FAZ GHANIE

**** ********* **** ***: 647-***-****

Mississauga, Ontario ac20r9@r.postjobfree.com

L5N 8N3

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a challenging and rewarding leadership role, primarily within the retail industry. I expect to leverage my professional experience in delivering entrepreneurial solutions while taking ownership of business results.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:

Replenishment Analyst NTD Apparel Canada: November 2016 – April 2017

Doing weekly, monthly and quarterly sales report, sales analysis and sales information requests for internal.

Pre and post tracking and analyzing special promotions as well as “benchmarking” various promotions to identify opportunities and gaps with the Sales Team.

Reviewing forecast information with internal stakeholders and Key Account Managers.

Analyzing to manage sales performance against corporate objectives, forecast, market development and trends.

Replenishment Analyst Fruit of the Loom Canada: December 2011 – October 2016

Fruit of the Loom Inc.: Headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky, operated a

growing network worldwide and employs more than 32,000 people.

Responsible for multi-million Dollar Budget. Develop timely analysis into business context and clearly articulate implication and recommendations in order for the management Team to be able to re-align strategy and make decisions accordingly.

Research and investigate store and warehouse out of stocks and implement corrective action

Monitor, create, and analyze day to day creation of replenishment and manual purchase orders using a variety of import and domestic replenishment & purchase order systems to effectively flow inventory to warehouses and stores for assigned departments optimizing in-stock and executing effective inventory flow adjusting to sales fluctuations and keeping within set inventory budgets.

Analyze past and current business and provide recommendation to Replenishment Manager and

merchandising on improvement opportunities.

Implement monthly forecast by item using historical data to determine the direction of future trend. Allocation of budget based on demand.

Maintain accurate seasonal profiles for the various categories.

Develop supporting materials for sales presentations, conducting analysis to produce insight into retail

performance.

Produce weekly and bi-weekly Sales Performance Reports that will assist the Sales Teams in tracking their results, identifying areas of opportunity, and risk.

Undertake “Special Projects” as requested by Senior Management to identify and achieve business and

profitability objectives

Identified fast selling items and work with Replenishment to develop and implement replenishment strategies.

Track and analyze account advertising plans and results to determine the impact on account forecasts.

Evaluating the impact advertising program has to retail sales objectives.

Replenishment Analyst Wal-Mart Canada Corporation: September 1988 - February 2011

Summarize Walmart weekly POS data from Scorecard and store performance indicator.

Monitor Inventory level by category and submit recommendations to maintain in-stock.

Identify items lower than 98.5% in-stock and action plan to correct inventory.

Weekly review of Fill rate and update WM on course of action to correct.

Responsible for 15–20 million budget merchandising and distribution to over 325 stores across Canada.

Prepared multi-million dollar purchasing budgets and generate reports on a monthly basis.

Distributed merchandise to all stores with the goal of maximizing sales and minimizing markdowns while

controlling the inventory to achieve improved inventory turnover.

Forecasted and monitor daily case flow to achieve consistency in merchandise flow throughout the stores.

Identified fast selling items and work with buyers to develop and implement replenishment strategies.

Provide pre-season and in-season analysis to meet corporate objective of increasing sales, markdown %,

receipt flow and weeks of stock.

Analyze store sales and inventory to ensure accuracy in split by DC’s and eliminate imbalances of inventory at DC as well as at store level.

Participated in line review for insights into seasonal buying plan and strategy.

Researched and investigate advertised merchandise not received in the warehouse in time for shipping.

Maintained entries of New Store budget in the system as well as shipping merchandise to the rack plan.

Analyzed inventory productivity and develop/execute action plan to resolve any issues.

Anticipated and plan exit strategy for slow selling and seasonal merchandise.

Merchandise Assistant at Wal-Mart Canada Corporation

Assisted buyer with developing merchandise strategy including cost reduction plan and floor plan for new

store and assisting with inventory and supply chain management.

Prepared items and Purchase order for creation, distribute and maintain when needed.

Coordinated all markdown and price changes for download.

Prepared and presented merchandise for commodity overview.

Developed excellent vendor partner relationship, acting as a primary point of contact for vendor and store,

dealing with supply chain, marketing and inventory concerns.

Maintained and collected analysis of all competitive advertising information and assisted with continual

marketing spreads.

Computer Skills:

Retail Link

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook)

Knowledge of Inventory Optimization, POS Replenishment and Retail Math.

Completed Leadership Foundation.

References:

Kelly Heshka Walmart Canada Corporation

Maria Garafelo Walmart Canada Corporation.

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