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S&OP, Supply & Demand Planning, Procurement, Transportation, Warehouse Operations

New York, Ny, Us

Lead and enable project teams to successfully deliver client engagement transformations (Advanced Planning Systems) within budget and on schedule, while ensuring goals and objectives are met.• Cultivate a dedicated client relationship to ensure successful project delivery.• Effectively interact and communicate with various-leveled client personnel.• Utilize project governance to manage the organizational governance, project timetables, and deliverables.• Employ risk management to determine root cause analysis and issue management.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Led a team of Customer Supply Chain Managers overseeing supply chain execution to deliver Club Sales (Costco, Sam’s, BJ’s) representing ~$1B in annual sales. • Direct Customer interface driving mutually beneficial supply chain efficiencies, performance, and growth.• Develop, deploy, and drive strategic initiatives holistically across the Customer and Clorox.• Facilitated $2M+ in cost saving initiatives cross-functionally to enhance gross margin for Costco.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Led a team driving operational excellence of 100+ external manufacturers across North America representing $1.5B in revenue and $70M in working capital (1/3 of global volume; 2/3 of global innovation).• Partnered and managed operational performance to ensure safety, product quality, availability, inventory management, cost, and innovation goals were met.• Enhanced operational priorities and focus by instituting portfolio segmentation, fill rate visibility, and production schedule attainment & adherence.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Led a team driving inventory optimization while delivering operational and service goals across a global supply chain. Integral team member leading supply planning discussions in the S&OP process.• Led initiatives to refine supply planning processes (Plan, Source, Make, Deliver) resulting in greater visibility leading to customer service and working capital improvements.• Drove S&OP supply design changes through roadmap development to delivering a sustainable process.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Supported Supply & Demand Planning teams in analytic, strategic, and process improvement initiatives.• Managed M&A planning assessments to determine future state processes, tools, resourcing, and organizational design.

Rochester, New York, Us

Led a team in driving demand management, finished goods & raw material planning, and deployment activities.• Supported $1.7B in Revenue and Inventory Management of $100M.• Collaborated with Sales & Marketing, Operations and Planning Teams to deliver against service, inventory, and unit/revenue goals for the Americas Region.• Ensured the commercialization process for Digital Capture & Devices and Ink Jet Systems was robust and delivered on timing and cost targets.

Irving, Tx, Us

Led global teams accountable for finished goods & raw material planning, sterilization, and deployment activities.• Engaged with Sales & Marketing, Customer Care, Product Supply and Manufacturing teams to generate executable supply and demand plans totaling $865M.• Supported new product launches through the development of inventory targets, production volume and roll out timing.• Supported, developed, and implemented S&OP processes for the Health Care sector.