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NIKOS ANGELAKOPOULOS

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

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
NIKOS ANGELAKOPOULOSBusiness Professional