Kirk Emery Email & Phone Number

500 Lakeshore Blvd

• Owner of Capital Planning and strategy Supporting multiple lines of business including PC Financial Pavilions (Bank)(~200), The Mobile Shop (Multi Carrier Telecom)(~200) and ATM’s (~800)
• Collaborate cross functionally with key stakeholders from Finance, Design, Construction, Merchandising & Operations to execute annual $5M-10M capital investment in store builds
• Creating & Developing a predictive modeling to support location decision making. Partnering with industry leading vendors on location analysis while leveraging robust internal customer data.
• Manager the maintenance process for all supported assets. Includes solutioning ongoing issues, vendor negotiations and monitoring execution
• National store visits: Travel across Canada reviewing our distribution and physical assets within the bigger context of the grocery business. A vital tool for understanding what makes each location successful and how.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Create, develop and present store performance and strategy recommendations at regional workshops nationally. Requires a strong ability to work independently and collaboratively. Considerable organizational skills are.
• Manage and mentor 2 direct reports and influence change cross functional to achieve company objectives.
• Owner of cross-functional workgroup containing corporate real estate, legal, financial, regional directors, design & constructions). Manages the approvals process driving the branded retail store build plan. Ensures.
• Manage the end to end process of planning; securing funding, executing the current and long term branded store build strategy. Present regular updates on progress and performance summaries to senior level executives..
• Oversee the evolution and output of a predictive model, forecasting & analyzes location intelligence. Team is best known for high quality, fast turn around results.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Key areas of focus and expertise
• Manage vendor relationship
• Align internal partners to achieve results
• Keep team focused on key tasks and initiatives
• Achieving high integrity & quality results enabling the department to be a high value commodity withing the organization

• Created sales forecast reports and made investment recommendations that drove 2 million dollars in real estate spending and store openings. This resulted in over 50 new stores annually with average sales per store of 4.
• Developed key market strategy recommendations for urban markets, generating 10-15 additional retail opportunities above and beyond the existing market plan. Worth 60-90 million dollars at maturity in 6-8 years..
• Presented sales forecasts and demographic summaries to Executive and Senior Vice-Presidents, Real Estate Directors and the Legal department during monthly Real Estate Committee meetings. As a trusted advisor.
• Modified and enhanced sales forecasting model. Enabled a time savings of 40% by reducing user input and increasing functionality through automation and development of macros.
• Established solid relationships with Real Estate Directors, Lease Administrators, Legal, Design/Construction and Store Concept teams as well as external vendors. Developed strong working partnerships, increased trust.
• Supervised, trained and developed the co-op team, ensuring projects were completed on time and facilitated a highly efficient and balanced working environment.

• Organized, prepared, and presented timely and accurate market study reports at departmental meetings. Generated 2-3 proposals a month by visiting potential sites and surrounding trade area competition enabling a more.
• Developed a market strategy for new urban market stores. Conducted detailed observation of pedestrian traffic flow and acquired daytime population data from outside vendors. Made recommendations for 8-12 new urban.
• Contributed to the analysis of potential acquisitions in the Canadian marketplace. Worked under tight deadlines to prepare market overview presentations that aided in the evaluation process while in discussions with.
• Created monthly sales variance reports reflecting new store openings and changes in the total sales area nationally. Report was integral in gauging competitive advantage.