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Seattle, Wa, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Leveraging Nielsen assets to provide market insights, analysis, and guidance for the Amazon physical retail org.

New York, Ny, Us

On site at Amazon working with Amazon Fresh, Prime Now, and physical retail teams.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ca

Leads procurement and marketing activities for the Toys, Seasonal and Office categories for 45 retail locations under the Cost U Less, Alaska Commercial Company, and Island Fresh banners in remote markets in the South Pacific, Caribbean and Alaska.• Full P&L accountability on $10 million USD in revenue. Work involved developing and executing category, sourcing, and marketing strategies, inventory management and vendor management to achieve financial targets.• Negotiates vendor trade spend, achieving a 62% increase in 2018.• Builds monthly promotional plans to drive sales and total profit dollars.• Manages two Assistant Category Managers to assist with category development.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ca

Represented General Merchandise in corporate initiatives at The North West Company including the North Mart, Northern, Alaska Commercial Company, Cost U Less, and Rite Way retail banners. • Instrumental in the development of market-specific category strategies and multi-million dollar capex plans in 31 markets. Work involved performing market research, developing and testing financial models, coordinating work between multiple departments, and regularly presenting to executive audiences. • Oversaw a two year project to return and liquidate $10 million USD in unproductive merchandise, perform root cause analysis, and put new processes in place to correct the issues. Work involved the identification and transfer of the unproductive inventory as well as the leasing, improvement, and operation of a temporary retail location.• Project Manager, Business Lead and Subject Matter Expert on multiple IS projects making modifications to backend system to reflect changing business needs.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ca

Reporting to both the Category Manager for Beverage, Alcohol, and Tobacco and the Category Manager for Grocery Non-Food in Cost U Less, I executed all assortment, merchandising, display, advertising, distribution, procurement, and sales plans for stores located across six countries and territories.• Solely accountable for the forecasting, replenishment, order writing, and item maintenance of a $73 million portfolio of products across 64 domestic and international vendors.• Instrumental in the development and roll out of a company-wide marketing tool to track and maximize vendor trade spend leading to vendor trade spend tripling year over year across all categories of product.• Directly oversaw local buying in select foreign markets and developed tools with SQL and Excel VBA to give store managers in all foreign markets data on which to base buying decisions.• Leveraged market insights, competitive information, customer surveys and POS analysis to develop category insights and regularly presented these findings to operations, marketing, and procurement management.• Regularly identified and corrected supply chain and procurement inefficiencies to minimize freight costs and delays to market.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ca

Reporting to the Category Manager of Grocery for the Alaska Commercial Company, I executed all assortment, merchandising, display, advertising, distribution, procurement, and sales plans for the Grocery, Grocery Non-Food, Commercial Bakery, and Confection categories. • Managed vendor invoicing for all trade spend for both the Alaska Commercial Company and Cost U Less retail banners.• Placed purchase orders with vendors and resolved all shipping and invoicing discrepancies.• Setup all new vendors and items and performed regular review and maintenance to ensure accurate and up-to-date information was in the system.• Designed and developed multiple Visual Basic Applications in Microsoft Office to automate manual data entry, communication, and reporting tasks that freed up two days of work per week per employee in the Alaska Commercial Company procurement department.• Selected by the Vice President of Procurement and Marketing to perform an analysis on the pros and cons of moving our confection business from direct vendor relationships to a distributor.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Asian Studies

Certificate Of Mastery, Korean Language

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies