Chris Clower Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

• Chris Clower is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Corporate Performance Improvement practice in Seattle. He specializes in enterprise cost reduction via supply chain levers, including strategic sourcing.
• Mr. Clower has advised and led a strategic supply chain transformation assessment for a $1B brick-and-mortar retailer. Savings opportunities were identified that would reduce annual procurement spend by $9.1M (21%).
• For a ~$350M manufacturer of medical equipment, led a comprehensive assessment of the end-to-end supply chain, including an comprehensive maturity appraisal, procurement and logistics spend analysis, SKU profitability.
• For a $20B global manufacturer and retailer of industrial products, Mr. Clower directed sourcing activities across multiple categories that resulted in annual savings of $10.0M on spend of $66M (15%). Optimized capital.

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

• Lead and support design, creation, testing and delivery of custom ERP software and reporting for nonprofit businesses with revenues averaging $100 million in revenues, 300 FTEs, and 20+ concurrent report users.
• Drive transparent and consistent client engagement and communication with the focus on process automation, data consolidation, and reporting formats for ad-hoc client needs.
• Lead projects from requirements gathering, project definition, and validation of strategy to final… Show more
• Lead projects from requirements gathering, project definition, and validation of strategy to final product build-out including ad-hoc reporting requests utilizing SQL, Access, Excel, and VBA skills. Show less

Greater Seattle Area

• Managed Reverse Logistics for 10,000 SKUs of kitted and dekitted inventory items world-wide; coordinated inventory planning cycle with internal and external partners, vendors, and 3P logistics companies.
• Led a project to identify processes within Operations, Logistics, Manufacturing, Tax and Trade groups and external vendors that enable inventories to be repaired and refurbished through Latin American vendors. As a.
• Led a project to identify processes within Operations, Logistics, Manufacturing, Tax and Trade groups and external vendors that enable inventories to be repaired and refurbished through Latin American vendors. As a.
• Developed reporting and metrics to track the performance of national and international groups that increased transparency and consolidated and unified global team's performance under a common umbrella of daily KPIs..

Greater Seattle Area

• Led forecasting, analysis, reporting, and purchasing activities related to hardware capacity and hardware inventory planning to support the $2.8 million International Retail organization and its 7 distinct sub-groups.
• Developed capacity and capability assessment processes and mitigation strategies to improve inventory availability and increase purchasing efficiency for over 1,300 available hosts/items.
• Led a project to automate the identification of Excess and Obsolete inventory… Show more
• Led a project to automate the identification of Excess and Obsolete inventory with subsequent reallocation of idle hardware capacity between datacenter users within the $160 million Consumer and Business Development.

Seattle, WA

• Senior Operations Manager (Production Controller)
• Managed financial performance and resource allocations for a $280 million program including inventory management, purchasing, and forecasting for over 12,000 SKUs in inventories; through audit and utilizing Lean Six.
• Developed and enhanced inventory planning tools and processes with the focus on improving resource availability, unit's KPIs… Show more Senior Operations Manager (Production Controller)
• Developed and enhanced inventory planning tools and processes with the focus on improving resource availability, unit's KPIs, and streamlining of weekly, monthly and quarterly reports and recommendations to senior.
• Led cross functional projects with Finance, Operations, and Asset Management to develop and enhance cost saving strategies for high volume, national mission-critical programs.Operations Manager - Forecasting and Planning
• Forecasted optimum resource and cost utilization plans, managed internal reporting, and oversaw operational performance for $36 billion in assets while leveraging Lean and Six Sigma continuous improvement strategies.

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