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Ontario, Canada

• Achieved over 70 projects with a net return of 6M in new and existing business within the European and Americas market.
• Project management and development of product databases, planograms and insights for the European and Americas market.
• Management of all software implementation, education on insights and projects associated with Space Planning and analytics.
• Analysis of current market trends and implementation of insights into the projects for the customer base, both… Show more
• Analysis of current market trends and implementation of insights into the projects for the customer base, both internal and external.
• Financial forecasting to implement changes improving category health and viability.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Project management of over 50 projects regarding product implementation in stores for grocery, electronics, hardlines and HABA.
• Implementation of measures and metrics with the micro group on goals and objectives for each project covering all areas of the Walmart business.
• Management and mentoring of a small group of 2 team members during a stretch assignment to onboard and implement adoption of new financial and reporting techniques.
• Analysis of past category trends and the… Show more
• Analysis of past category trends and the impact on change to assortment, space and brand to the overall categories.
• Development of some of the earliest reporting, worked with the clustering team on how to communicate and convey changes needed to the projects when managed by vendors.

Vaughan, Ontario, Canada

• Financial forecasting for both Wholesale and Retail for a large portfolio of 60,000 Harley-Davidson parts and accessories across Canada.
• Product Management for new 300 parts 2 times per year with implementation of all key products to each of the 65 dealers across Canada.
• Management of all financial reporting and performance on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis with level setting avenues of focus based on the results.
• Analysis of market trends and product opportunities… Show more
• Analysis of market trends and product opportunities within the motorcycling industry,
• Development and Implementation of Parts and Accessories marketing campaigns, social media and management of all products communicated in market to Harley-Davidson customers.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Comprehensive Investigation into various aspects of financial performance with clients such as Loblaw’s, Sobeys and Wal-Mart.
• Analysis and Reporting on the category landscape utilizing Nielsen’s, Precima (Top Shelf), Retail link, Costco reporting, and Feature Vision to provide weekly and monthly financial updates to the senior executive team.
• Development and Implementation of best in class planograms from a fair share of market perspective along with advising on consumer shopping… Show more
• Development and Implementation of best in class planograms from a fair share of market perspective along with advising on consumer shopping behavior and customer shopping trends.
• Development of relationships with customers to ensure fair share of distribution and develop a secondary validation for the category captains.
• Analysis and Communication of critical financial changes within the company’s portfolio and provide suggestions on programs to assist in a positive financial outcome.

Mississauga

• Management of financial goals and objectives with both the account and corporation to grow the business.
• Analysis of the category and store performance using retail link to determine productivity and efficiencies within the business
• Development and Implementation of both internal and external relationships to ensure an open line of communication between all parties.
• Maintained flow of goods utilizing replenishment and planning to ensure optimal inventory to sales. Management… Show more
• Maintained flow of goods utilizing replenishment and planning to ensure optimal inventory to sales. Management of the entire programs flow of goods on a weekly basis to maintain budgets and sales expectations.
• Analysis and Communication of changes within the monthly budget, financial expectations, timelines and co-ordinate all key stake holders grow and maintain business momentum. Show less

• Audit of the HABA category performance and make strategic decisions to improve the overall performance on a 2000 sku base impacting 1000 stores across Canada.
• Management and implementation of strategic plans and assortments including advertising to ensure market share and net gain sales on both banners across Canada.
• Develop and maintain vendor relationships to foster a strong advertising program and a base business that meets financial thresholds.
• Leadership and Mentoring of… Show more
• Leadership and Mentoring of individuals that work with the team to help them achieve their career goals and aspirations, succession planning and development of talent.
• Provide insights as to how to increase the overall production of the planograms at stores as well as work with key vendors to convey current trend and shopping research is translated to the store.

Brampton

• Manage various planogram releases for the year within a 10 to 17 week process.
• Evaluate share of shelf, market share and Loblaw’s sales with the category team to ensure a productive planogram is presented at store level.
• Provide insights as to how to increase the overall production of the planograms at stores as well as work with key vendors to convey current trend and shopping research is translated to the presentation at store.
• Achieve category business objectives of… Show more
• Achieve category business objectives of increasing key categories to a specified sales increase by year and quarter with the development of the planograms.
• Maintain project momentum to ensure delivery dates and that all key milestones are met to assist supply chain, vendors and stores so that the planogram is set correctly with all content in the time that the project is.

• Estimate current methodology and planogram process to develop new business mandates to assist the customer with defining a new process for managing the delivery of planograms to stores.
• Develop a highly effective matrix to measure work load, manpower hours and current processes to determine the need for proper allocation of resources.
• Analyze assortment to support strategic and tactical goals of category management teams and insight as to what the market is trending towards.
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• Prepare fact based analytics including space-to-sales, fair share, days of supply, stores not selling, score carding and post-analysis of execution for the Grocery and Drug department.
• Responsible for the analysis and optimization of the visual and financial viability of planograms during Business Line Reviews and other merchandising initiatives. Show less

• Evaluated daily and monthly sales reports, advising on program performance and identifying quick wins in program development.
• Achieved a 25% growth in the promoted programs from 2008 to 2009.
• Accountable for all commercial sales reporting, maintenance and growth of the commercial marketing programs and the development of future programs to grow a larger commercial customer base.
• Analyzed margin, gross profit, projected profits of future programs and business developments… Show more
• Analyzed margin, gross profit, projected profits of future programs and business developments utilizing Excel, historical data and market trends.
• Forecast all promoted programs for supply chain, uplift numbers year over year and maintain a budget based on initial forecasts for future loyalty programs.

• Designed and evaluated new product architecture utilizing pro-space, floor plans and the Category Managers vision for consumer buying patterns and purchases in a department store.
• Developed innovative merchandising strategies and design concepts utilizing new corporate initiatives and financial analysis.
• Achieved 100% accuracy rate for designed planograms containing fixtures products and P.O.P.
• Multiple planogram creation for existing and new projects. Maintained and… Show more
• Multiple planogram creation for existing and new projects. Maintained and created 4-8 planograms at various stages under demanding timelines.
• Accountable for both the innovation team and kitchen place team's concepts and design changes based on the demands of marketing, category management and supply chain.

• Evaluated daily performance reports via Retail Link for the in stock positioning and sales for new and existing releases for 213 stores across Canada.
• Maintained a 27,000 SKU base in DVD, VHS, and CD's through the distribution of our vendor partners and evaluated the efficiency of delivery to market.
• Developed new marketing platforms through promotions and special events conveying new ideas on programs such as special buys and seasonal events.
• Initiated all communications… Show more
• Initiated all communications between stores, vendors, advertising and distribution. Single point of contact for all stores in regards to planogram execution, and new releases.
• Managed all vendor relations with the category manager to ensure competitive costs, program executions and vendor compliance with the vendor agreements. Show less

• Information Systems, Infrastructure, and Telecommunications
• Reduced the POS, Telxon and Lucient PBX system down time in 196 stores across Canada with both service and off sight troubleshooting.
• Developed new Cisco Switch maintenance through Bentonville Arkansas to evaluate all stores POS network communications switch to the IBM registers.
• Scheduled various rollouts such as PBX automated systems, time changes, and garden centre openings with all contractors, vendors and the… Show more Information Systems, Infrastructure, and Telecommunications
• Scheduled various rollouts such as PBX automated systems, time changes, and garden centre openings with all contractors, vendors and the project management teams.
• Identified cost efficient corrections of system errors at store level with guidance and troubleshooting techniques recovering over $1 million in down time and unnecessary service calls to the stores. Show less

Education record

Education record