Experience

Coast Appliances

• Canada
• Retail
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Director of Merchandising

  • May 2023 - Present

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Role includes supporting and developing a team who builds Assortment, promotional activity, forecasts business outcome and maintains inventory health. Focus on evolving store merchandising experience/planogram construct while owning of Inventory Investment & Turn Rate.

• Director of Purchasing

  • Jan 2023 - May 2023

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Fostering strong and sustainable partnerships with our vendor community - Evolving process efficiency & benchmarking measures - Reducing Risk - Forecasting - Creating an open & collaborative team environment that thrives in change and enjoys the taste of victory … and having some fun while I’m at it! 🙌🏼



Best Buy Canada

• Canada
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Manager - Seller Success

  • May 2022 - Jan 2023

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Team Lead for Marketplace Account Managers

• Manager Seller Success - Vendor Partnership

  • Dec 2021 - Apr 2022

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Marketplace Seller Account Management Supporting our vendor communities to go D2C via Marketplace

• Category Leader

  • Jul 2018 - Dec 2021

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Small Appliances Business Strategy & Vendor Management

• Merchandise Manager

  • Sep 2015 - Jul 2018

  Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Computing Accessories

• General Manager

  • Mar 2015 - Sep 2015

  West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Facilitated rebranding journey from Future Shop to Best Buy.



Future Shop

• Canada
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Manager

  • Feb 2010 - Mar 2015

  Prince George, Richmond, West Vancouver B.C. Facilitate a memorable 'world class' experience for customers. Build customer loyalty and increase sales & profitability. Action planning, executing training/development programs and engaging department/operations managers and their associates are part of daily life. Finally, continual open-minded adaptation to changing customer needs and staying "ahead of the curve" with prompt execution of various company programs is my routine approach to creating a winning team culture.

• Operations Manager

  • Apr 2009 - Feb 2010

  Richmond, B.C. Responsibilities included oversight of day to day operations, driving results through two supervisors (shipping & customer service) and increasing profitability through strict management of a stores SG&A budgets.

• Sales Manager

  • Mar 2007 - Apr 2009

  Vancouver, Burnaby, West Vancouver B.C. Driving Sales, Coaching Sales Presentation, Motivating Teams, Sales Floor Management, Goal Setting. Coaching on the Fly, Recruiting.

• Merchandising Supervisor

  • Sep 2006 - Mar 2007

  West Vancouver, B.C. Shipping, receiving, inventory condition and visual merchandising in this role. Process, productivity and SOP driven.

• Product Expert

  • Apr 2004 - Sep 2006

  Nanaimo, B.C. Commission Sales