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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

-Supply Chain lead for Hain-Celestial Canada. -Support commercial team acheive $225M+ in annual revenue across national retail and food service accounts.-Single point of contact for customer counterparts on merchandising, replenishment, logistics, and supplier solutions. -Accountable for customer supply chain scorecards to put corrective measures in place to drive improve service and OTIF performance. -Collaborate with all internal and external stakeholders to help reduce service and non-compliance fines/penalties.-Present supply chain view on monthly S&OP and new product launch meetings.-Collaborated with teams to reduce inventory levels and improve supply chain KPIs - Accuracy, Bias, service and OTIF.-Coach team members on flow of goods to reduce costs and improve service.-Mentor and support direct and indirect team members on best SC practices and processes.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

*Owner of E2E supply chain for USA market• Led a team of 5 direct-reports, responsible for coaching and team members’ personal development• Accountable for customer order in stock availability for $20M+ of finished goods inventory, across multiple US DCs• Led weekly USA Supply Chain meeting with internal stakeholders to manage and monitor KPIs• Responsible for S&OP process for both, Retail and Food Service channel - focus 0 to 18 months• Provide leadership for USA sales team to ensure supply chain support for aggressive growth plans within next 5 years• Owner of collaborative planning processes across major retailers - Target, Wal-Mart, Costco, Aldi, Publix, Nestle USA• Work closely with Senior leadership team to make decisions on category assortment, open-to-buy, and promotional activity• Implemented inventory exit strategies and maintained average inventory turn of 14 days' supply• Liaised with sales, marketing, logistics, production, 3PL, purchasing, supply and demand planning teams daily to drive supply chain efficiencies

Mississauga

• Lead a team of 2 demand planners, responsible for coaching and team members’ personal development• Responsible for 0-18 months demand planning for emerging / growth accounts in USA (Retail and Food Service)• Portfolio included major US retailers (Kroger, Publix, Albertsons, Walmart, Costco, Target, Aldi)

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Provide leadership and coaching to team members on consensus forecasting, demand-supply integration and sales planning and reporting• Generating and managing 52 weeks of rolling demand forecasting in SAP APO for more than 1,000 SKUs with an inventory budget of up to 30 million kilos per year • Collaborating with major Food service customers to perform CPFR (collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment); effectively increasing forecast accuracy and reducing excess stock• Collaborated with Loblaw’s supply chain as an embedded vendor, driving mutual KPI improvements through forecasting partnership

Mississauga

•Lead volume forecasting; monitor performance versus forecasts, provide quantitative and qualitative explanations for the volume performance & recommend corrective actions required to achieve/exceed targets•Lead a S&OP consensus outlook meetings between Marketing, Pricing, Category Sales Development, and Supply Planning•Track all Category projects related to product launches and changes (i.e. downsizes, format changes) and advise team on volume changes•Ensure Marketing/Pricing and Demand Planners are aware of seasonal deadlines as it pertains to issuing pricing and maintaining forecasts•Provide guidance to Production team on low temp, put down, and pre-build items as being triggered by confirmed forecasts

•Provide coaching and leadership to Demand Planning team to achieve overall business results•Responsible for on-site collaboration with key customer to increase forecast accuracy and improve service levels•Hold regular meetings with Sales to ensure teams are align on monthly, quarterly & yearly volume targets•Work closely with Demand, Supply, Marketing, and Sales to develop Consensus Forecasts for New product launches

•Accountable to lead a collaborative customer level forecasting process with key external and internal stakeholders•Owns Forecast at Sku and Regional level for Wal-Mart and Atlantic Customers•Performs appropriate Statistical Analysis using shipment, consumption, POS, and other sources of data•Maintain and analyze inputs to accurately forecast promotional demand and drive successful execution•Helps define, prepare and publish key metrics reports across multiple departments•Responsible for feature analysis and post-game reviews to monitor customer accuracy and lead initiatives for improvement

•Responsible for analyzing existing customer forecast accuracy, determining gaps and cohesively establishing a strategy to improve accuracy•Design, develop and implement automated reports to generate dynamic POS information to reflect sell thru SKU ratio, resulting in improved visibility and targeting of vulnerable SKU’s•Provide customized solutions of new product listings, using Retail Link to manage inventory and deliver required information in a timely manner•Monitor rollbacks/in-stocks to ensure all policies are working and follow-up with WM CPFR (customer planning forecast replenishment) to ensure appropriate execution•Review product quantities with Key Account Managers and ensure volumes are communicated to Demand Planning thus minimizing the risk of overstocking or under stocking items•Improve and enhance brand communications by regularly updating brand images and description on Wal-Mart website to generate brand awareness and POS sales

•Designed sales, inventory, and budget reports using ProClarity and Siebel, eliminating labor-intensive data entry and allowing for presentation of information to flow smoothly•Contributed to National Grocery team (LCL, Sobeys, Metro, Safeway) by analyzing sales forecast, trade spend and net revenue to ensure growth in market share ($) •Primary owner of promotional SKU forecasting and demand planning process for grocery team•Provided insights about conditional and unconditional trade spend budget by holding team meetings on importance of net revenue growth