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New York, Ny, Us

Los Angeles, California, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Lead a team of category/vendor managers, with P&L responsibility for both physical store and online businesses.Deliver revenue and profitability goals for the category, by setting category strategy, expanding product selection and vendor base, leading negotiations with large vendors, developing promotional programs, driving innovative marketing and merchandising initiatives to support growth and optimize customer experience, sales, margin, selection and turns.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Lead a team of Instock managers, responsible to oversee supply chain and inventory management for Ambient grocery categories for both physical store and online businesses.Manage inventory strategies to optimize customer experience, sales, margin and turns, with focus on delivering high in-stock rates in order to achieve aggressive growth plans.

Seattle, Wa, Us

In-stock Management for Paper category for online business at Amazon Fresh.- Manage inventory availability and inventory health including: improved instock, inventory planning, vendor operational improvement (efficiency, fill rates, lead time), forecasting, and shrink reduction.Program Management, Supply Chain - Drive cross-functional strategic initiatives to improve customer experience and overall cost structure, within Amazon Fresh Online.

Beaverton, Or, Us

Demand & Supply Planning and Closeout/Off-price Inventory Management for Converse (Nike Inc.) brand using Advanced Analytics. Demand Planning: Lead Demand Planning for Converse (Nike Inc.) North America business, across all product engines and business units. Responsible for mid to short range demand planning, ensuring sound inventory health within all channels in the integrated marketplace and partnering with Wholesale, Direct-to-consumer Retail and Digital planning teams to drive end-to-end plan integration.Inventory/DSI Management: Implement monthly SRI (Shipments, Receipts and Inventory) forecasting and planning process, working cross-functionally with Wholesale, DTC, Inbound Delivery, and Finance teams to drive improved Days Sales of Inventory (DSI) and Inventory turn metrics.Closeout/Off-price Execution: Execute closeout inventory management process for Converse North America, partnering with Converse Factory Store and Off-Price Retailer Account teams to liquidate aged product while maintaining healthy inventory and margin equilibrium.S&OP: Support the S&OP process for the NA business to align sales, demand and financial plans.

Beaverton, Or, Us

Lead Supply Chain Analytics effort to support Global Planning process for Converse brand.Key Initiatives - - Demand Planning Evolution - Global Planning data foundation - Long range forecasting using advanced machine learning algorithms.- Global Operations Planning advanced analytics capabilities (Tableau dashboards and Alteryx data modelling)

Beaverton, Or, Us

Global Supply Planning effort for Apparel/Accessories product engines for Converse brand. - Long Range Supply Planning- Seasonal Forecast (Demand) Alignment- Global Production/Capacity Planning

Beaverton, Or, Us

Role as an internal consultant who partners across multiple product/categorical teams to manage strategic projects for Nike's North America Supply Chain.Led the design, development and delivery of key business capabilities, including - - Inventory/DSI optimization (Multi-echelon) across all 3 product engines for NA geography.- Buffer Stock Analytics modeling for Always Available Accessories business.- In-season response capability to optimize t-shirt inventory pooling from downstream nodes spanning across 7 business lines.

Beaverton, Or, Us

Internship within Apparel/Accessories Supply planning team for Converse brand.Tee Embellishment Program for Retail Business:1. Evaluated possible sourcing options for embellished t-shirts, using qualitative criteria.2. Formulated an inventory forecasting model for blank tees.Factory OTP Dashboard: Created an automated dashboard to measure On-Time Performance of global factories as per Nike benchmarks.

Storrs, Ct, Us

• Team leader for UConn team at APICS Supply Chain Case competition; Won First Place.• President - UConn MBA Consulting clubConnecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Delivered co-op consulting engagements as part of selected MBA student teams. (Only five students chosen university-wide to participate in this project)Market Research for Mobile Application; Client: News Corporation Created a strategic plan of action to improve the interface and functionality of their coupon app, using advanced machine learning analytics in R. Gathered primary and secondary data from customer surveys, focus groups, and industry research.Commercialization strategy mapping; Client: Pitney Bowes

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Operations planning for the production (Refinery) division of the company.- Planned the procurement of optimum crude mix and short term/long term production profile for refinery based on price assessment, product demands and refinery constraint optimization - Linear Programming modeling and simulation.- Maintained optimum crude/product inventory at refinery by effective forecasting and scheduling to minimize risk from price volatility.Achievements:Won ‘Outstanding Achiever’ award- Introduced a plan to outsource the storage space for raw diesel inventory, resulting in potential savings of USD 4.5 million.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Operations And Supply Chain Management

Post Graduate Program, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemical Engineering