Wason Lin Email & Phone Number

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Brampton, Ontario

▪ Delivered merchandising financial results and forecasts at OTB meetings and advised Divisional Merchant/Planner of future performance by assessing Brand performance trends and developing the necessary action plans needed to ensure portfolio is tracking to targets/plan.▪ Collaborated with cross-functional merchandising partners to forecast and develop brand plans, markdowns, new product planning, allocation strategies, auto replenishment strategies and optimized ecommerce/store assortments.▪ Executed supply planning process by partnering with vendors and supply chain teams to maintain adequate inventory positions while communicating seasonal sales forecasts, upcoming marketing plans and new assortment load-in orders.▪ Managed and coached direct reports by providing direction on delivering objectives and fostering an environment that supports learning and personal development.

Toronto, Canada Area

▪ Supported a $500M+ Hardware & Home Environment portfolio by providing category-level demand forecasting and annual plan setting for all merchandising financials including: sales, shipments, margin, COGS, inventory and turns.▪ Chaired weekly integrated planning meetings with Associate VP, Category Business Managers and cross-functional Managers to highlight future business risks or opportunities and gain directional alignment on financial performance/projections.▪ Coordinated with cross-functional teams such as promotional marketing, consumer brands, supply chain replenishment and forecasting to drive success in delivering category plan targets by strategically aligning execution across all teams.▪ Advised Category Business Managers of opportunities and risks in their portfolios and recommended solutions through analysis such as: assortment optimization, line review planning, promo marketing strategy, pricing strategy and competitive analysis.▪ Achieved sales demand plans by working with Category Business Managers to develop strategic building blocks.

Toronto, Canada Area

▪ Created a brand simulation model to recommend an optimal SKU assortment and effective brand consolidation strategy that lead to $4.8M (+9%) sales growth and $6.9M (+34%) gain in margin for the business category.▪ Built, maintained and updated procurement tools, reports and databases using SQL and Access to facilitate fact-based vendor negotiations, leading to $99M in cost savings for 2016 and $65M cost savings for 2017.▪ Presented analysis on a cost reduction strategy with “long tail” vendors as potential cost saving opportunity to Associate VP. Analyzed trends and outliers to provide guidance and direction on opportunities.▪ Advised Procurement Managers of negotiation opportunities by performing analysis on three year trend of vendors with excessive cost increases, initiating a pursuit to negotiate cost decreases.

Toronto, Canada Area

▪ Lead IT change requests in machine logic by communicating business needs and requirements between business SMEs and IT consultants for Just-In-Time Kaizen, resulting in savings of $594K annually.▪ Presented historical SKU analysis and perspective to Production Control Manager resulting in implementation of metered spur strategy to effectively manage spikes in inbound shipments volume.▪ Analyzed velocity and movement data of SKUs to advise CI Manager and replenishment team on a re-slotting strategy to map out optimal SKU locations, resulting in 70-84% improvement to balanced aisle moves.▪ Applied Regression Analysis to create a model for determining manpower requirements based on relationship to product volume, warehouse picks and single store consolidation carts.

Toronto, Canada Area

▪ Coached and directed a multi-disciplinary team to eliminate coding issues. Successfully achieved a 98.3% reduction over a 6 month period by applying Lean Six Sigma 6M's methodology.▪ Launched process improvement strategy for a high-speed production line to educate production crew, improve efficiency and apply data-driven results to prevent defects.▪ Aligned scheduling and planning demands of high-profile brand launch initiatives by strategically managing resources and personnel between material planning, technical service and warehouse departments.