John Rusin

Bakery Category Director @Calgary Co-op

Calgary, AB, CA

Resonsible for marketing and executing bakery programs in alignment with the business strategies and objective to improve customer service and company profitability.Establish and implement the Associatin\'s confidential marketing bakery, programs, new product offerings, procuremente and price file of bakery inventory to improve company profitability and customer service.Responsible for all bakery product categories to ensure proper selection, including the identification and introduction of new products; efficent distribution; proper shelving space allocations; competitive costing; managing retail pricing and effective promotional strategies.Execute weekly flyer planning, forecast, item selection and track performance managing sales and margin performance, front page, back page, inside and instore programs.Forecast, track, analyze total category and product volu,es. Evaluate industry wide trends and the competitive landscape to develop a sales growth for specific products, or family groups of products.Manage vendor relationships including selecting and negotiating with vendors to product products and services sought by customers, optimizing volume rebates and promotional funding support, and resolving site-level vendor issues.Develp and establish assocaition policies, procedures and \'Best Practices\' for standards in the bakery department for receiving, product inspections, storage of merchandise and merchandising of product.Conduct business analysis, make recommendations on marking plans and sales fundamentals, and implement specific business plan strategies and inititatives such as preparation of quarterly/annual category business reviews.Communicate and support retail operations teams members, including but not limited to program/key product lists, category specific merchandising, pricing, inventory management and store layouts and audits.

NAIT

Journeyman Baker, Commercial Baking