Responsible for the merchandise planning across three portfolios for Walmart Canada, successfully managing my time to give the necessary attention to each of the businesses’ needs.Develop shipment plans and seasonal budgets to achieve sales and profit objectives; reviewing monthly to capture any new opportunity and ensuring we have adequate inventory to support.Provides weekly sales performance reviews to all internal teams, including senior leadership, and retail accounts. Reviewing sales and inventory levels, providing comments on areas to help improve business performance.Responsible for planning and forecasting commodity assortments to ensure adequate inventory levels to support growth. Improving fill rate from 87% to 99% within the first six months in the role.Prepare and present post mortem data after each season for account meetings, highlighting opportunities to grow the business.Ongoing analysis of inventory at a store level, proposing manual orders to accounts to capture sales opportunities not met through their EDI system processing.

Responsible for managing and executing category line reviews and assortment updates for a $210-million portfolio. Working as a project manager to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams including replenishment, forecasting, quality assurance, branding, and product development, ensuring that all deadlines are met.Successfully providing weekly analysis on the business to senior leaders and cross-functional teams, including seasonal inventory management and sell-thru on key categories. Providing insights and recommendations where applicable to improve business performance effectively.Acting as a central point of contact for the business with internal cross-functional teams, Canadian Tire stores, Dealers, customers, and vendor partners.Assists the Category Business Manager with maintaining relationships and negotiations with over 70 vendors, including being responsible for new vendor setup and product introduction.

Responsible for managing a $200 million business, leading a team of 8 Allocation Replenishment Analysts. Ensuring that all weekly targets are being fulfilled and work is carried out efficiently by identifying any key strategies to execute to maximize sales.Works as a liaison between the Toronto and New York Sears Canada offices, directly communicating with the GMM with regards to weekly replenishment targets and purchase order updates.Regularly reviews in-store and warehouse inventory levels, along with all outstanding orders, minimizing DC inventory costs and making sure that all inbound orders flow through smoothly; successfully reduced DC costs by $2.5 million within the first 6 weeks in the role.

Responsible for all allocation and replenishment of merchandise within a $20 million shop, successfully maintaining inventory levels at 98.5% in-stock.Worked in collaboration with the buying, planning, marketing, and e-commerce teams to ensure sufficient inventory was available across all retail channels in time for promotions to maintain the omni-channel experience for customers, addressing any inventory concerns ahead of time.Regularly reviewed and analyzed forecasts and sales history of 2,200 SKUs, including the second best selling item in the company, making adjustments when needed, to ensure optimal and accurate replenishment orders. Addressing any major concerns or new trends to the cross-functional teams.Managed and maintained strong relationships with over 35 vendors, providing monthly updated forecasts and applicable marketing information to guarantee that inventory flow is maintained.

Responsible for the allocation and replenishment of denim and non-denim bottoms under the Stitches bannerWorked in collaboration with the visual, marketing and buying teams to implement shipping strategies to ensure the right product is in the right stores at the right time.Consistently ran reports to analyse size, colour, demographic and trend data in order to optimize sales and increase inventory turnover. This analysis contributed to a 20% increase in year-over-year sales during the commodity’s peak selling period.Created model stocks and monitored inventory levels to maximize sales, recommending markdowns where necessary. Conducted store visits to assess their performance against the company’s expectations with merchandising and promotions. Collected staff feedback on their local customer clientele and the products that best suit their customers. Shopped the competition and reported on product selection and promotions.

Prepared and distributed daily, weekly, and monthly reports, evaluating the performance of the company.Maintained organized filing systems for company sales and promotional materials.Conducted post-mortem reviews of store promotions with stores to receive feedback and assess opportunities going forward.Supported the preparation and launch of new company programs, including in assisting in organizing the Leader Launch conference for the launch of the Holt Icon Privileges store loyalty program.