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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Category Manager - Audiosys / Computers

Sydney

Leading a small purchasing team across two National Commercial divisions (Winning Commercial & Appliances Online Commercial). This market consists of Multi Storey Construction & New Home Builds (Winning Commercial), Business to Business solutions (AOL Commercial) including Aged Care, Early Education, Points Redemption Economy and RefurbishmentsResponsible For:Trading Terms and Negotiations with key suppliersLong Range Forecasting with suppliers to meet both production runs and localised building schedulesOTBDevelopment of Core RangesProfitability ReportingStrategic Business PlansInventory Management and SOH reductions

Pennant Hills

Responsible for the Hand Tools and Garage Storage Category across a 63 Store Network. Category revenue of $41m across 2,500 Items. Through a series of both operational and strategic plans we were able to implement a series of merchandise relays that enhanced the customer shopping experience, establish price leadership in a highly competitive market for sought after brands, increase promotional funding by 30%, work towards a new On-Line Platform to open up greater sales channels, reduce inventory holding by $33m and increase category profitability by 362bps.

Pennant Hills

A role where I was the conduit between the Commercial Team & the Operational Team. A new level of merchandising standards and principles were created during this time which allowed for consistent execution of Promotional and Seasonal Events. A key stakeholder in the Catalogue and TV promotional programme that was developed from Product selection through to Tie Up In Store and ultimately how the Customer shopped the offer and the rest of our store.

Pennant Hills

Challenged with improving efficiencies and current Promotions and Pricing Process. Strategically engaged with Marketing and IT to look for and develop new ways to talk to our customers and communicate promotional offers. Developed new offers that were outside what our competitors were currently and had capacity to do. Worked with Commercial General Manger to develop first wave of pricing and rounding rules for the business

Pennant Hills

Masters was a $1b Home Improvement retailer across 63 stores Nationally.Internal move to Masters from the Supermarkets Division where I held a mix of analyst roles within the Fresh Food and Long Life business units. Responsible for setting up commercial finance arm of Masters. Training buyers in systems, suppliers in how to do business with Masters. Held a key role in the development of an Indented Product integration system, Opening Order Rebates, National supplier training programmes and development of the OBIEE reporting system.

Sydney, Australia

Business partner with Buying Teams whilst directly reporting into Finance. Throughout this role I worked in a number of business units Bakery, Deli, Seafood, Poultry, General Merchandise and GroceriesIn this role we were responsible for Budgeting, CRM Reporting, Short to Long Term forecasting, continued improvements in profitability, measuring the successful implementation of promotional drivers and headlining any seasonal events or drivers that would materially impact the business

Sydney, Australia

Picton

Picton