Provide financial leadership to drive value creation in core working capital metric by partnering with Supply Chain to develop strategic, tactical and operational support for inventory management activities. Determine root causes of inventory generation and define opportunities to improve business profitability, internal controls and processes.

Collaborate with North American regional Business and Supply Chain leaders to align on Order-to-Cash strategic, operational and financial targets while driving executive awareness and business participation.Develop and gain regional alignment on KPI’s, targets, and tracking mechanisms to ensure ongoing process adoption on a regional level.Participate in Global Value Realization strategy development and execute efforts with in the Order-to-Cash community that are in line with Global Value Realization strategy. Work with Global and Regional Process owners to identify tangible and measurable value creation opportunities related to improving asset efficiency, cost to serve, working capital and customer service improvements.Worked with Global Supply Chain leaders and the Center of Excellence team to develop a Supply Chain Omni-channel strategy to support and deliver capabilities and functionalities that lead to an enhanced seamless consumer experience in wholesale, retail and e-commerce environments.Member of North American team to evaluate and optimize Distribution Center physical material flow. Formulated a strategy and business case to implement multiple picking technologies and supporting systems to maximize operational throughput, labor efficiency and processing flexibility.

Lead a team of 9 Engineers that support the day to day operations and strategic initiatives in multiple manufacturing and distribution sites for the Supply Chain.Responsible for providing COGS and Distribution Cost of Sales reductions on an ongoing basis.Supported multiple International DC relocations and startups by creating business cases, designing facility layouts, specifying equipment, as well as vendor negotiations.Conducted optimization initiaves including restructuring/reorganization and regionalization to improve the Supply Chain network. Created presentations and business cases including discounted cash flow and capacity analysis.

Responsible for day to day operations overseeing 80 employees and 14 manufacturing lines to ensure that cost, productivity, and quality targets were met.Conducted daily team meetings to review goals, quarterly performance meetings with upper management, employee forums.Collaborated with Planning teams to reduce frequency of equipment changeovers and increase OEE.

Worked on short term strategic projects to support Supply Chain. Conducted capacity analyses, facility layouts, new equipment justifications, inventory anaysis, multi-year facility growth plans.

Coordinated multiple projects to improve material flow in existing facilities. Supported the opening of a new facility providing floor layouts, coordination of Facilities, communication and PC Support groups.Served as Project Lead for new product/business venture. Presented updates to senior managment and potential customers, tracked project schedule, authored statements of work, estimated capital investment, estimated direct&indirect labor requirements for manufacturing.Worked with Planning and Operations to evaluate inventory planning parameters to ensure demand schedules were met.

Conduct time studies, cost/benefit analysis, create & maintain manufacturing instructions BOM's and labor standards.Served as project leader for introduction of automated equipment; establishing overhead rates, analyzing production volume, recommending improvements.