Team Leadership & Change Management-- Built and established a brand new central resale purchasing function from the ground up across all CT business units-- Led the effort to ensure culture change from marketing-driven resale purchasing efforts to purchasing-controlled strategic resale sourcing by establishing roadmaps through collaboration and active communication-- Managed one employee and provided career development and guidanceStrategic Sourcing-- Managed all strategic purchasing related activities for a >$100M spend category across CT, which included pricing and savings negotiations, contract negotiations, strategic RFQs, and NPD & R&D projects-- Achieved >$3.5M in savings and cost avoidance in 2020 through rigorous negotiations & process improvement with all major suppliers-- Laid the foundation for all resale purchasing processes that ensures adherence to purchasing methodologies, standards, and policies -- Maintained positive working relationships with external vendors & key internal stakeholders to achieve business goals, optimize savings results, and satisfy customer and supply chain needs for resale products

Team Leadership-- Built and established a brand new central production planning function from the ground up for CT Gypsum US, ultimately led a team of six employees-- Developed the entire team’s onboarding, training, transitioning, and business improvement processes-- Provided career development and guidance while ensuring a collaborative and positive team environment that led to zero negative turnovers and one promotion while in chargeMaster Scheduling, Production Planning, and S&OP Process-- Managed all supply & production planning related issues for CT Gypsum US-- Provided monthly and annual production plans to 8 board manufacturing locations by analyzing demand forecast, production capacity, loading and logistics capacity, NPD capability, and raw material availability-- Led the Supply Review process and provided key information and feedback into our monthly S&OP cycle-- Developed and refined numerous advanced production planning methodologies and tools to improve production planning process which includes detailed scheduler performance file, production cut schedule, production schedule adherence tracker, inventory and full warehouse analysis report, etc.-- Managed and analyzed numerous budgeting, supply networking optimization, and production planning related projects and process improvement efforts-- Headed efforts that saw key production planning metrics improve since arrival – PSA by 46%, OTIF tracker implementation and improvementSAP Implementation-- Successfully managed the SAP ERP system implementation in production planning from legacy JDE system with no negative business impact from the functional area-- Delivered key analysis and data cleansing for prep, business simulation, and Go-Live in a role of SAP Super User, and led an effort to advance change management through various departments

Demand Planning and S&OP Process-- Managed all forecast & demand-related issues for CT Gypsum in the US-- Created robust tools to track forecast bias and MAPE and implemented methods to improve forecast accuracy. Improved SKU forecast accuracy by >25%-- Developed and refined a new demand review cycle by working closely with regional sales managers and educating them with tools such as mode mix forecast, product family trend analysis to improve forecasts to satisfy customer demand-- Assisted in S&OP, LRP, and annual budget process by providing forecast data from statistical models, trend analysis, and market size analysis-- Led the DP effort in CT Gypsum SAP implementation as Change Agent & Super UserSupply Planning-- Managed the entire planning network for a newly acquired Corners Finishing division-- Developed DRP tools & methods to plan timely stock transfers-- Minimized on-hand inventory and removed all SLOB inventory by working closely with sales, marketing, and customer service

Essentials of Leadership Program (EOL)-- Tasked with a year-long business project – Seasonality challenges for Norandex-- Assigned to a diverse team and successfully implemented our solution and presented the project results to SGNA executives-- Gained valuable experience and improved skills in team leadership, project management, time management, presentation and public speaking and teamworkTransportation-- Developed and streamlined new carrier onboarding process, carrier rate review process, freight bridge, and intermodal conversion savings-- Interacted directly with plant, customers, customer service, and carriers by performing daily traffic planning duties for various plant locations-- Assigned transportation projects including CHAINalytics benchmarking analysis, Fibercement transportation cost/benefit analysis, Resin rail tracking system, and SPG learning path and process flowDemand Planning-- Helped develop metrics to improve demand forecast accuracy and reorder points for the purchasing of SPG’s finished goods, achieved inventory reduction by >25%-- Refined the Cedar Creek VMI consignment process and actively managed forecasting and inventory to improve service, reduce lead time and mitigate inventory shortage-- Assigned inventory reduction projects such as Norandex inventory consolidation and Fiberon SLOB managementSaint-Gobain’s Early Career Network (ECN)-- Co-Founder and Leader of the first Saint-Gobain Early Career Network-- Led the network and its leadership team and expanded the network’s visibility across the country in its effort to impact the business through diversity & inclusion-- Increased the members base from 40 to 200+ at the HQ location and expanded to 2 additional hubs in 2 years-- Served as a member of the North American Diversity & Inclusion Council