NIKOS ANGELAKOPOULOS
Business Professional
Summary
Successful professional with background supporting company daily activities. Highly knowledgeable with skills in managing and coordinating various tasks. Alert and attentive with expert problem-solving skills. Working with various departments to drive smooth operations. Tactful when guiding and communicating with staff to maintain upbeat atmosphere and peak performance.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Inside Sales & Operations Representative (Europe)
iFIT / Freemotion
6 2022 - Current
- Ensuring a high standard of service for B2B customers
- Communicating product availability, advise product lead times to managers and customers, receive and communicate changes to product availability, optimize lead times and the order fulfillment process
- Forecasting of future inventory needed per warehouse to ensure order fulfillment
- Responsible for preparing sales quotations ensuring accuracy in product, quantities, and pricing (Salesforce & SAP)
- Working with logistics manager and the warehouse personnel to coordinate and communicate order ship dates and track deliveries
- Improvement of Standard Operating Procedures used daily to increase productivity
- Supported senior management by preparing comprehensive reports outlining key operational metrics trends insights.
Assortment Strategy Supervisor
PUBLIC / MEDIAMARKT
07.2021 - 03.2022
- Responsible for assortment management through customer centric tailored solutions
- Develop an omnichannel assortment strategy and continuous optimization of the company's assortment
- Build a strategy based on sales, stock, geolocation, cross and upsell, online versus offline, GFK data etc
- Group the stores in clusters and develop a core assortment per cluster based on the most optimal assortment
- Optimize stores' selling space through space and floor planning methodology
- Work with the logistics team to develop an availability strategy and targets to ensure that there is always the right stock at the right place at the right time.
- Oversaw daily operations of the department, ensuring smooth workflow and timely completion of tasks.
Junior Category Manager / Supply chain forecast & replenishment
AHOLD-DELHAIZE (AB VASSILOPOULOS)
04.2018 - 06.2021
- Develop category strategy based on financial expectations, category role, category performance, customer and product trends, competitive landscape and AB differentiators
- Promotions annual plan
- Negotiations with Suppliers - Work with suppliers to develop and execute meaningful programs and manage brand/item performance
- Work with Space Management tool to translate assortment plan into a merchandising plan and store-level planograms (JDA)
- Category price strategy - develops pricing tactics to achieve financial and customer objectives
- Ongoing analysis of category performance, trends, and competitive assortment and pricing
- Partner with support teams to ensure category execution (e.g., new item set up, planogramming)
- Develop strategic relationships with key suppliers in order to ensure early insight to new trends and products, early and exclusive access to new items, differentiated product, merchandising and promotions
- Core member of SAP Automatic Forecasting & Replenishment tool's team - a tool for automatic replenishment of stores and Warehouses in order to cut surplus stock in distribution centers and stores, reduce stockouts, lessen the large amount of manual work & improve logistics efficiency.
- Contributed to the design of merchandising layouts within stores for optimized category display.
Merchandise & category management Analyst
AHOLD-DELHAIZE (AB VASSILOPOULOS)
09.2015 - 03.2018
- Supporting category strategies emphasizing in category role, in store communication, visual merchandising and strategic planograms (through space & floor planning methodology - JDA tools)
- Designing advanced reports and innovative tools to improve decision making and the overall performance of the business
- Performing Category assessment
- Analyzing Market shares (NIELSEN- IRI)
- Analysis and Monitoring of Key Performance Indicators - identifying risks, errors, issues and improvement opportunities
- Participating in creation of new store layouts and reforming existing ones.
- Performed system analysis, documentation, testing, implementation, and user support for platform transitions.
Business data analyst & loyalty program management
KRITIKOS Super Markets
01.2013 - 09.2015
- Category management reporting & analysis
- Assortment evaluation & private label products development
- Re-planning of customers loyalty scheme
- Increased data accuracy by implementing thorough data validation and cleansing processes.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify key metrics and develop relevant dashboards for tracking business performance.
Education
Master of Science - Business Management
University of Surrey
United Kingdom 04.2001 -
Bachelor of Science - International And European Studies
University of Crete
Greece 04.2001 -
Skills
Continuous Improvement
Problem-Solving
Analytical Skills
Excellent Communication
Team Building
Adaptability and Flexibility
Cross-Functional Communication
Operational Efficiency
Cost Reduction
Logistics Management
Process Management
Multitasking
Certification
Effective Presentation Skills
Languages
Greek
Native language
Greek
Proficient
C2
English
Proficient
C2
French
Upper intermediate
B2
Interests
Travelling, sports, football manager,tv series, cooking with friends
Timeline
Assortment Strategy Supervisor
PUBLIC / MEDIAMARKT
07.2021 - 03.2022
Junior Category Manager / Supply chain forecast & replenishment
AHOLD-DELHAIZE (AB VASSILOPOULOS)
04.2018 - 06.2021
Merchandise & category management Analyst
AHOLD-DELHAIZE (AB VASSILOPOULOS)
09.2015 - 03.2018
Business data analyst & loyalty program management
KRITIKOS Super Markets
01.2013 - 09.2015
Master of Science - Business Management
University of Surrey
04.2001 -
Bachelor of Science - International And European Studies
University of Crete
04.2001 -
Inside Sales & Operations Representative (Europe)
iFIT / Freemotion
6 2022 - Current