Steve Collette Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

With my experience in retails and consulting, I act as the bridge between sales and delivery, I partner with clients to solve complex business problems and provide best-in-class solution delivery. When engaged by a client, I deliver the right, quality solution efficiently and profitably. I also develop and manage processes, SOP's, and goals, with the end goal of driving scalability for the Logic delivery teams.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Drove the deployment of RELEX Space Management software across all North American clients. - Supported clients in bringing efficiency, process, structure and improved ROS to their retail spaces. - Hired, trained and supported a team of up to 12 SaaS consultants for all Space & Assortment projects. - Developed the foundation for unified deployments of Space Management, Floor Planning, Supply Chain, and other solutions in the RELEX suite.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

The job description is simple: "Change the way people shop the cereal aisle"Optimized use of Planogram Space added over 7 MILES of linear footage (at one major US retailer) for Post Consumer Brands, without adding a single additional bay.Patent holder for new merchandising system for bagged cereals. Placed over 1,000,000 systems across the US. Transformed the look of the bagged cereal set, and more importantly, drove change in consumer perception of bags. Simple before & after photos of one of the stores we converted.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Developed creative, modular display solution across multiple brands, multiple countries. Executed the development and implementation with external vendors and internal cross-functional teamsUsing strategic thinking and 360-degree input, created merchandising solutions and planogram standards for Audio, Headphone, Mass Storage, Optical Storage and Apple Accessory product lines.Co-created and implemented 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) booth/display space.Identified and managed multiple vendor relationships for: Permanent displays, Temporary displays and In-Store retail merchandising.

Key project member for development of Best Buy's new store concepts. Lead for driving change and performance in cross-functional Merchandising initiatives, across all categories. Focus has been on developing a consistent brand voice while retaining the strong vendor brand relationships.Created multiple processes to support new Retail and merchandising efforts. Led deployment of full-sized Best Buy mock store, used to test new ideas and support Customer feedback work.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Led Visual Merchandising and Deployment efforts during the opening of Best Buy in China, Mexico, Turkey & United Kingdom. Hired & developed members of the local Design & Merchandising teams. Developed localized merchandising strategies for all categories, in each country.Led team focused on developing and training simplified corporate processes to fit new, smaller, multi-unit business models.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Oversee a team of 30+ employees that plan, deploys and supports all printed materials for the 1,000 store Best Buy enterprise. Our team also supports all Goods Not For Resale (GNFR) deployment. This included all Fixtures and Electronic support parts.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Developed and adapted New Store Opening processOpened 450+ new storesPartnered, Trained & Mentored Best Buy Canada's NSO team.Developed Relocation and Remodel programs to leverage existing NSO support resourcesLet market entry into: Boston, New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Utah, New Orleans

Various District and Store retail management positions.