Paul Washington

A well-trained Master Data Analyst with over fifteen years of progressive employment experience augmented by a Bachelor of Commerce degree majoring in Marketing, a Business Administration diploma with Honours, and a Business Management diploma with Honours. Skilled in analyzing and understanding the impact of product pricing and selection, new product introductions, regulatory changes and market changes and trends in overall product demand. Strong experience in vendor relations, supply chain, sales, forecasting, and competitive pricing and promotions together with the ability to maintain consistent pricing approach across a large multi-location organization.

Proven ability to function productively within a highly regulated environment with established protocol and multiple level of authorization; recognized by the Director with an "Above and Beyond" certificate. An excellent team player with rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions as well as the creativity to generate new and unique ideas. Possess a comprehensive knowledge of the functions of business resources and efficiency in getting things done often orchestrating multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal.

Highly resourceful and results-oriented with the desire to continue to learn and develop; and assist in positive change.

Master Data Analyst - Metrie Canada - Canada/USA

(2021-01)

Support business development and customer satisfaction by working with various Canadian and USA teams to drive multiple projects while updating and maintaining the Simple MDG/D4M software and SAP to exploit massive amounts of digital data in furthering company goals and objectives. Review and verify the accuracy and completeness of incoming requests from different business units before uploading into SAP by using Simple MDG/D4M software while ensuring data quality and integrity. Apply expertise in obtaining, analyzing, and manipulating data to identify insights and data patterns that are beneficial to the company's decision-making process.

Craft and maintain data requirements, transformations, and system documentation as needed. Use (Simple Master Data Goverance) Simple MDG and (Decision for Metrie) D4M to review all information such as descriptions, material pricing group, product hierarchy, weights, characteristics and alternate units of measure before setting up an item. Provide leadership and training to new employees on the setup and use of new items data in Simple MDG and D4M and manually through SAP; recognize their potential and provide them with support and encouragement t

• Improved operational efficiency as the main team contact for new exterior doors project; loaded over 500 exterior doors across Canada and collaborated with the sales team on descriptions, product hierarchies, characteristics and values in the classification process
• Achieved the deadline of loading all exterior doors before Jan 2024; exterior door vendors included Masonite and Novatech
• Successfully completed the project of loading over 300 interior door slabs for both the regions Denver and Arizona working closely with all stakeholders on the team; also worked with the Arizona sales team to update a number of existing door slabs descriptions for a new customer, Jeld-Wen and with the Product Management team on setting up a new Product line Patio Doors complete with descriptions, product hierarchies, characteristics and values in the classification
• Assumed the role as the UPC Coordinator upon the retirement of the Manager; applied and verified all UPCs, I205s and UPCs for pallets, and loaded UPCs for all retail materials across Canada and USA and continued to update UPC subscription with GS1 for Canada and USA
• Original contact, accountable for loading all retail items onto their respected platforms for retailers such as: Lowe's Canada, Lowe's US, Rona Canada and Home Depot; the systems included: Syndigo for both Lowe's Canada and Lowe's US, Item Management Application (IMA) for Lowe's US, Commerce Hub for Rona and Supplier Hub for Home Depot
• Contributed to process improvement by streamlining and enhancing the item setup process for the retail teams by developing an item setup template
• Verified system as one of the S4 Hanna testers for materials in SAP; monitored progress and reported to the group on all success, areas for improvement and lessons learned
• Developed and presented IT's mission and purpose to the entire group including the Director of IT

Retail Data Analyst - Metrie Canada - Canada/USA

(2020-01 - 2021-01)

Worked cross-functionally with business units & other stakeholders on projects to deliver innovative solutions to business objectives while maintaining the Data Management System (Syndigo) for Canadian and USA operations.

Handled Retail Item

Setup in 3rd party Data Management System (Syndigo) for both Canada and USA. Ensured the accuracy of data being published and that the data met the requirements of internal and external stakeholders. Supported a new product review for Metrie USA by collecting all product specifications from Lowe's USA to assist in item setup.

Leveraged external training resource to learn and navigate in Syndigo. Utilized the data within SAP daily to support decision making with regards to both item setup and improving the data for the customer. Supported the review and setting up 422 Castle items.

Ensured the retail POS loaded for both Rona and Lowes were executed in timely manner.

• Supported improvement relating to AR claims for Rona by assisting the Ontario EDI team to verify the accuracy of the data being received
• Contributed to data integrity by ensuring data descriptions in existing VMI matched with the incoming data descriptions from New SAP driven VMI system

Merchandising Specialist - Lowe's Home Improvement (Canada) - Canada

(2011-01 - 2019-01)

Optimized product flow and profitability by leveraging knowledge of product trends, customer demands and other factors to identify root causes and solve merchandising issues; selected by management to support a new Merchandising Manager. Secured a backlog of vendor funding to boost promotions by reaching out to vendors. Conducted line reviews on garage door openers, screen doors, patio doors and other product lines; and implemented cost/retails on a daily basis.

Identified trends & executed actionable insights, analyses and recommendations for short-and long-term growth. Planned weekly flyer by evaluating past flyer performance, and selecting suitable products for inclusion in the flyers; also selected products for the annual flyer.

Bachelor of Commerce - Marketing

Business Administration diploma

Business Management diploma