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Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States

Responsible for generating, integrating and translating insights and analytics into growth opportunities that shape decisions and drive organizational action for the Oncology Franchise Strategy and Key Accounts team within the Janssen North American Unit.

Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, United States

Responsible for strategic demand planning across all franchises, and markets in North America, ensuring integration and consistency. Defining and implementing strategic processes across the region and driving enhancements to processes and technology that will facilitate improved efficiencies within the demand planning space. North American SME for the Global Planning Excellence organization, identifying and benchmarking processes for demand planning within J&J and industry best… Show more Responsible for strategic demand planning across all franchises, and markets in North America, ensuring integration and consistency. Defining and implementing strategic processes across the region and driving enhancements to processes and technology that will facilitate improved efficiencies within the demand planning space. North American SME for the Global Planning Excellence organization, identifying and benchmarking processes for demand planning within J&J and industry best practices.• Designed and executed an enhanced collaborative process utilizing customer provided data in partnership with the CPFR team.• Piloted the development and implementation of third-party statistical forecasting process for J&J NeoStrata business.• Project lead for the DC forecasting/split process with third party Capgemini leveraging corrected demand history, actuals, and customer ship to mapping to improve DC level accuracy and a reduction in redeploys. • Reduced the manual forecasting of 23% of the US portfolio by launching a no touch forecasting process applying product segmentation analysis based on volume, value, volatility, and metric performance.• Managed project for the demand sensing process for seasonal businesses to improve agility and reliability.• Minimized demand planner’s manual intervention by 30% by automating the identification of demand history outliers.• Established new regional, GBU, and franchise level MAPE targets in alignment with new Global standards. Show less

Fort Washington, Pennsylvania

Responsible for demand planning processes across all franchises, and markets in NA, ensuring integration and consistency. Played a key role in the deployment of the Global Advanced Planning System.• Directed and executed roadmap deliverables to increase maturity of the demand planning function as outlined in the Gartner Supply Chain Maturity Model.• Streamlined analytics in the demand space through launch of a new tactical planning tool.• Influenced demand planning organization… Show more Responsible for demand planning processes across all franchises, and markets in NA, ensuring integration and consistency. Played a key role in the deployment of the Global Advanced Planning System.• Directed and executed roadmap deliverables to increase maturity of the demand planning function as outlined in the Gartner Supply Chain Maturity Model.• Streamlined analytics in the demand space through launch of a new tactical planning tool.• Influenced demand planning organization with GPEx community of practice and the Enterprise Plan COE team to define J&J’s best practices in the demand planning space. • Piloted the development and implementation of third-party statistical forecasting process across North America consumer business.• Implemented exception-based forecasting process focusing planners and reducing forecast adjustments.• Led the creation of the leadership dashboards providing insight to metrics, trends, and the effectiveness of adjustments to the forecast. Show less

North Wales, Pa

Managed global demand planning requirements of both solid dose and injectable generic pharmaceuticals for domestic and international sites with a proven track record of over 72% forecast accuracy. Responsible for the forecasting of over 650 in-line and newly launched NDCs manufactured across multiple domestic, international, and third-party sites contributing to over $1.5 billion in net sales annually. • Served as demand planning subject matter expert (SME) on multinational team for… Show more Managed global demand planning requirements of both solid dose and injectable generic pharmaceuticals for domestic and international sites with a proven track record of over 72% forecast accuracy. Responsible for the forecasting of over 650 in-line and newly launched NDCs manufactured across multiple domestic, international, and third-party sites contributing to over $1.5 billion in net sales annually. • Served as demand planning subject matter expert (SME) on multinational team for global implementation of SAP.• Managed Teva’s top 40 products representing 40% of all North American demand, to ensure customer forecasts are accurately depicted and allocated.• Facilitated review of aggregate, customer, and item level product forecast performance for global reporting and executive S&OP.• Drove results of 20% increase in accuracy and stabilized bias through implementation of global forecasting KPIs Show less

Managed a team of demand planners who were responsible for the forecasting of over 1200 in-line and newly launched generic pharmaceuticals for domestic and international sites. • Increased department efficiencies in the monthly demand planning process and increased forecast accuracy by implementing key improvements to the Oracle forecasting tool, Demantra.• Coordinated the life cycle management process (LCM), a cross functional team managing the company’s product portfolio throughout… Show more Managed a team of demand planners who were responsible for the forecasting of over 1200 in-line and newly launched generic pharmaceuticals for domestic and international sites. • Increased department efficiencies in the monthly demand planning process and increased forecast accuracy by implementing key improvements to the Oracle forecasting tool, Demantra.• Coordinated the life cycle management process (LCM), a cross functional team managing the company’s product portfolio throughout the various stages of the products life cycle, with the goal to balance/optimize market share and profitability.• Improved overall accuracy by 17% for injectable product line through the development and management of tracking and analysis process of annual demand patterns to improve volume trend accuracy. Show less

Princeton, Nj

Developed demand forecasts for generic pharmaceuticals based on demand patterns and business trends, achieving an overall accuracy level of above 75%. •Improved Customer level accuracy to over 80% through collaboration with sales and product management •Collaborated with Pricing and Sales Team regarding inventory availability and new business opportunities•Co-chair of monthly demand planning meeting that reports forecast accuracy and product variances to supply chain and product… Show more Developed demand forecasts for generic pharmaceuticals based on demand patterns and business trends, achieving an overall accuracy level of above 75%. •Improved Customer level accuracy to over 80% through collaboration with sales and product management •Collaborated with Pricing and Sales Team regarding inventory availability and new business opportunities•Co-chair of monthly demand planning meeting that reports forecast accuracy and product variances to supply chain and product management•Key contributor to SAP system and process upgrade•Provided monthly financial analysis comparing the company target to future forecast and order unit history•Maintained new product forecasts until time of launch Show less

Bachelor’S Degree, Sociology

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Education record

Activities and Societies: Delta Phi Epsilon