Michael K
Partnerships and commercial strategy professional
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Partnerships and commercial strategy professional combining 6+ years of partner-facing work with a financial analyst's toolkit: complex Excel models, business cases, and PowerPoint decks built for senior decision makers. Produces deliverables executives and external partners rely on for sensitive, high-stakes decisions, pairing financial analysis with sound judgment and airtight attention to detail. Genuinely curious about retail, having spent a career inside consumer products and retail ecosystems.
Experience
Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships & Commercial Growth - Vitti Canada - Mississauga, Ontario
(2020-01)
Produced analysis, models, and decision materials for senior decision makers and external partners, on timelines that did not move and with detail that survived scrutiny.
- Built complex financial models in Excel, from partnership economics and pricing scenarios through forecasts, using pivot tables and structured model design leadership could audit.
- Developed business cases for partnership and commercial investments, laying out assumptions, sensitivities, and recommendations in language executives could decide from.
- Created PowerPoint presentations with clear charting and formatting that carried sensitive partner and strategy discussions without confusion.
- Supported partnership negotiations and reviews with the financial analysis behind every position, keeping commercial judgment grounded in numbers.
- Managed multiple concurrent projects and deadlines across partners and internal stakeholders without dropping detail.
- Worked daily inside retail and consumer-products ecosystems, building genuine fluency in how retail partnerships create value.
- Delivered results including a roughly 10% contribution-margin improvement, a 35% operational-efficiency gain, and a 47% reduction in labour requirements.
Senior Financial Analyst - Corporation of the Town of Milton - Milton, Ontario
(2018-01 - 2019-12)
- Built budgets, forecasts, financial models, and business cases to support planning, decision-making, and organizational priorities.
- Analyzed financial results, trends, risks, and performance data to identify opportunities and recommendations for improvement.
- Developed KPI dashboards and reporting tools that helped leadership monitor performance, evaluate results, and make informed decisions.
- Partnered with cross-functional teams to align financial planning, operational needs, and business objectives across departments.
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) - University of Guelph
Diploma - Finance - Humber College
