· Provide technical direction and support to the North American Manufacturing operation to optimize the management of physical and information flows along the manufacturing supply chain. · Responsible for the implementation of SAP APO for master plans in the factories along with the transition from a monthly cycle to a weekly cycle for 7 factories in Canada, United States and Mexico.

· Responsible for the integration of a newly acquired company into the L’Oreal systems and global supply chain organization. · Responsible for the planning and allocation of supply for a business that grew 120% the first year and 75% the second year after acquisition across the all global locations. · Responsible for the domestic and international service levels along with international inventory held at the central location which consisted of 7000 sku references. · Supported the warehouse operations with priorities and guidance for international orders along with out of the box ideas on how the orders should be sent to the floor for picking. · Collaborated with international affiliates on demand and supply to ensure to maximize the sales in a reduced supply situation. · Challenged the demand coming from the affiliates to ensure that excess and obsolete and/or supply shortages were not the result of the demand passed.

· Lead a team of 2-4 people during this role. Initially responsible for Skincare for all Consumer brands with additional responsibility for hair care products for consumer brands. · Responsible for with the factories (4 factories) to ensure service, inventory and Excess and obsolete goals were met. · Presented monthly to senior brand leadership on service and inventory risks.

· Responsible for all new launch activity for a variety of brands and product types. Essie, L’Oreal Paris Cosmetics, Garnier Skincare, and L’Oreal Skincare. This role was responsible to strategic alignment with the plants to ensure there was proper inventory levels for launch activity which makes up roughly 20-25% of the annual sales any given brand. · Present monthly to Senior Brand management the status of launch supply and risk.

• Responsible for planning the plants 280M units produced annually• Manage the 12 month rolling production plan for 45 production lines ensuring finished goods inventories are at a acceptable level to maintaining high service level. • Communicate supply issues, deviations from the plan and potential resolutions to appropriate parties• Implemented process to calculate the needed amount of supply per production line to ensure maintaining high service level and low finished good inventory.• Work closely production planners on a daily basis and ensure timely production on low days of supply products to prevent stock outages at customers• Led monthly plan validation process. Negotiated and integrated requirements/limitations from plant logistics, production, engineering, and finance into long term production schedule. • Determined long-term capacity risks and initiated contingency strategies; production performance improvement, capital investment, and subcontracting requirements.• Restored service rate at SAP Go-Live from 95% to target of 98%.• Work closely with Demand planning to ensure that forecast issues are resolved timely• Measure production to schedule performance and schedule stability including reasons for changes• Assure schedule is continually maintained and communicated throughout the supply chain• Act as the primary interface between the production floor, logistics and customer service• Maintain established systems of product identification• Responsible for the 3 year plan and annual budget.• Manage the trend to the annual budget and communicate to upper management

• Managed, coached and developed 25 production and maintenance employees on six packaging lines that produced hot pour foundations, lip and nail enamel products for L'Oreal USA.•Implemented new work practices that enhance manufacturing efficiency through the principles of TPM and Six Sigma.•Implemented practices to ensure the production lines that meet the quality standards.

• Manage and coordinate the monthly production plan to ensure compliance to the plan• Work with Master Scheduler and Component supplies to develop and validate an achievable plan based on available capacity, manning and expected delivery of required components and bulk• Direct the release of materials to insure uninterrupted supply while maintaining overall inventory within the prescribed limits• Ensure planning minimizes Excess and Obsolete• Interface with Supervisors, Cell Managers, Warehouse, Logistics and Vendors to insure timely receipt and release of materials

• Manage and developed forecast using SAP APO Demand Planning.• Using ABC analysis to determine ideal inventory levels while maintaining customer fill rate• Responsible for finished goods inventories to ensure maximum customer order fulfillment rates with a minimum inventory investment• Recommended course corrections in forecasts and inventory build to support customer fill rate requirements and inventory reductions as required.• Manage Regional Planner to ensure assigned plants maintain customer fill rate while maintaining low inventories. • Used statistical modeling to forecast sales for all further processed items. • Work with key executives and sales reps on forecasting issues and reviews.• Develop forecast accuracy reports monthly• Designed reporting tools for monthly analysis and monitoring of forecasting process. • Business Process Owner of all SAP transaction which department were owners.

• Manage 12 production facilities to ensure proper level of inventories are maintained while ensure an acceptable fill rate. • Leads unusual demand/product shortage issues under area of responsibility• Oversee the creation of the master schedule and specific production schedules at the plant level.• Ensure plants produce materials needed and when excess WIP is available ensure the best choices to consume the WIP. • Responsible for ensuring all raw materials are on hand for production runs • Coordinate with sales to ensure adequate inventory is available for all orders and promotions.• Analyzed sales trends to ensure proper inventory levels are maintained.• Coordinate with other departments (procurement, customer service) to ensure customer priorities are met efficiently and on time. • Coordinate with plant management to resolve issues that may deter meeting customer orders and expectations. • Utilized SAP APO Supply Network Planning to generate monthly production plan.• Communicate with Production Planners to confirm feasibility of production plans.• Document current processes for department and training documentation.• Prepare production schedules for 3rd• Coordinate with distribution planning to ensure inventory at the correct outside warehouses.• Liaison and tester for all SAP upgrades and transaction modifications to ensure all transactions used by the department were working correctly after any upgrades.

• Determine deposition of aged, slow-moving and obsolete inventory. • Compiled forecast of major customers from their company’s database/website.• Variance analysis of actual versus planned production.• Variance analysis of actual versus forecasted sales.• Compiled data for presentations for director when meetings with upper management are scheduled. • Managed all travel for the Director of Production Planning.

• Provided phone and online support with Microsoft Windows 95, 98 and 98SE. • Assisted home and business users with computer software related issues.• Assisted computer technicians on issues where usual troubleshooting methods failed. • Quality checks on computer technicians online responses to home and business users.

• Weather observer, oceanography technician • Prepared yearly budget • Implemented and setup computer system for all weather data • System administrator of computer systems • Weather observations quality check• Collecting and interpreting weather information in the local area• While being supervised by a forecaster, briefed pilots, both pre-flight and in-flight.