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United States

Rochester, New York, United States

Rochester, New York, United States

Rochester, New York, United States

*Led a Logistics Provider Tender Process by creating a Request for Proposal template and vetting XX+ carriers to optimize transportation processes and costs, realizing savings of XX%.*Developed expertise in FDA and DOT regulations framework, speeding up Tender Process completion by X months.*Initiated a Distribution Network Expansion project, defining.

Diamond Bar, California, United States

• Designed a 21-day production schedule for a plant in Indiana, employing 100+ people and running 5 production lines across 250,000 sq ft area.
• Re-evaluated production schedule according to customer orders and manufacturing constraints, taking into account seasonal trends. Portfolio included 65 SKUs across Purified, Mineral, Spring and Distilled water.
• Volunteered to spend a month on-site, learning more about plant and company. Focused on systems in use (Oracle and Logility), raw material costs and warehouse space management (main plant and external 3PLs).
• Collaborated closely with Manufacturing, Transportation and Customer Service to solve supply shortages by locating cheapest logistics routes or comparing production costs at different plants within Niagara's network.
• Built Excel tools tasked with assessing capacity constraints. For example, increasing frequency of spring production runs ahead of projected supply constraints by requesting more spring tanker deliveries and more staff.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Planned and controlled production and allocation of 70 000 tonnes of dairy product per year for Danone Dairy's biggest European market.
• Fostered relationships with internal and contract manufacturers in Germany, Belgium, Spain and the UK, securing business worth £120M per annum. Brands under supervision included Actimel, Activia and Oykos.
• Co-founded new profitability-and-MOQ(minimum order quantity)-feasibility tracker. Balancing supply and demand before committing to costly production runs. Huge drop in write-off costs as a result.
• Spearheaded project work on Innovation and Tail Management - master data set-up, forecast and buy-in date alignment, raws & packs orders and first production date.
• Created advanced reports in Power BI and Excel with data from various systems (WMS, SAP R3 and APO, MicroStrategy)

London, United Kingdom

• Led day-to-day contact with 8 out-of-house suppliers, building great relationships across industry.
• Accounted for all supply-related issues to a £30M portfolio, consisting of 150 SKUs.
• Initiated major streamline of portfolio - SKU count went down by 17% (25 fewer), while supplier count went down by 40% (3 fewer), stripping off a layer of complexity from company's supply chain network.
• Led supply planning's effort to flag stock at risk (near expiry date or blocking too much cash). Chaired bi-weekly meeting with Inventory and Customer Team where actions were assigned.
• Built weekly Root Cause Analysis of shortages, with data from Excel and SAP, and reported findings to local and HQ leadership teams

London, United Kingdom

• Managed £10M portfolio comprised of 200 SKUs;
• Created full 18-month forecast planning based on past trends and current EPOS data;
• Accountable for the category forecast accuracy and bias - tracking assumptions and adapting forecast to the market dynamics, and anticipating forecast change impact to stock, smooth coordination with key SC partners to.
• Achieved and maintained monthly Forecast Accuracy target of 87% - top 5 across all company markets;
• Scenario planning on full promo calendar of top customer - Walgreens Boots Alliance;
• Completed monthly stock reconciliation report, including sense-check against system discrepancies;

London, United Kingdom

Full-time position in the Business Development team. Responsible for 10% increased website traffic, 8% user base growth and the account management system of the platform.

Bremen Area, Germany

Interned in the Middle and Far East Sales Department. Partnered with the largest shipping companies - MSC, CMA CGM, Safmarine and Evergreen - and quoted sea- and air-freight transportation inquiries for over 30 multinational enterprises.

Gabrovo, Bulgaria

Intern role in the Logistics Department. My main tasks were delivery scheduling and supplier portfolio management. Additional project work was related to capacity planning for the new raw material warehouse.

Sevlievo, Bulgaria

Summer intern at the distribution center. Assigned on a project that led to cost-cutting solutions for the primary and secondary packaging of the company's products. Other day-to-day tasks included: checking inventory levels with SAP and maximizing warehouse space utilization.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Strategy, Operations And Finance

Activities and Societies: • President of Simon Data Analytics Club; • Vice President of Deal Sourcing at the Simon School Venture Fund; •.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), International Logistics, Management And Engineering

Activities and Societies: Captain of Varsity Soccer Team (2013-2015), Supply Chain Club