Claire Duncan Email & Phone Number

St Petersburg, Florida, United States

- Generate and maintain forecasts for a large profile of partner brands, encompassing a wide variety of product categories and sectors within the beauty industry. - Use data analytics to justify inventory forecasts and defend these forecasts to internal and external stakeholders. - Update forecasts on a rolling basis to accommodate for promotions, market factors, and SKU status changes or discontinuations. - Use data analytics and industry knowledge to provide input to internal sources for effective decision making on whether to bring in proposed new products, when to release new products, and whether to invest in marketing features like end caps.- Partner with supply chain to ensure effective and efficient inventory purchasing and distribution, including correct timing of purchases for occasions such as promotions. - Understand and apply forecasting models, and know the factors that influence different model types and their accuracy ratings. - Understand how to find and manipulate large data sets and interpret insights gleaned from data sets. - Know how to utilize different data sources and data representation methods such as Power BI and Microsoft Excel Data Cubes to generate the data sets relevant to assigned products. - Continually learn about the newest industry trends and data analytics methods and apply those innovations to my work. - Collaborate with internal and external teams to advance company goals for both parties and be an effective advocate for the company directives via the forecasts and insights generated from my day to day work. - Work as part of my company’s DE&I team to create diversity initiatives and education for our entire building.

St Petersburg, Florida, United States

As a demand planner, I use sales history and my knowledge of market trends and economics to create nuanced forecasts via the following tasks and skills:- Inventory forecasting: Creating forecasts for new proposed products, with extensive research to support forecasts. - Forecast validation: Following up on forecasts for existing, ongoing product lines to verify accuracy of forecasts. - Inventory management: Verifying forecasts support correct inventory purchasing forecasts, including increasing forecasts ahead of potential sales increases for promotions or holidays and submitting purchasing documents for initial orders of any new inventory. Also verifying inventory levels on a distribution center basis to verify we are supporting sales and store inventory as individual regions require it.- Forecast presentation: Providing concise reporting to a mixture of internal and external stakeholders, with detailed supporting research to justify forecasted inventory amounts. Verbal presentation supported by visual data is required, and explanations that can be understood by non-supply chain stakeholders. Must be able to answer questions about finances (inventory costs, projected net sales), sales history, relevant similar products, and market trends. Promotional forecasting: Providing data on projected sales quantities and incremental sales to be generated by promotional activities using historical data from past promotions.

I build and schedule loads on a large scale basis, and provide accurate and complete information so BNSF can work better, faster, and take on more business.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Manage day to day operations of a Toyota Rent-A-Car location by scheduling, training, and supervising staff and verifying correct use of policy and procedures• Provide exceptional customer service to customers and corporate staff from parent company, Berkshire Hathaway by demonstrating features and operation of Toyota vehicles and maintaining Toyota official certification to best represent the current models and brand objectives• Manage inventory for a fleet of 90 cars by executing the ordering, care, and sale of Toyota vehicles within the Toyota fleet structure• Understand and implement the use of the legal documents required to rent a vehicle by executing correct completion of rental agreements and auditing execution by department staff• Manage outstanding bills through an accounts receivable system by billing and following up with accounts owed for a timely collection of invoices owed

• Handled all incoming telephone calls for an afterhours healthcare center• Used triage concepts to prioritize calls for nurses to call back patients by using set criteria to assess importance• Updated files nightly for new patients and discharged patients by updating a digital data base and archiving records for discharged patients• Diagnosed medical equipment problems for patients that called in by using step by step procedures with patients to assess errors

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Global Logistics Management

Specialization in global logistics management, the study of international shipping and supply chain activities.

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Japanese Studies

Associate of Arts with focus on Japanese language.

Automotive Technology, Automobile/Automotive Mechanics Technology/Technician

Studied automotive repair and technology, including course of study on diesel engines and Ford factory training.

High School Diploma