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• Develop analytical, data-driven, system solutions to continuously improve and support the Product Supply America’s team.
• Run monthly Excel regional supply & demand plan process utilizing macros and Power Query.
• Support integration of offline process into Anaplan ERP and trained new supply and demand team on process.
• Continued support of the S&OP team utilizing data driven metrics pulled from Tableau via Anaplan integration.
• Develop appropriate data solutions to monitor operations performance and streamline communication platforms with vendors. Evaluate existing capabilities and establish new processes for tracking, measurement, reporting.
• Develop, analyze, and distribute cost and budget reporting for the Product Supply Americas team. Identify potential savings and future initiatives. Formulate data and analytics into sound recommendations for data.

Bedford, MA

• Led the overall effort to create and maintain accurate item forecasts for the region. Highlighted risks and opportunities to the business and worked collaboratively to implement any forecast changes.
• Utilized historical sales trends, key retailer input, and predictive analytic models in the development of a consensus demand plan.
• Assessed and improved on the overall forecasting process including collection of inputs, identification of new sources of information, forecast model selection and validation, and system usage.
• Defined and documented the regional sell-through forecast accuracy metrics, ensuring all team members understand the goal and how they contribute to its achievement.
• Implemented and designed Anaplan sales forecasting/planning system.
• Collaborated with the sales force, key retailers, operations, product management and finance in the S&OP process to formulate an overall forecast for the America’s business.

Bedford, MA

• Analyzed and detected sales trends.
• Designated point of contact for inventory and sell-through questions from the sales team.
• Developed report to monitor stock in the channel and report monthly or weekly depending on timing of data.
• Prepared and consolidate weekly sales reports with emphasis on an executive summary.
• Worked with sales team to prepare 12-month rolling forecast based on inventory and expected sales by account.
• Liaison between the sales team and various other departments within the company.

• Identified and implemented continuous improvements to our sales processes within Salesforce.com.
• Developed, managed, and monitored the corporate growth strategy of the database to ensure the functionality meets the growing requirements for a unified platform for all departments within the company.
• Developed and improved reports, dashboards and supporting process flows to provide timely visibility to sales management.
• Reconcile quotes and purchase orders between internal/external systems.
• Collaborated with process owners to develop test case scenarios for functional enhancements and improved productivity.
• Managed, built, and generated sales operations metrics used by the sales organization and senior management.

Bedford, MA

• Created a monthly interactive Excel Dashboard summarizing KPI’s for each of our 51 territories.
• Provided ongoing support to field sales and sales management team through the interpretation of regional performance data.
• Provided analyses of data directly to the Sr. Director of Sales Operations or CCO.
• Managed and recommended enhancements to our Salesforce.com database framework and reporting architecture that supports analytics behind our commercial strategy.
• Created and prepared periodic reports used to track and analyze sales, marketing & product support performance.
• Assisted with quarterly and annual sales planning processes.

• Part of a group of 5 responsible for maintaining data integrity required for bank-wide reporting & compliance.
• Performed ad-hoc data research/recon utilizing standard industry tools.
• Served as liaison between internal departments and external vendors to resolve any data gaps or discrepancies.
• Maintained database holding every security the bank (140,000+ securities with 70+ data fields per security).
• Extracted and analyzed data for inquiry resolution.

• Documented procedural changes to account for system upgrades and department workflow enhancements.
• Identified enhancements to improve efficiencies in procedures.
• Validated the integrity of vendor data by using standard industry research tools.
• Trained and reviewed daily work of Research Specialists.

• Computed periodic statistics, distribution rates and balances
• Ran standard reports daily, weekly or monthly for auditors, clients or bank management
• Interacted with clients, brokers and various Bank departments to resolve outstanding issues
• Compute NAV by processing various accounting transactions
• Verify cash or securities’ holding discrepancies

Fitchburg, MA

The Montachusett Regional Transit Authority is a public transportation authority in Massachusetts. In my role as the Project Coordinator at MART, I performed data entry and analysis focused on various transportation statistics. Statistics were summarized into monthly reporting packages to be used internally and at town board meetings. Reports were used to.

B.A., Economics

Mba

Graduate Certificate, Business

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