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Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

Responsible for leading the S&OP process for the Philippine market (~US$400M business). Leads the demand planning team in working with senior commercial sales and marketing members to develop robust forecast plans and collaborates with supply chain partners to deliver service and cost objectives.Maintained S&OP process stability throughout a difficult external environment, enabling the business to achieve a historic 15% revenue growth. Enhanced demand and supply planning drumbeats which delivered a 63% reduction in inventory write-off costs.

Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

Led and worked with a large cross-functional and regional team in the successful implementation of "Plan-To-Win", a demand planning process transformation initiative to migrate to the SAP APO system. Responsible for the Japanese and Philippine markets.Served as a regional subject-matter expert on the S&OP process and SAP APO system. Provided critical demand planning process insights and system design builds to allow for a smooth and successful process transformation.

Shanghai, China

Collaborated with senior supply chain leaders in transforming China's S&OP process to enable faster growth through strong end-to-end business planning. Introduced statistical forecasting and building blocks event management to the local demand planning team to enable significant improvement in forecasting and customer service metrics.Led the monthly S&OP process for Gum and Candy category, the market's fastest-growing and most volatile category (~US$280M business). Worked with senior commercial leaders on S&OP process improvements, to deliver a 33% improvement in forecast accuracy and a 60% reduction of service misses. This enabled the company to reach its highest market share in history.

Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

Led the monthly S&OP process for the Meals category, the largest category of the Philippine business (~US$160M business). Worked with senior sales and marketing colleagues in developing robust forecast plans. Led demand and supply drumbeats to achieve consistently strong customer service levels.Delivered a 25% improvement on forecast accuracy metrics, enabling a 99% case-fill rate - a first for the Meals category in the Philippines. These are best-in-class metrics across the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa business unit.

Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

Cross-functional management training program in sales, marketing, finance and supply chain operations. Led the successful execution of critical projects to deliver business objectives.- Sales (5 months): Negotiated and executed Mondelez's in-store display program in East GMA customers, with the company's largest territory distributor.- Marketing (3 months): Developed the launch plan for Mini Oreo in the Philippines. Took the lead in Oreo PH's digital marketing campaign.- Supply Chain Finance (3 months): Developed a dashboard for monitoring and reporting key inventory financial metrics across the IPATHS region (Indonesia, Philippines, Asia Pacific Exports, Thailand, and Singapore).- Customer Logistics (5 months): Designed and implemented the reverse logistics process for managing bad orders. Took the lead role in managing the transport and distribution operations of our main distribution center (70% of PH business) with the company's third-party logistics providers.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Industrial Engineering

- Outstanding Master's Thesis Study - Department of Science and Technology (DOST-Philippines) Engineering Research and Development.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Industrial Management Engineering Minor In Service Management

- Magna cum Laude - Outstanding Industrial Engineering Student (2014)