Xin Zhao

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Senior Product Manager @ Gentec International
Richmond Hill, ON, CA
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Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, Canada
About Xin Zhao

I'm a Senior Product Manager with over 10 years of experience in Retail and Merchandising, including a strong focus on the Consumer Electronics industry for the past 3 years. Having specialized in the CPG retail sector for 8 years, I've sharpened my skills in market analysis, data-driven decision-making, product sourcing, and vendor management. My expertise in forecasting, planning, and analytics sets me apart from the competition. I excel at leading cross-functional teams and consistently aim to bridge gaps between internal and external stakeholders for collective success. • 8 years of intensive product developing management experience in 150k+ consumer products.• 10+ years of comprehensive data analytical, reporting and financial planning skills.• Master’s degree attained in both Supply Chain Management and Accounting.• Intensive working experience in MDM system (SRAI RDM), ERP applications (Microsoft Dynamic NAV, Syspro and IBM AS400), and POS systems.• Sense of urgency, comprehensive analytical and communication skills.• Committed team player, reliable, collaborate with diverse departments perfectly.• Fast learner, detail oriented, highly motivated and enthusiastic to solve problems.• Exceptional computer experience, 10-year advanced Excel skill, expert in MS Word, PowerPoint, and Access, knowledge in SQL and other database tools like Cognos, Power BI.AKA "Excel Master" and "Detail Detective".

Xin Zhao's Current Company Details
Gentec International

Gentec International

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Senior Product Manager
Richmond Hill, ON, CA
Xin Zhao Work Experience Details
  • Gentec International
    Senior Product Manager
    Gentec International
    Richmond Hill, On, Ca
  • Gentec International
    Senior Product Manager
    Gentec International Jan 2023 - Present
    Markham, Ontario, Canada
    • Executed comprehensive market analyses, resulting in successful camera battery product line launches and $404k in annual sales (42k units sold).• Revolutionized decision-making processes by incorporating advanced Cognos analytics and Excel SQL, boosting the PD team's reporting efficiency.• Attended trade shows to deepen industry knowledge and cultivate supplier relationships, directly contributing to market growth strategies.• Managed key brands, consistently achieving revenue and profit targets, and implemented strategies for market growth.• Proactively identified and launched innovative consumer electronics products, leading cross-functional teams from concept to market.• Skillfully managed supplier relationships, negotiated terms, and optimized pricing for cost savings.• Led product development from concept to market entry, ensuring product excellence.• Collaborated with diverse teams, conducted market analysis, and made informed product strategy decisions.
  • Gentec International
    Product Manager
    Gentec International May 2021 - Jan 2023
    Markham, On, Canada
    • Spearheaded the international giant brand like Sandisk, realizing a 19.4% revenue growth and surpassing profit targets by $320k in FY2023.• Orchestrated cross-functional team collaborations using Agile methodologies, enhancing product delivery.• Utilized data analytics to inform targeted product recommendations, resulting in a 133.94% sales revenue increase over 12 months.• Championed new business development initiatives and managed the entire product life cycle, effectively meeting customer requirements.• Manage all aspects of product maintenance and life cycle from onboarding to exit, including analysis of customer feedback, troubleshooting, and quality control.• Perform forecasting and maintain reporting to support vendor, customer and internal stakeholders.• Own inventory performance to achieve objectives in turns, aging and profitability.• Actively support new business development, including evaluation of new vendors and 3rd party products.• Support marketing activity by providing insights on key differentiators and message.• Provides substantial subject matter expertise to make strategic decisions. • Analyze market conditions & competitive influences, while determining a go-to-market vision that delivers unique value specific to customer demands. • Embrace evidence-based communication to vendor partners and company management.• Drive action through the organization to get products to market.
  • Pet Retail Brands
    Team Manager, Retail Master Data
    Pet Retail Brands May 2020 - May 2021
    Markham, Ontario, Canada
    • Supervised the management of the data tracker and ensuring the requests are completed within the SLA, completed urgent after-hour requests based on if needed.• Working and representing data management team in all integration meetings with cross functional teams to improve data flow accuracy and process efficiency.• Collaborated with IT to build tools and template for data team, optimized the number of team members from 12 to 5, saved company cost without sacrificing productivity.• Assisted data coordinators and other teams’ partners on complex data requests.• Created business templates for cross functional teams, reduced the communication time between originators and data coordinators, improved overall processing turnaround time by 35%, ensured data accuracy among multiple systems.• Ensured the data coordinators have all the training and information to perform their task, created SOPs/ instructions for the team in item, location data maintenance.
  • Pet Retail Brands
    Subject Matter Expert
    Pet Retail Brands Jun 2019 - May 2020
    Markham, Ontario, Canada
    Improved data accuracy through meticulous data management.Master of MDM (Symphony AI Master Data Management) system, ERP (Microsoft Dynamic, AS400), WMS integration.Implemented Cognos and other data analytics tools for evidence-based decision-making.
  • Pet Valu
    Associate Category Manager
    Pet Valu Oct 2016 - May 2020
    Markham, Ontario, Canada
    • Collaborated with 93 vendors on new products sourcing, launching, pricing negotiation, and promotion activities across US and Canada in 5 categories.• Worked closely with Category Manager to support and implement category strategies with overall company business goal, assortment planning and budget in mind.• Cooperated with Marketing & Category Manager to execute marketing activities.• Utilized tools to monitor YTD sales (Tableau, Power BI) and industry trends (Nielsen).• Supported CM in all levels of pricing within completed item life cycle, preparing cost change templates, store costs, retail pricing, promotional and clearance pricing.• Participated in designing and sourcing the development of Private Label products.• Completed store communications, flyer schematic files and seasonal pre-books.• Built an Excel based Pre-book template for better communication between stores and Operation Team, improved efficiency and reduced the user errors from 33% to 4%.• Assisted in planning and building planograms for 1,200 retail stores in 9 banners.
  • Pet Valu
    Buyer
    Pet Valu Apr 2015 - Oct 2016
    Markham, Ontario, Canada
    • Maintained the forecasting & replenishment functions for over 45 accounts in assigned vendor portfolio, including domestic and import vendors from overseas.• Analyzed historical data and trends to forecast the demand of import and domestic goods for over 1000 SKUs among 8 DCs, providing the best accurate forecast also avoiding any overstock procurement at the same time.• Continuously attained the best performance in pet supply team, achieved 96.99% for average YTD annually, has no shortage for all the promotional items for the last year.• Effectively supported the whole integration process 3 times during the year of 2015.
  • Freedom Lunch
    Co-Founder
    Freedom Lunch Apr 2013 - Mar 2015
    Markham, Ontario, Canada
    • Vendor selection, contract negotiation, inventory procurement, and order fulfillment.• Participated in corporation business decision making and operation management.• Optimised the work process by reducing half of the order processing time.• Perfectly handled multi-tasks including promotion, operation and dispatch process.• Boosted order fill rate up to 99.47% daily controlled buffer inventory within 10% by forecasting accurately.
  • University Of Windsor
    Supply Chain Consultant
    University Of Windsor 2012 - 2013
    401 Sunset Ave, Windsor
    • Worked as a chief consultant of a team optimises transportation routes for the maintenance department.• Interviewed employees and managers to understand the functions of transportation.• Collecting and analysing transportation data from drivers and database, identifying the transportation patterns.• Applied the supply chain management theory learnt from class to establish a new transportation system that meets the need of the department in a most effective way.• Inefficiency issue had been solved 75% after the implementation.

Xin Zhao Education Details

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Xin Zhao works for Gentec International

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Xin Zhao's current role is Senior Product Manager.

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Xin Zhao attended University Of Windsor, Macquarie University, Tianjin Polytechnic University.

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