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Oversee and direct Cornerstone’s administrative services. Organize daily operations and establish organizational goals, policies, procedures, and systems. Drive strategic initiatives across teams

Develop, lead and maintain communication and administrative policies, procedures and functions among project management team.Support project managers to execute and oversee elements of project management contracts.

Canton, MA

• Oversee store construction and opening process for US retail locations. Manage projects from site selection through post opening.
• Promoted after two years to Senior Manager, Construction.
• Develop capital expenditure budgets and financial reporting for projects ranging from $500,000 to $35 M.
• Monitor schedules and hold project partners accountable for on-time delivery of milestones.
• Recognized by senior leadership for outstanding partnership and collaboration on 5th… Show more Oversee store construction and opening process for US retail locations. Manage projects from site selection through post.
• Recognized by senior leadership for outstanding partnership and collaboration on 5th Avenue, NYC, a 44,000 square foot adidas flagship store. Show less

Canton, MA

• Managed store development process from real estate to opening. Oversaw store design, lease work letter review, budget tracking, construction document production and permitting..
• Implemented new store opening process that decreased opening time by 25%.
• Trained, developed and managed project coordinator.
• Publicly recognized for process improvement and collaboration efforts.
• Recognized as Employee of the Quarter for detailed and strategic project management.

• Managed maintenance for 250 US Reebok and Rockport locations. Negotiated maintenance contracts with national suppliers and contractors. Led store opening process from construction turnover to opening.
• Oversaw maintenance budget of $2 Million. Consistently delivered savings of 10% below budget.
• Created store opening, relocation, remodel and closing policies and procedures.
• Managed brand conversions including fixture removals, product conversion, and field coordination.

Monitor business plans; build product range and distribution strategies to enable markets to deliver these plans. Create Latin America apparel range to cover regional needs by providing trend data, sell-through results, product briefs and line plans focused on business needs.

Developed the appropriate product mix of apparel and accessories for the Latin America Markets. Guided all Apparel & Marketing managers in development of merchandising plans.

Communicated branded apparel operations information to international markets on a daily basis. Coordinated with the US product team to obtain the most accurate product information, to send to International Markets. Liaise with the US production team to place, obtain, and communicate information related to the branded apparel buys.