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Florence Area, Italy

Market and Data Analyst, with expertise in use of Passport and Emma, Euromonitor's proprietary platform. As an In-Country Analyst, I provide strategic analysis and market intelligence information based on primary and secondary research data, that I use to generate estimates about growth of product categories such as Consumer Electronics and Appliances, Toys and Games, Connected Homes and Gardens, Home Care, Tissue and Hygiene. Final assessment includes both Quantitative and Qualitative data, specifically market sizes, major brand shares and 5-year forecast plans. Overtime I have also worked on Retailing, Luxury, Consumer Foodservice, Packaged Food, Beverage, Nutrition, Packaging, Beauty and Personal Care, Consumer Healthcare, Pet Care. I also support EMI's business development team for new customers' acquisition, or travel to local shows and exhibitions for presentations and trade interviews. http://www.euromonitor.com

Florence Area, Italy

Product and Supplier Procurement for Jewelry and Leather Products, Automotive, Lawn & Garden, Toys, Tv's, Optical, Homewares. In the seven years that I have worked for Walmart, I moved from being Merchandise Manager to Senior Merchandise Manager and eventually Divisional Merchandise Manager (DMM), in charge of the Merchandising Department. At the time, I supervised a team of 4 direct reports and 2 dotted line reports. In Walmart, I was responsible of sourcing and development of products through participation to major European exhibitions, supplier assessment, price negotiation, logistics, inventory monitoring and after-sales analysis, including Retail Link reporting (now Luminate), CPFR, Supplier Performance Scorecards, Inventory Monitoring and Forecast of replenishment products. Environment Sustainability programs managed: Project Gigaton, Thesis, CDP. Different import procedures, as well as packaging and labelling requirements were applied depending on the country where product was finally imported.

Florence Area, Italy

PREL was a sino-american company that worked as Exclusive Buying Agent for Walmart Stores Inc. I started as Assistant Merchandiser for Footwear, then was promoted to Food Merchandiser for the European hub. In this role, I was in charge of attending European most important shows and exhibitions to identify latest product developments and trends, as well as develop business relationships with suppliers meeting Walmart requirements in terms of factory capability and capacity, ethical standards and Corporate Social Responsibility. Following successful price negotiations, I followed up product development and labelling process, lab testing, on-time delivery and shipments.

United States Vs China

Full dive with geopolitical expert Dario Fabbri on most relevant topics at stake in competition between the two global super powers.

Emim, Executive Master In Management

Modules include: Supply Chain Planning and Optimisation, Economics, Strategy, Digital Transformation Governance&Agile Enterprise, Business.

Executive Course In Innovation & Design Management

Modules include Innovation & Design Leadership, Design Thinking for Business, Open and Collaborative Innovation, Technological Change.

Market Research

Euromonitor provides trainings to its associates on different business fields, including but not limited to Communication Skills.

Busyness Women (Business Mentoring For Female Entrepreneurship), Mentor

Activities and Societies: Business Development training aimed at supporting business entrepreneurship, including in-class and on-the-job.

Web Marketing & Social Media Marketing And Lean Training Map

Activities and Societies: Web Marketing, Create Value for your Customer through Lean ThinkingWeb Marketing training module was focused.

German Language & Culture

Activities and Societies: Deutsches Institut in Florenz is the local representative for Goethe InstitutB2 Zertifikat

Management & Operations

Activities and Societies: In Walmart I received several trainings related to Leadership and Motivation, Coaching and Feedback of the team.

Public Speaking

Activities and Societies: Training was based on Dale Carnegie's book "The Quick & Easy Way to Effective Speaking"I learnt how to convey.

Hotel & Travel Agency Management

Key subjects are Marketing, Psychology, Law and all other topics that will help in creating a unique experience for the Tourist Customer.

High School Diploma, Foreign Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics

Activities and Societies: i speak English - Excellent; German, French, Spanish - GoodIn a senior high school specializing in classical.