Christopher Johnston Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Represent Mastercard Services business for fintech issuing partners across North America, focused on building partnership with B2B and Channel Partners,

Virginia, United States

Led renewal and cross sell relationships for customer across NAM and EUR for multiple flagship platforms.

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Responsible for the channel, customer development, and trade marketing of the infant formula business, for Nestle, in the USA.

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Responsible for leading the demand planning function, across a 300 SKU, $1.5bn portfolio. I provide daily coaching and process improvement for our demand planning team, and help lead our cross functional S&OP process. In addition, I am leading our internal supply chains customer facing strategy, including identifying opportunities for direct to customer shipments, shared inventory strategies, and forecast enhancements gained from category and channel insights.

Arlington, Virginia

Responsible for maintaining a 18 month horizon forecasting.Experience participating in and leading cross functional monthly business planning processes, including development of R+O's, promotional planning, and new item launches. Attained 80%+ forecasting accuracy on a rolling lad 3 basisImplemented direct shipping initiatives that generated significant financial savingsLed long term (3-5 year) demand planning initiatives, that fed inputs for procurement, factory capacity planning and financeStrong collaboration experience with marketing, finance, sales and factory facing colleaguesVisited key customers, and developed customer facing experience to improve customer forecasting and end to end alignment

Tutbury, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

I had the pleasure of working in an operational role, at the Nescafe and Dolce Gusto factory in Tutbury, England. The role enhanced my customer management skills, specifically heightening my experience in customer service and customer relationship management. I work extensively in SAP and BW reporting, and hold experience across a plethora of transaction types in these systems. Some of my key responsibilities include:- Ordering inbound materials to meet production plans- Developing relationships with material suppliers - Updating and formulating 12 month stock forecasts to maximise case fill rate - Exporting finished goods to zone EMENA - Collaborating with and developing relationships with key EMENA markets- Collaborating with EMENA markets to achieve cost savings - Managing and motivating the Tutbury teams to maximise their professional competency

London, United Kingdom

During my three month internship with Nestlé I had the pleasure of working in a cross-functional role, assisting procurement, supply chain and supply chain finance. My responsibilities and achievements included:- Engaged with social-enterprises to achieve cost-efficient and sustainable procurement- Analysed and evaluating new global supply chain network designs, specifically the political and financial implications and opportunities.- Performed scenario analysis for Brexit- Assisted with process flow alignment for new global supply networks- Liaised with NGO's, co-operatives and farmers to improve operational and supply sustainability

Brighton, United Kingdom

My internship at hiSbe CIC, was a wonderful opportunity, with a learning curve that vastly exceeded my expectations. My responsibilities and achievements included:- Achieved improved alignment with our suppliers, so to effectively communicate our supply chain to our customers.- Carry out extensive customer research to understand the operational opportunities for in-store process improvement.- Analyse the social-media and marketing opportunities available.

Msc Distinction, Global Supply Chain And Logistics Management, Distinction

Bachelor’S Degree, Geography Bsc, 1St (3.7)

Activities and Societies: Geography