Michael Tovey

Vice-President, Frame Purchasing, Planning and Product Development @ New Look Vision Group

Country

Canada

City

Toronto

Industry

Apparel & Fashion

Skill

Retail, Merchandising, Fashion, Sales Management, Visual Merchandising, Luxury Goods, Apparel, Forecasting, Inventory Management, Loss Prevention, Marketing Strategy, Profit, Sales, Store Management, Trend Analysis, Wholesale

Experience

Vice-President, Frame Purchasing, Planning and Product Development

New Look Vision Group

2018-9 - Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

Montreal, Canada Area

Lead frame purchasing across all divisions of New Look Vision Group – including Lunetterie New Look, Greiche & Scaff, Iris, and Vogue Optical. Am also spearheading development of the corporate private label program. Responsibilities also include management of the buying and planning teams, and working closely with the business leads and operational teams.

Partner

Game Developer

2014-7 - 2018-9 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Toronto, Canada Area

One of founding partners of start-up company created to bring innovative independent eyewear to the North American market.

National Key Account Manager

Luxottica Canada

1999-2 - 2014-6 · 15 yrs 5 mos

Led the key account program for Canada with responsibility for all programs with key retailers including HBC, Holt Renfrew, TJ Maxx (Winners/Marshalls), Costco, New Look Vision Group, Hakim Optical, Sporting Life and others.

Sales Director

Bausch and Lomb

1989 - 1999 · 10 yrs

Responsible for leading key account activity for Ray-Ban, Killer Loop and Revo eyewear. Key accounts included HBC, Eatons, and several optical chains.