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Littleton, Co, Us

Denver Metropolitan Area

Responsible for the development and execution of the sales, inventory, and operations planning process for all consumable products globallyWorking collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure that the SIOP plan will ensure delivery of all strategic objectivesDrive resolution of production capacity, quality, and sourcing critical issues, ensuring root cause analysis and implementing measures to prevent future gapsFacilitate weekly reporting on key performance indicators such as forecast accuracy, DOS, inventory value, capacity, factory utilization

Denver Metropolitan Area

Responsible for the development, implementation, and management of the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process Benchmarking of internal and external best practices to identify and implement continuous process improvement/effectiveness initiativesCommunicate critical business issues with understanding of business drivers and constraints – lead the conversation, generate the insight, drive decisionsLeading the Global Supply + Demand efforts regarding the importing/exporting of cans and ends into North AmericaOrchestrate the delivery of our customers’ demand, the impact of our business’ footprint strategy, and the requisite supply plans in a financially prudent wayLead and manage the IBP analytics team in line with IBP requirements (both process and function)Influence and train critical leaders and team members on new processes and tools Monitor and report specific critical IBP KPIs managing deviations/dependencies, reporting exceptions and ensuring appropriate functional responsible persons are executing

Golden, Co

Maximized category turnover through proactive project management strategies.Monitored shopper and market insights to capitalize on the latest trendsImproved quality processes for increased efficiency and effectivenessProvided account management for multiple national and regional accounts in order to ensure category performance and layout met the retailer goals.Hire, train, and manage the learning plan and development of direct reports, while ensuring accountability for individual and team goals.

Advised, analyzed, and directed process that drove effective management of floor space based on sales, profitability, and inventoryIdentified core assortment, exit strategies for clearance, and timing of purchase order placement to ensure assortment and financial plans were in syncAnalyze shopper behavior to ensure new store layouts would maximize store sales and profitability

Greater Denver Area

Ensure a team of 25 financial planners developed executable financial plans that tied back to the top-down planning guidance provided.Led a team responsible for the design, implementation, and distribution of reporting for the entire merchandising / planning organization.Created planning and assortment tools for the merchandising / planning organization.Actively manage the planning group to provide training, resolve issues, and improve planning processes.

Responsible for evaluation of existing reporting across all departments looking for enhancement, consolidation, elimination, and/or creation based on business requirementsAnalyze and provide recommendations on pilot program performance for the entire organization.Participate as a key member in the integrated design of go-forward business processes

Responsible for creation of bottoms-up financial plans and open-to-buy managementAnalyze and provide recommendations on key style performance in order to drive salesDeveloped a store level tool that allowed the analysis of over/under stocks at the unit levelProvide recommendation to the buying and allocation team on new store assortment and inventory targets