SUMMARY:

• Deep understanding of Retail and of the Business Processes in general Information gathering and Business Analysis, Business Operations and Control, Supply Chain Management, Forecasting, Strategic Planning, Inventory Management, Sales Support, Creation of reporting and decision support tools, Retail, Interaction and Problem solving with and at all organizational levels on both the Customer and inside the Company.
• Business Intelligence: Information System Implementation and Configuration, Project Management, Customer training and consulting on Information Systems Usage, Budgeting, Reporting and Business Best practices.
• Project Management Professional Certified: knowledgeable of the most current Project Management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall) and techniques.
• Information System Implementation Project Management; System Configuration; Customer training on System usage; Consulting services regarding the usage of the Reporting and Budgeting Modules and the Best Business Processes Practices.
• Proficient understanding of ERP Systems from a fully operational perspective
• Proficient usage of the existing Information Systems (MPS, ERP) (Oracle, Blue Cherry Cloud ERP and Web application, Chaindrive, Micro Strategy - BI, Visual, SAP) to create Advanced Analysis and Reporting Tools and optimize the Business processes.
• Proficient with Windows Office tools Excel, Access, Power Point, Word; Cognos Power Play; Nectari; Lotus Improv; Lotus Approach; Pro Space; Monarch; relational Data-Bases; SQL.
• Proficient usage of the websites as information sources (RetailLink) for Analysis and Business Management on the Major Retailers side.

PERSONAL SKILLS:

• Excellent Analysis and Synthesis skills, Strategic thinking, Business sense;
• Excellent spirit of innovation and problem solving abilities;
• Leadership and dynamism;
• Proven ability to build and motivate a competitive team;
• Communication and teamwork skills;
• Customer oriented;
• Adaptability to fast paced environments and able to multi-task;
• Self motivated, determined, results driven, committed to rigor, detail oriented; highly reliable and discrete;
• Fully bilingual

JOB HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project management /Business Analyst IT

Responsibilities:

• Oracle RMS Purchasing Module Implementation (with the corresponding integrations)
• Wholesale ERP Blue Cherry Cloud based Implementation (solution integrated with existing OraclePeoplesoft, PLM Systems), related Reporting
• Define Projects Requirements for Oracle ERP Modules and other integrated Systems;
• Analyze effort and timelines;
• Project Management: plan, organize, oversee and control all activities as part of assigned System or Modules Implementation Projects;
• Design Solution and oversee execution;
• System Configuration;
• Design Work Process;
• Design and monitor Testing scenarios and test cases execution;
• Manage deliverables;
• Participate in Project Steering Committees;
• Monitor progress and performance budgets;
• Maintain relationship with internal and external collaborators;
• Reporting solution design, building, oversee execution and testing (downloads, Microstrategy BI, BlueCherry)

Confidential

Project Management / Business Analytics Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Define Projects Requirements for Chaindrive ERP Solutions System, OTB, Stores Budgeting and Reporting Tools;
• Analyze effort and timelines;
• Project Management: plan, organize, oversee and control all activities as part of assigned System or Modules Implementation Projects;
• Participate in Project Steering Committees;
• Manage deliverables;
• Monitor progress and performance budgets;
• Maintain relationship with internal and external collaborators;
• System Configuration;
• Client hands on training and consulting on Chaindrive Information System usage and Business Processes best practices.

Confidential

Business and Retail Analyst/Inventory and Replenishment Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Sales, Inventory and Financial data (by store and sku) for major customers using downloads from their Web sites helping them to manage and optimize their inventories and replenishment processes by store/sku and maximize Business profitability.
• Proficiently managed Confidential inventory using their Retail Link system, allowing the Company to recover lost credibility, maintaining and potentially increasing the business volume with the American giant.
• Proficiently managed all other customers’ inventory using all information sources I worked directly with their IT and Buying personnel to have
• Participate in meetings and training sessions, interacting directly with the Buyers, Replenishment Managers and stores Departments Managers to discuss and address various situations and issues related to the business.
• Creating and maintaining Sales Budgets, Analysis of the results and follow-up with the Sales force and the Executive team
• Create the reports required at the EXECUTIVE LEVEL as the main decision support tool, on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, six months basis and also upon request.
• Propose necessary actions and present different scenarios in order to improve the processes and the profitability of the company’s activities
• Participate to the meetings (at executive and operational level) related to all these fields of analysis.
• Created a work system allowing the correlation between the internal and external (Customers’ information) data and, based on this, the Sales forecast creation and maintenance
• Worked with Visual (SQL based system) team on introducing automatic EDI import to the existing system;
• Worked with the Purchasing Dept on recommending purchases based on the forecasts and Sales trends; follow-ups
• Worked with Sales Reps on issuing competitive Business proposals based on past Historical data, past Modular performance and anticipated trends

Technical environment: Visual, WM and other Retailers replenishment and reporting systemsProSpace, Microsoft Office, Monarch

Confidential

Business and Retail Analyst/Inventory and Replenishment Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Sales, Inventory and Financial data (by store and sku) for major customers using downloads from their Web sites helping them to manage and optimize their inventories and replenishment processes by store/sku and maximize Business profitability.
• Proficiently managed Confidential inventory using their Retail Link system, allowing the Company to recover lost credibility, maintaining and potentially increasing the business volume with the American giant
• Proficiently managed all other customers’ inventory using all information sources I worked directly with their IT and Buying personnel to have
• Participate in meetings and training sessions, interacting directly with the Buyers, Replenishment Managers and stores Departments Managers to discuss and address various situations and issues related to the business.
• Creating and maintaining Sales Budgets, Analysis of the results and follow-up with the Sales force and the Executive team
• Create the reports required at the EXECUTIVE LEVEL as the main decision support tool, on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, six months basis and also upon request.
• Propose necessary actions and present different scenarios in order to improve the processes and the profitability of the company’s activities
• Participate to the meetings (at executive and operational level) related to all these fields of analysis.
• Created a work system allowing the correlation between the internal and external (Customers’ information) data and, based on this, the Sales forecast creation and maintenance
• Analyzing and solving issues regarding the Financial claims received from the Customers;
• Worked with the Purchasing Dept on recommending purchases based on the forecasts and Sales trends; follow-ups
• Worked with Sales Reps on issuing competitive Business proposals based on past Historical data, past Modular performance and anticipated trends

Technical environment: Visual, WM and other Retailers replenishment and reporting systemsMicrosoft Office, Monarch, Cognos

Confidential

Business Analysis and Assurance Director

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Sales, Inventory and Financial data (by store and sku) for major customers using downloads from their Web sites helping them to manage and optimize their inventories and replenishment processes and maximize Business profitability.
• Proficiently managed Confidential inventory using their Retail Link system, allowing the Company to recover lost credibility, maintaining and potentially increasing the business volume with the American giant
• Proficiently managed all other customers’ inventory using all information sources I worked directly with their IT and Buying personnel to have
• Participate in meetings and training sessions, interacting directly with the Buyers, Replenishment Managers and stores Departments Managers to discuss and address various situations and issues related to the business.
• Creating and maintaining Sales Budgets, Analysis of the results as well as the KPI and follow-up with the Sales force and the Executive team
• Create the reports required at the EXECUTIVE LEVEL as the main decision support tool, on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, six months basis and also upon request.
• Propose necessary actions and present different scenarios in order to improve the processes and the profitability of the company’s activities
• Participate to the meetings (at executive and operational level) related to all these fields of analysis.
• Created a work system allowing the correlation between the internal and external (Customers’ information) data and, based on this, the Sales forecast creation and maintenance
• Worked with IT on restructuring the existing system, enable it to provide the required data and reporting tools and start using the existing MPS and ERP capabilities
• Created and trained a competitive Analysis team to use the Forecasting and Analysis systems and methods I have put in place;
• Worked with the Purchasing Dept on recommending purchases based on the forecasts and Sales trends; follow-ups
• Worked with Sales Reps on issuing competitive Business proposals based on past Historical data, past Modular performance and anticipated trends

Technical environment: Nectari, WM and other Retailers replenishment and reporting systemsMicrosoft Office

Confidential

Inventory and replenishment Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Create and develop the system for Inventory and Sales activity analysis; the inventory and sales data is transferred from Unix into Power Play which I use further on, to create more sophisticated analysis with advanced Excel and Access tools
• Create all the Inventory status reports per customer and/or type of product and analyze stock levels evolution; make recommendations aiming to improve sales and inventory management costs
• Create the reporting tools to analyze and improve the warehouse activities flow
• Approve and manage Purchase orders

Technical environment: Richter, Cognos, Microsoft Office