Andrew Short

As the Business Manager for Samsung’s Digital Commerce team in Canada, I oversee a $31M USD business, driving growth and innovation across our e-commerce ecosystem. My role spans strategic planning and execution for our mobile experience product portfolio—including smartphones, tablets, wearables (watches and buds), and accessories.

I lead end-to-end digital marketing initiatives, managing a perf

As a Lead Demand Planning Analyst at Harman, I am responsible for forecasting and demand planning across multiple product categories within the consumer audio division. My role bridges data analytics, market intelligence, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure accurate demand signals and optimal inventory positioning across global markets.

I lead the monthly demand planning cycle, aligning

As the Sr. Retail Sales Planning Analyst, I led the strategic planning and execution of physical media (DVD) sales for major retail accounts. I played a key role in driving growth through data-driven promotional strategies, inventory optimization, and cross-functional collaboration with sales, marketing, and operations teams.

Key Contributions:

Spearheaded the Prime Day promotion strategy, doubl

• Managed the Wal-Market Canada sales business in revenue of $40.7M
• Collaborated with others to discuss new promotional opportunities.
• Improved promotional title selection process by developing ad hoc files based on proven US model and applied it to the Wal-Mart Canada business
• Worked closely with team members to deliver promotional opportunities, develop solutions and provide post promo ana

• Managed demand planning Christmas, Easter, and Wholesale Business Channel totaling approximately 150 -200 skus and $90MM in revenue
• Maintained appropriate inventory of supplies and products
• Identified product usage in business history and based minimum and maximum inventory levels on those needs
• Assessed, optimized and elevated operations to target current and expected demands
• Set meetin

Create annual budget for total independent grocery store chains for 2017 – 2018 fiscal year
Create, manage, and implement promotional calendar and pricing for independent grocery chains
• Understand the customer margin, sales, and volume growth needs and align them with Coca Cola budget assumptions
• Develop plans of action to adjust for market movement and sales trends
Negotiate and manage cont

• Develop annual budget for Coca Cola customers for the Full Service on Premise sales area in the amount of $240 mil
• Regularly provide sales team support by creating ad hoc reporting, trend analysis, and budgeting insight
• Forecast sales annual sales, develop financial targets, and gauge progress towards those targets
• Develop ad hoc reporting to monitor product, sales channel, and weekly sal

Assist the Buyer in implementing, administering and executing customer focused, profit minded strategies to maximize performance within the Kitchen ad Luggage categories.
• Communicate and manage vendor relationships and act as a key contact with field organization for assigned department.
• Coordinate all necessary information for the advertising and graphic department as it relates to assigned

• Develop financial store plans for cosmetic vendors including Mac, Bobbi Brown, Benefit, Laura Mercier, Philosophy, Erno Lazlo, Urban Decay, and others
• Create a financial plan in total of sales volume of 30 million dollars
• Develop planning strategies and reports in support of new and updated plans, programs and company initiatives
• Collect a variety of statistical data and prepare reports on

Partnered with the Belk Project Smart team to expedite allocation of delinquent purchase orders.
*Managed workload priorities across multiple merchant offices.

• Completed training on BSS systems including PLM, Oracle Allocation, APX, and Data Warehouse (Micro Strategy).

• Completed training on Private brands system PLM system and entered Hard Home and Christmas décor orders.
• Conducted market research and found new vendor to supply knives for Private Brand.

•Partner with Senior Managers to develop strategies on organizational development, merchandising, and increasing profitability.
•Conduct industry research and make recommendations on potential expansion.
•Manage proprietary database and reporting.
•Lead English learning initiatives across all Li & Fung campuses in China.

I was introduced to many ways to manage cross cultural teams on a corporate level.

•Managed programs to educate freshman level non-native speakers.
•Collaborated with other instructors to hold events to reinforce English lessons (i.e. game nights, book clubs, current events sessions).
•Accomplishments – 75% of my students passed C5 test comp compared to 60% in previous year.