Business Analyst

Brian Abamelik

** **** ******, ******** ****, MA 02467

**************@*******.*** 617-***-****

Summary:

A highly experienced sales and marketing professional with comprehensive strategic planning and implementation skills seeking a position where these skills will be a great asset to a company.

Professional Experience:

Radlo Foods (Franchisee of Eggland’s Best $10 Million annual sales)

Category Business Analyst (July 2011 - Dec 2011) Watertown, MA

• Responsible for four plants that produces store brand eggs.

• Order eggs for various accounts including AHold, Hannaford, Market Basket, as well as independent accounts and distributors on a daily basis.

• Analyze Nielsen data of our products compared to the competitor of the accounts.

Davidson Specialty Food Co. Largest Specialty Food Distributor in New England

(Specialty and Ethnic Food Distributor $10 Million annual sales)

Stop & Shop Headquarters (AHold USA Retail)

Account Specialist (Feb 2007 - June 2011) Quincy, MA

• Responsible for Tradepoint, Movement Reports (Micro-Strategy), and Specialty and Ethnic planograms for AHold USA Retail.

• Managed over 10,000 Specialty and Ethnic products for AHold including Manischewitz, Bigelow Tea, Bauducco, and Roland.

• Use Micro-Strategy to create reports for Category Managers and Buyers so that they can make strategic business decisions on what to eliminate if they decide to add new products or see how a particular section is doing in a particular timeframe.

• Maintain constant stream of communication between Davidson Co. Account Manager and AHold Category Managers.

• Provide analysis of financial and movement data at both the account and market level to determine product success in an assigned category.

• Track and maintain YTD product/customer ad activity verses the competitor, customer/product sales trends, & product lift / sales projections.

• Use V-Lookup on Excel to analyze and compare data.

Computer Software Skills: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook), Lotus Notes, JDA (Planograms), DemandTec (Deal Sheets), Micro-Strategy (Data Analysis)

Education:

University of Connecticut Storrs, CT Bachelor of Arts in English, 2006

Language: Fluent in Russian

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