Javier Jimenez Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny

New York, New York

New York, New York

Greater New York City Area

Demand Planning • Maintain an $88M international cross brand portfolio including Private Label and branded product comprised of over 1200 SKUs. • Work closely with New Product and Go To Market team to conduct feasibility analysis on new products during concept ideation and final gate reviews to establish consensus on year 1 monthly forecast including 3 year annual projected totals. • Lead monthly brand specific Consensus meetings with sales and marketing managers to reconcile forecasts against budgets, mitigate anticipated shifts in demand, and analysis and incorporation of Sales and Marketing strategies in forecast.Process Improvement & Systems• Implemented and executed SKU by SKU performance evaluation protocol which contributed to improved service levels and achievement of organizational forecast accuracy goals.• Developed data integrity process to clean skewed and unchecked data in planning system (Demand Solutions Forecast Management) including linked skus, promotional volumes, and stock outages.• Serve as project lead for BI software (IBM Cognos/Looker) reporting expansion. Projects included translation of user requirements, detailed process outlining, and database mapping for automation of Forecast Management reporting (Weighted Forecast Accuracy, Sales Forecast Accuracy, Trend Analysis, New Product Tracking, Forecast Reconciliation).

System Implementation & Change Management • Developed implementation plan based on cross-functional requirements and led implementation of a new ERP system (NetSuite) for all sales, operations, and supply chain functions.• Created and conducted training on NetSuite functionality and implementation activities to enable adoption by staff across production, warehousing, sales, brand management, and marketing.Demand Planning• Developed Excel management tool integrating 3-month rolling forecasts, sales, inventory, product availability, seasonality, and item rotation/stagnation for effective demand planning and management.• Analyzed product profitability using projected sales volume, cost of goods, and production lead time to inform recommendations for future production, such as product discontinuation. • Lead Monthly S&OP and weekly Consensus meetings with brand managers, representing 7 global regions to reconcile forecasts and anticipated demand in order to create the global production plan; interfaced with Operations in Hong Kong to execute per plan.Merchandising• Developed channel specific merchandising strategy for global deployment of online marketplaces in North America, Europe, Asia, South/Central America. • Lead selection and setup of ERP auxiliary system (ChannelAdvisor) for multi-channel E-commerce aggregation for the centralization of global direct to customer selling.• Established region specific order fulfillment to ensure customer satisfaction, reduction of organizational cost, and efficiency of inventory utilization.

Norwalk, Ct Atlanta/Roswell/Marietta, Ga

Decreased labor cost by 20% with the implementation of employee production incentives. • Developed ordering model which increased profit by 15%.

• Created multi-faceted rapid response protocol for recapturing products from all warehouse, vendor, and customer locations.• Conducted contract evaluations for new and existing third party fright and logistics providers • Conducted key market analyses of tariffs, tax, freight, other relevant costs for international expansion • Performed per unit cost analysis of multiple warehouses, shipment channels, and vendor channels • Analyzed consumer trends and presented to management results and recommendations for improving purchase to return ratio

Roswell/Marietta, Ga

Served as liaison between clients, investors and subcontractors.• Logistics coordinator for subcontractor deployment, and project scheduling.

Sandy Spring , Ga

Worked with employees to evaluate customer-ordering trends, and used data to maximize revenue.• Increased customer base by creating specialized menus to suit various dietary needs of local demographics.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Managerial Science And Psychology

Activities and Societies: President of Georgia State Chapter of "The National Society of Leadership and Success" DJ at WRAS Atlanta 88.5.

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Psychology

Activities and Societies: Recipient of the Georgia Perimeter College Educational Achievement Award

Education record

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Culinary Arts And Related Services