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.

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.

-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.

-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.

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.

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.

Memphis, TN

Muncie, Indiana Area

Evansville, Indiana

Warsaw, IN