A.McGowan
Category & E-Commerce Operator

I build and run digital retail businesses inside larger organizations.

For the past four years I’ve grown Henry’s Photo Centre like a start-up inside a national retailer — owning category, e-commerce, data, systems, and the deals that move them forward.

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Andrew McGowan
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What I do

The role functions as a start-up within a corporate ecosystem. Six connected disciplines, run together rather than in silos.

C—01

Category Strategy

Assortment, sourcing, pricing, and promotional strategy across online and in-store services.

C—02

E-Commerce

Running the platform end to end and leading the migration off legacy infrastructure onto a modern Shopify stack.

C—03

Data & Analytics

Power BI reporting on campaigns, user behaviour, and competitor activity — feeding SEO and UI/UX decisions.

C—04

Project Management

Standing up the division’s project environment and workflows so work ships predictably across teams.

C—05

Systems & Tooling

Modernizing outdated systems and equipment to win back customers and revenue the business had been losing.

C—06

Negotiation

Negotiating the vendor and platform agreements that expand what the business can offer customers.

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How I work

Build the system

I take fragmented, under-resourced operations and turn them into competitive, customer-facing products. The work is as much plumbing and process as it is strategy.

Let the data decide

Decisions on pricing, assortment, and experience are grounded in what the numbers and customer behaviour actually show, not in assumption.

Work across the org

Trusted by leaders across e-commerce, marketing, and merchandising, working hand in hand with the broader teams to deliver, not in isolation.

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Selected work

Representative examples built to show how I work across the role. These are demonstrations with sample data, not client deliverables, the underlying work is confidential, so what follows shows the approach and the build rather than real numbers.

AI & Web Dev

A customer-service assistant for a photo & print business. The kind of AI tool I build and integrate, here answering product, turnaround, and order questions. Try a suggested question or type your own. Runs on scripted responses for this demo.

Photo Centre AssistantInteractive demo
Hi! I’m the Photo Centre assistant. I can help with print products, turnaround times, file requirements, and order status. What can I help you with?
Project Management

A connected marketing & campaign operation, run across multiple boards and teams. Campaign calendar with live-window timelines, dependencies, subtasks, and team ownership, feeding connected boards for partners, competitors, and content. Modeled on the multi-workspace Monday.com environment I built and manage end to end.

Marketing & Campaign Calendar — FY26Sample data
24 campaigns5 teamsLive window Apr–Jun3 connected boards
CampaignStatusIntentTeamLive window (Apr · May · Jun)
Live now · 3
+Spring Catalog Launch Seasonal Live Convert AMKR
Apr 2 – May 4
Creative brief & assetsDoneCreative · due Mar 24
Email + social buildDoneMarketing · due Mar 30
.com landing pageWorkingEcomm · due Apr 1
+Membership Drive Partner co-op Live Capture JLAM
Apr 10 – May 1
Partner agreement & budgetDonelinked → Partners board
In-store signageWorkingStore Ops · due Apr 6
+Free Shipping Weekend Live Convert KR
Apr 18–25
Promo code setupDoneEcomm
Email blast scheduledDoneMarketing
Scheduled · 2
+New Arrivals Feature depends on: Spring Catalog Scheduled Build AMCW
May 5 – 22
Collection page on .comWorkingEcomm · blocked by Spring Catalog LP
Fulfillment readinessPlanningStore Ops
+Mid-Year Clearance Scheduled Convert KRAM
Jun 1 – 24
Pricing & margin modelPlanningCategory · AM
Planning · 1
Loyalty Relaunch Planning Build AM
Jul+
Partner Campaigns
Co-op budgets, launch dates, and creative assets per partner.
mirrored → Calendar
Campaign Calendar
The hub. Every campaign, with status, intent, channel, timeline, and subtasks. Connects out to all boards below.
4 connected boards
Competitor Tracking
Weekly competitor promos and pricing, by priority and category.
informs → Calendar
Content & Social Tracker
Per-channel content calendar, drafts, and publish status.
mirrored → Calendar
Store Events
In-store and digital events, owners, and run-of-show.
linked → Calendar
Ecomm Content Updates
.com page builds and updates tied to each campaign.
linked → Calendar

Boards connect through linked and mirrored columns, so a partner’s co-op budget or a competitor’s promo surfaces directly on the campaign it affects. Teams work in their own board; the calendar rolls it all into one source of truth across five teams and multiple workspaces.

Data & Analytics

An explorable performance report, the kind I build in Power BI. Slice by day, week, or month; see top products, best-performing locations, and trend versus last year. Built to show how decisions get made from data, not just how charts get drawn. Explore the controls below.

Performance Overview — FY26Sample data
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Location

Revenue trend vs last yearThis yearLast year

Top productsAll locations

Locations by revenue

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Track record

2022 – Present

Manager & Category Manager, Photo Centre

Henry’s · Toronto

Lead a seven-figure division spanning online personalized printing & gifting and in-store instant printing, film development, video transfer, and passport imagery. 75,000+ e-commerce orders supported to date. Own strategy, operations, and the systems behind it all.

2018 – 2021

Category Manager / E-Commerce & Marketing

The Healthy Butcher · Toronto

Grew the Produce category to roughly a quarter of each store’s sales across three locations. Led a brand-wide POS and inventory system launch, ran home-delivery e-commerce, and produced marketing across the brand.

2021 – 2022

Marketing Coordinator / Operations Contractor

NUVO Taste & NUVO Fresh · Toronto

Ran day-to-day operations, logistics, and customer service for a self-built local fresh-meat delivery platform, and owned the digital and content side across both brands.

2022

Category Manager, Toronto

Tiggy Delivery Corp · Toronto

Owned product selection and brand relationships for the Toronto division.

2016 – 2018

Production Operator

Nova Scotia Spirit Co · New Glasgow, NS

Let’s talk.

Open to conversations about e-commerce, retail systems, and building something new inside a larger organization.