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Surrey, Bc, Ca

Projects:New POS System: Successfully integrated a cutting-edge Point of Sale (POS) system with a focus on enhancing warehouse data management and tracking of sales Market Expansion: Conducted in-depth analysis to identify strategic avenues for market expansion and the potential for entry into new markets.Responsibilities:• Manages and allocates resources effectively and efficiently to ensure store meets key performance indicators and profit and loss expectations.• Create effective succession, recruiting, hiring, and training plans, resulting in lower store turnover.• Promotes a high-performance culture by setting clear expectations, holding employees accountable, there by creating an effective and efficient work environment, and setting goals that focus the team on key drivers that impact success.• Take clear accountability for training and execution in-stores in all areas, including business operations, sales/customer service, and visual merchandising to ensure all employees are trained in Retail standards.• Produces results under a variety of situations/market conditions and overcomes barriers to the company's success in compliance with corporate guidelines.• Led a cross-functional team to successfully deploy the new POS system in Canada, meeting aggressive timelines.• Prepared and presented reports, dashboards, and insights to senior management to support informed decision-making.• Supported the development of budget and financial forecasts, contributing to cost control and budget adherence.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Projects:Managed over 20 stores with annual revenue of over $75mPricing Strategies: Analyzing the increment price points on certain products to optimize profit and competitiveness.Customer Insights: Developed a user acceptance testing (UAT) to collect customer feedback about the new price pointProduct Assortment Planning: Collaborated with merchandise team to identify the optimal product for each store.Key Accomplishments:• 15% reduction in shrink in two highest shrink stores• Inventory control in stores• 10% reduction in employee turnover Responsibilities:• Analyzed district sale results and trends to achieve and maximize sales.• Successfully opened four new stores and actively hired and trained new staff, which resulted in a significant 10% decrease in employee turnover.• Recruited, hired, trained, motivated, coached, and built a great team for the district.• Maintained high standard of merchandise placement, proper display techniques to create an inviting place to shop and maintain a good inventory mix.• Followed up to ensure corporate policies, memos and merchandise bulletins are enforced and completed in store.• Controlled payroll, cash control, control store audits, ensure price changes are completed, monitored inventory shrinkage, and communicated to the director of operations and head office as needed.• Performed daily, weekly, monthly audits to ensure shrink results are better.• Ensured proper training, development, and follow up of all Store Associates to include District Manager, Manager Trainees, Store Managers, Assistant Managers, and hourly Associates within their assigned stores.

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Projects:Store Performance Assessment: Conducted in-depth evaluations of individual store performance, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and making recommendations for improvements or potential closures.Sales and Inventory Analysis: Performed analysis of sales data and inventory metrics to fine-tune stock levels and product assortment for optimization.Responsibilities:• Motivated, trained, supervised, and coached store managers• Provided weekly feedback to the regional manager• Controlled effective labor and ensured employment standard are followed as per law and company standard.• Developed different strategies to expand customer traffic and increase profitability• Conducted of personnel performance appraisals for training needs and building career paths• Ensured all stores are in good condition and maintained visual merchandising standards across all locations.• Implemented a data-driven forecasting model, resulting in a 12% reduction in inventory carrying costs• Developed reports or created dashboards, providing financial-related information to make informed business decisions.Accomplishments:• 12% of reduction in inventory transfers to stores• Successful market research of store opening in Courtenay

Nigeria, Lagos

Projects:E-commerce Integration: Improved the online shopping experience through website optimization and seamless integration of digital and in-store operations.Data Analytics and Reporting: Developed data-driven reports for e-commerce to enable an effective marketing technique on the website and developed dashboards to track KPI and support decision-making processes.Responsibilities:• Monitored the profit and loss of each district and develop effective ways to balance the company’s projected and actual performance.• Coached district managers, store managers and other members and gave resources to each store employees to help inspire the success of each store.• Prioritized store performance issues to make certain that issues affecting profitability are addressed first.• Identified gaps between current state and desired future state operations.• Improved processes and procedures to achieve key performance metrics.• Assisted in developing training materials for internal staff on new products or services.• Conducted regular meetings with stakeholders to discuss sales performance and provide guidance on improvement tactics.

Post Graduate Degree, Global Business Management

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Accounting