Kelsey Jones, Cpim Email & Phone Number

United States

Greater Phoenix Area

-led a subset of the transportation strategy team, fostering collaboration and driving strategic initiatives that aligned with organizational objectives.-Fostered external relationships with key partners, Breakthrough Fuel and Uber Freight, to optimize processes, reduce cost, and utilize market insights to drive decisions. -Initiated proactive comunication and collaboration with stakeholders when risk was identified in Petsmart’s financial goals by leveraging data to provide actionable insights and strategy recommendations, helping mitigate financial risk.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

-Develop and forecast a 126 million dollar budget, demonstrating financial acumen and strategic planning skills. - Improve forecast accuracy through collaboration, sustainable forecast processes, and continual fine-tuning. New processes have led to reducing forecast variance by 6 million dollars annually - Initiate proactive communication and collaboration with stakeholders when risk is identified in financial goals by levering data to provide actionable insights and strategy recommendations, helping to mitigate financial risk. - Utilizing advanced data mining techniques along with Alteryx software to optimize and automate processes, leading to reporting efficiencies and reducing reporting hours by ~300 annually. - Lead and mentor an associate by actively providing feedback to help develop the associate, while also supporting the associate in their workload by helping prioritize projects and remove roadblocks.

-Responsible for creating, implementing, and scaling an inventory management strategy for shoulder suppliers who account for 65% of annual wholesale cost (or 5.6 billion WSC). -Create an end-to-end performance management process to monitor & improve inventory KPIs for ~1000 suppliers -Collaborate with product managers and advocate for technology solutions that benefit all suppliers, taking into consideration the unique planning needs of shoulder & tail suppliers.

-Led a highly cross-functional project to improve forecast processes, which allowed us to increase internal & external explainability & increase forecast accuracy by 15%. -Designed inventory management training, planning guides, & end-to-end process maps to successfully onboard a team of 50 people. -Created data visualizations for inventory management KPIs, enabling the team to monitor supplier performance & prioritize actions for their portfolio of suppliers.

United States

-Created OKRs and executed an action plan for a 98M GRS sub-category. While managing this category, I drove a $600,000 annual incident cost reduction by creating a risk assessment for high incident products & negotiating with suppliers to create product action plans along with raising their damage & defect allowance. -Monitored operational performance for a portfolio of 13 suppliers, accounting for 16% of the storage & organization’s annual wholesale cost (or 35M annual WSC). Partnered with the 13 suppliers to reduce cost & improve operational KPIs. -Collaborated with the technology fulfillment team to root cause low speed badging on site for a specific warehouse. Cross-collaboration led to a 33% increase in speed badging & a 60% increase in allocated WSC (13.9M of WSC) for a single warehouse, improving the customer experience.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Memphis, Tennessee

-Promoted within one year for being a self-starter and identifying an optimal production schedule for a key supplier that allowed product families to be produced together, reducing changeover time & supplier past due from 1 million to $450,000. -Globally planned engine parts while supporting 30 suppliers with an average weekly spend of 2 million dollars.-Reduced backorders from $325,000 to $91,000 by analyzing supplier data, having consistent supplier communication, and finding the root cause of current backorders.-Proactively approved purchase order releases and collaborated cross functionally with operations to relabel/create assemblies to reduce on hand inventory by 3 million dollars.-Improved customer satisfaction by reducing backorder line days from 2,700 days to 620 days, which increased first pass fill by 9%, leading to the highest first pass fill at Memphis Distribution Center for 2019 at a 94%.

Memphis, Tn

Muncie, Indiana Area

Evansville, Indiana

Warsaw, In