Bike

Mountain biking

Snowboarding

Offroad

Managed the development and sales of Diadora, Nakamura, and Capix bicycles for North
America. Accountable portfolio exceeding 15M achieved retail dollars.

• Collaborate with merchandise teams to listen to and understand complex business needs,
preparing for planning assortments that align to organization's seasonal merchandise strategies and objectives.

• Managed and directed concept and design of product lines, including graphic direction, color
selection, specifications, components, and materials for developing complete lines of bicycles and accessories under Diadora, Capix, and Nakamura brands for Sport Chek and Sports Experts
banners.

• Ensured planning and execution of assortments met Initial Markup (IMU) and Gross Margin
(GM) targets.

• Worked with Quality Management teams, both within Canada and China to plan and execute
on Quality Management Plan (QMP) and Acceptable Quality Limits (AQL) to ensure quality and timely delivery of goods.

• Worked cross-functionally with merchandise, sourcing, design, logistics, order processing,
quality management, and fulfilment teams, implementing planning strategies with suppliers that
ensured accuracy and quality products along with timely shipments of inventory that hit planned
order deadlines.
• Travelled overseas to work directly with factories and suppliers developing and reviewing
prototypes to ensure products are GTM ready by strict deadlines.

• Managed all aspects of price negotiations with suppliers, leveraging the economies of scale,
and strategic application of components and materials to maximize ROI.

• Assembled paginations to pass off to Design to be created into catalogues for upcoming
product lines.

• Led sales meetings with the Merchants for upcoming bookings.

• Prepared and presented Product Knowledge presentations to store sales staff.

PRODUCT MANAGER

Contributed to the development of upstream Assortment plans by leveraging analytics -
collaborating with business partners to identify replenishment styles, prioritize key categories and styles, and define seasonal inventory requirements.

• Sourced inventory from suppliers to execute fulfillment plans by developing inventory
strategies; validating and implementing new item forecasts; calibrate parameters to determine
appropriate inventory levels; validating and approving orders to DC's that will satisfy store
demand; identifying and addressing exceptions; and coordinating the resolution of routine
issues.

• Allocated inventory executing deployment plans; validating and implementing new item
forecasts; calibrating parameters to determine appropriate inventory levels; validated and approved allocations to stores that satisfied consumer demand; identified and addressed
exceptions and coordinated the resolution of routine issues.

• Optimized supply chain execution by selecting and utilizing delivery channels and processes
that are best suited to achieve sales, in-stock levels, and efficiency while considering capacity
constraints.

• Provided and supported the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders.

FULFILMENT PLANNER

• Generated and analyzed retail Point of Sale (POS) and GM reports.

• Analyzed sales data to assist Buyers in development of appropriate assortment plans.

• Determined trends in product sell-through and suggested price markdowns accordingly.

• Entered merchandise purchase orders into the Portfolio Merchandise Management (PMM)
inventory management and procurement software.


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• Established and maintained a positive relationship with vendors.

• Consistently followed-up with suppliers to ensure merchandise arrived by deadlines and in accordance with purchase order dates.

• Liaised with suppliers, warehouses, and stores about discrepancies on delivered merchandise.

• Created store minimum and maximum parameters and managed replenishment to these set
specifications. Adjusted parameters based on each individual store's performance.

• Assisted Buyers in selecting products for advertising features.

• Proofed and approved advertising content.

• Ensured stores received appropriate inventory levels of strategically advertised product based
on their financial comp targets.

PURCHASING ANALYST

• Supported the Forzani Group exclusively and its retail stores with sales and after sales service.

• Liaised customer merchandise teams, and retail store leads with Ironhorse Bicycles head office
in Long Island.

KEY ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVE

Supported the business requirements through inventory management, size curve forecasting,
and apparel bookings.

• Provided customer service and sales

• Performed service and maintenance on customer bikes

BUYER/SERVICE MANAGER

Performed service and maintenance on customer equipment including bikes, skis/snowboards
and skates.

• Managed service shop supplies inventory ensuring we a surplus of necessary supplies.

• Managed and booked all special orders.

• Maintained all service shop machines including Wintersteiger tuning machines.

SERVICE SHOP MANAGER

Performed service and maintenance on customer bikes. Assembled store bikes to be displayed
on sales floor.


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MECHANIC

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