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• Developed and implemented the women’s wholesale and retail product strategies ($110M) for Canada across all channels and multiple tiers including e-commerce and brick and mortar. Collaborated with global and regional.
• Curated successful channel assortment for Spring ’21. Collaborated with Regional Merchants, National Sales Team and planning partners. Researched past performance metrics and future thinking strategies per account to.
• Delivered dynamic presentations to the Canadian Team using virtual platforms. Created rapport through solid introduction, used street style inspiration photos to appeal to visual interest and kept it tight and on.

Brampton, Ontario, Canada

• Developed and executed merchandise strategies to deliver sales and gross margin goals through focused merchandise assortments, marketing, pricing strategies and financial plans. Categories of responsibility have been.
• 5 consecutive seasons of achieving sales, gross margin and turn over targets
• Negotiate regularly with vendors to maximize productivity and drive sales
• Strategy building pre-season, market trips, vendor relationship building and KPI management in-season
• High level of teamwork, very strong interpersonal skills, proven leader of marketing, online, planning and allocation teams to maximize productivity, sales and exposure
• Strong knowledge of the market through competitive shopping, vendor discussions and understanding the competitive landscape including partnership with fashion office and private brand teams

Toronto, Canada Area

Joined team during initial phase of start up and guided business unit to national launch of Target Canada. Area of responsibility included Boys sportswear, Denim and license in addition to women's Intimate apparel. Both roles included private label, national brand and license experience. Team lead on several strategic projects, managed cross functional.

Toronto, Canada Area

Responsible for national sales and account management of multiple major sportswear brands to all Canadian accounts Core responsibilities include monitoring/analyzing sales data at commodity and style level, reacting to business trends, managing production and operations teams and building financial proposals

Toronto, Canada Area

Responsible for building and executing multiple Olympic Brand programs, including Souvenir, Home and Hardlines

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Upon graduation I was hired to participate in the Executive Trainee program with Hudson's Bay including rotation through different roles within the organization accompanied by formal "classroom" training. The rotations included time as store managers at both The Bay and Zellers, as well time in the Buying office working with Buyers, Planners and Product.