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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Responsible for leading the team that manages our Franchise store network throughout ANZ and the strategic additions to our retail store network

Sydney, Australia

• Held leadership responsibility for driving results and to oversee operations for the Optical segment of Luxottica Retail. The role is heavily focused on rebuilding the entire store operational strategy to deliver a.
• Delivered the vision, strategy, and initiatives throughout a network of 412 stores
• Embedded a new vision to reposition Luxottica as the premium store of choice
• Delivering 18/19 quarters of comp store growth
• Turned around over 49 stores from a collective of -11% negative to +8% growth
• Introduced a new Mystery Shopper program, with NPS up YoY for 5 years

Shanghai City, China

• Initially appointed as Senior Director, Product and Logistics for China and then transitioned to VP Product & Logistics. The role reported to the CEO, Greater China. on developing solutions that leverage the company’s.
• Directed and executed the product and logistics model for 215 stores.
• Underpinned Greater China achieve double-digit year-on-year growth
• Re-built the supply chain model to better align with the global vision
• Introduced new OTB management tools, assortment tools, and planning tools
• Reduced days of stock in hand by over 15% YoY

• The position of Group Merchandise Planning Manager was tasked with leading the successful development, execution, and communication of the merchandising sales, gross margin, and inventory plans for all-optical stores..
• Owned all levels of merchandising operations for 525 stores (ANZ).
• Led targets for sales, margins, inventory, pricing, and product life-cycle
• Introduced a new assortment management tool
• Reduced range assortments from 350 to 60
• Maintained risk assessment models used to determine buy levels

• The Merchandise Planning Manager is a strategic partner to the Regional Operations leadership in guiding, managing and developing the planning concepts for the Soft Goods section, a multi-billion dollar category. This.
• Formulated and led the seasonal and strategic plans
• Drove sales growth within the soft goods categories spanning 150 stores
• Led the business to make profitable merchandise decisions
• Established best practices of merchandise planning
• Grew the team from 3 to 31 FTEs