Andrew Jacques Email & Phone Number

Irvine, California, United States

The Sr Specialist, Distribution Vehicle Lifecycle is responsible for a wide range of vehicle distribution actions that span the inner workings of the full vehicle lifecycle from start to finish. The individual takes full ownership of carlines from the creation of the product structure, to planning and forecasting, ordering and production management, and ultimately to vehicle launch and nationwide distribution. The individual in this role interacts with the full scope of vehicle distribution operations, collaborate with multiple internal and external groups, and have a direct impact on vehicle sales. The actions of optimizing inventory efficiency directly contributes to the company’s goals of efficient high inventory-turn vehicle sales and presents a vast opportunity for the individual to grow and achieve great pride and ownership in their accomplishments.As allocation is the dealer inventory distribution driver, this position is responsible for the tracking and analysis of sales and inventory performance and the resulting regional coordination of allocation strategies to maintain quality, balanced inventory while also supporting stated sales and wholesale objectives. Maintains the vehicle ordering systems and supports regions with inventory management and tracking. Leads design and implementation for all system enhancements related to allocation systems.

Irvine, California, United States

Analyze vehicle monthly financial and sales results, develop forecasts & annual business plan, extract and manage data from a wide variety of systems and prepare monthly reporting packages. Seek opportunities to improve forecast and analytical tools. Identify potential opportunities for business improvement and cost savings, as well as risks to the current business plan and potential offsets. Analyze budget to actual variances and provide detailed explanations for over/under performance.Includes the development of systems and analytical tools and reports for conducting market level financial analysis utilizing Business Objects application. Deploys and trains others in Finance and Regions on Business Objects database. Develops regular process with Region Sales for delivering profit target results by market and provides recommendations for optimizing Mazda’s profits by market. Establish, monitor, and develop sales programs to achieve profit targets. Also works with Dealer Development Department on dealer facility initiatives and market approach for developing target markets as well as estimating and realizing ROI on facility investments.

Newport Beach, California, United States

● Delivered leadership and direction for strategic planning, operational excellence, sale optimization, budgeting, logistics, trade, and people management, ensuring sustainable business growth.● Leveraged strong analytical capabilities and industry exposure to analyze data and support executive planning.● Recognized as subject matter expert; streamlined end-to-end operations of trade department and reconstituting the team post move from Scottsdale, AZ to Newport Beach, CA.● Strengthened database security and compliance with organization reporting policies by coordinating with in-house programmers to code SQL queries, programmed Microsoft Access to update supporting reference tables and accessed secured financial data via QlikView to complete analysis.● Optimized decision-making process and ensured customer-centric sales strategies and business plans by providing actionable insights and detailed reports in coordination with sales, sales support, and pricing teams.● Triggered significant increase in gross profit by evaluating pricing models and strategy for process improvement. ● Commended by senior management for professionally resolving trade managers’ resistance to change by presenting clear and digestible explanations demonstrating benefits to their workflows.● Enabled the executive team to improve customer service, profitability, revenues, and cost control through financial and operational forecasting models to ensure prompt response for proactive measures.● Maximized reporting system efficiency by utilizing VBA to automate reporting, minimize time required from 20-30 hours per week to 10 minutes daily. ● Saved pricing analysts’ time over 10 hours per week and improved majority of rate request responses in less than 24 hours by integrating an innovative sales rate request process/tool with legacy and IBM AS400 systems.

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

● Strategized effective logistics and demand plans by ensuring sufficient train capacity to load all APL cargo and to meet modern market demands.● Rationalized end-to-end operations of ocean terminals to prepare APL cargo for loading/unloading. ● Proactively addressed and resolved critical issues, such as loading delays and ocean terminal not meeting container offloading schedule.● Increased logistics operations efficiency for moving cargo via United States ports by coordinating every aspect with ports and railroads.● Guaranteed seamless operations and APL cargo movement by tracking and formulating comprehensive reports. ● Built and maintained collaborative relations with responsible parties and ocean terminal’s internal teams to meet required delivery dates and customer expectations.

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

● Managed wide range of functions, including sourcing, onboarding, and management of vendors in coordination with procurement manager.● Sourced, negotiated, and on-boarded new vendors to APL’s systems. ● Reviewed and approved non-standard invoices from vendors.● Minimized costs by negotiating rates and introducing vendors to APL dispatch team with primary APL contact. ● Served as point of contact and backup to dispatchers; supporting to place a load with an existing vendor with 90% successful rate by persuading known truckers to move the cargo requested.● Prioritized workload and assigned cargo to appropriate vendors by coordinating with APL dispatch team.

Chandler, Arizona, United States

● Interacted with clients with focus on refining customer service standards and improving intermodal operations.● Proactively addresses customer queries and provided necessary information regarding cargo and potential delays.● Collaborated with vendors to provide quick and efficient service for customer cargo.● Responsible for approval of special cargo to move via rail roads (hazardous, steel coils, out-of-gage, etc.)

Chandler, Arizona, United States

● Displayed keen attention to detail while completing and submitting necessary documentation to rail roads for all Hanjin Cargo.● Assured compliance with safety/legal requirements by completing hazardous and special cargo documentation.● Worked directly with customers and vendors to immediately solve issues with the rail roads.

Chandler, Arizona, United States

● Reconciled and processes accurate payment to Hanjin vendors, primarily rail roads.● Identified and resolved anomalies by auditing extremely large invoices consisting for thousands of line items and totaling several million dollars per week.● Developed process for auditing and paying rail lift invoices from US ocean terminals.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Marketing