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.

Andrew McGowan
01

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Modernizing outdated systems and equipment to win back customers and revenue the business had been losing.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

02

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.

03

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.