva, Illinois

-Work to restore native biodiversity to Illinois prairie lands-Use manual and chemical removal techniques to combat invasive plants-Educate and encourage the general public to plant native species

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Nutrition Sciences

Activities and Societies: Competitor in Canadian Institute of Food Science & Technology Product Development Student Competition Studies.

Bachelor'S Degree, Bio Cultural Anthropology

Activities and Societies: WWU Sailing Team

Education record