• Lead demand planning consensus process for Commercial and Retail Channels with improvement in collaboration and communication between demand planning and business leaders• Lead Pre-Consensus and Consensus team meetings with key leaders monthly to finalize monthly demand plan, identify changes and drivers from prior months and impacts to financial plans, forecasts and egg supply. Communicate final demand plan and partner with finance to understand revenue drivers• Manage and lead team of 4 demand planners with focus on process improvement, personal/professional development• Increased collaboration with key leaders of each business to provide analytics to drive improvements in forecast error from 81% to 89% over 10 month time period• Develop Food Service scorecard in partnership with sales leadership to segment business to support and manage business drivers/variances and report weekly trends vs forecast• Lead ongoing improvements in Retail Channel to focus on key customer trends and increase collaboration with sales, trade and marketing• Collaborate with customer service and supply planning team to ensure communication and resolution for supply planning challenges. Implemented Demand/Supply Planning hand off process to improve communication• Lead SAP APO improvement project to optimize system usability

• Designed and developed demand planning strategy and educated leadership on consensus demand planning, gathering engagement from sales, marketing and finance• Evaluated multiple demand planning solutions and led cross functional team to select system solution that enabled both demand planning, supply planning and S&OP capabilities• Implemented and led demand consensus planning process for US and Canada divisions, leading phased roll-out of demand planning resulting in forecasting of 80% of volume over course of 18 months• Deployed demand planning software solution, partnering with IT partners to develop integration of data flow from ERP to system and cleansing history to develop a baseline for demand forecasts• Developed monthly demand forecasts utilizing statistical forecasting software, combining historical sales trends and consensus forecast assumptions from Sales, Marketing and Finance and establishing monthly forecasts, and led monthly consensus meetings• Collaborated with marketing on consensus demand forecasts for new product launch in Flame Resistant segment and Healthcare segment, resulting in strategic inventory plans and successful product launch to new customers• Created demand planning scorecard metrics and bench marked initial demand forecast error, identified actions to improve forecast error• Led improvement of Large Account Install process to identify large intermittent increases in demand to support on time installation of new accounts

• Implemented S&OP process with support from Sr. Leadership and engagement of Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Operations and Finance• Developed demand planning process, engaged sales and marketing participation in S&OP process• Managed deployment of the demand planning function, including monthly forecasts by SKU, weekly tracking and metrics, communication with stakeholders from Sales, Marketing, and Finance• Developed and deployed supply planning tools to improve SKU level planning, reducing shortages by 80% from 2008 to 2012• Established inventory strategy, safety stock levels resulting in increased on time delivery, $2.0M inventory reduction, and reduction of obsolescence of $700K• Developed master production schedule for Cap and Gown Division, conducted capacity assessments, determining weekly shipment schedule.• Deployed offshore supply strategy for apparel reducing costs, but ensuring flexibility necessary to mitigate obsolescence, maintained on time delivery• Collaborated with marketing on successful new product launch resulting in $9.0M revenue• Managed supplier relationships with key suppliers, participated in quarterly business reviews providing rolling forecasts to improve communication and visibility• Managed demand and supply planners, established key objectives, performance reviews, and provided guidance and mentoring in new functions enabling career path growth

• Supported Sales and Marketing management with pricing analysis, sales forecasting and market driven analysis• Collaborated with manufacturing facilities on the development of annual plans and quarterly forecasts• Managed distribution labor planning with multiple plant manufacturing and distribution sites• Developed and implemented sales management tool to help determine profitability of sales package configurations • Hired and developed finance staff to balance workload and understand the Grad Products business• Presented monthly financial results to senior leadership

• Developed and streamlined reporting for sales and manufacturing metrics• Trained employees on development of reporting using data warehouse• Implemented controls of the Jewelry Balance Sheet to ensure balance sheet integrity• Presented monthly financial analysis to senior leadership• Led Jewelry finance team through leadership transition

• Supported Sales, Marketing, and Operations with weekly and monthly analytics• Developed Access reporting using enterprise data warehouse• Analyzed and projected weekly and monthly sales• Led development of annual operational plan for Cap & Gown Manufacturing and Distribution facility• Developed quarterly forecasts and annual sales plan • Provided key financial support for month end accounting close

• Analyzed weekly and monthly sales.• Assisted the senior financial analyst with sales planning and forecasting• Supported sales and marketing with weekly, monthly and ad-hoc sales metrics• Provided key financial support for month-end accounting close