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White Plains, Ny, Us

Paris, Fr

Beaverton, Or, Us

➤ Leads Digital Transformation strategy, delivery, analytics and 5-year capability roadmap for Nike & Factory Partners to achieve on-time performance goals, increase capacity utilization and reduce manufacturing lead time across factory locations. ➤ Leads multiple teams in building new digital solutions to manage capacity, utilization, optimization, minimize supply risk driving a value of over multi-million dollars in annual savings. Fosters relationship with business operations, technology and cross-functional teams in championing digital eco-system & integration services in the cloud.➤ Gained sponsorship from senior executives (business and IT) in building automation roadmap to optimize sourcing, planning and manufacturing operations.➤ Enables continuous improvements by analyzing cost drivers, process gaps, quality and delivery operations through business insights across in house and factory partner operations.➤ Member of the Customer Advisory Board for start-ups

Beaverton, Or, Us

➤ Gained sponsorship from Digital leadership and secured investment for migrating to Amazon Web Services (AWS); Developed vision, and roadmap with global resources located across North America, Europe, China, Japan, and various emerging markets. Optimized product pricing capabilities across Digital and Brick & Mortar retail stores. ➤ Built systems and pioneered processes while managing 100+ cross-functional resources in a matrix organization; managed change to Product Management operating model for agile delivery. ➤ Delivered new merchandising, inventory management, SKU forecasting and pricing solutions to Direct-to-Consumer (Nike.com) and retail locations. Integrated mobile applications, mobile Point-of-Sale solutions, analytics, and B2B integration with retail and fulfillment partners

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

➤Delivered start-up vision, strategy and identified business use cases for Big Data. Raised co-funding from 5 high-tech partners, including HP, Oracle, and Infosys. Partnered with Engineering & Architecture to design the technology stack.➤Gained C-level sponsorship for business case and delivered first phase of the capability successfully including investment for year 2 & 3 under “Going Digital” strategy. Delivered roadmap for operating model, org. setup and integration within business & IT functions.➤Go-To-Market solution predicting the new product launch success in 8 days vs. 8 weeks; Enabled GM to read & respond in near real-time. ➤Drove 40M+ dollars in incremental revenue optimizing the order fulfillment patterns for North America Top Retailers➤Led Store/SKU recommendation engine for High-Frequency Stores (1.5M stores) with a target of $100M+ growth in Developing markets.➤ Co-chair for Asia Pacific American Network Top Talent Leadership program for 4 years, P&G.➤ Recipient of “Computer World Award” in Data+ Conference for Business Intelligence innovation, 2013.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

➤Delivered business sufficiency framework in partnership with Supply Chain function to track and close the forecast gap of $100M to $250M+ on average for the month end target. ➤ Introduced mobile solutions to track Daily KPI for Senior Executives across 3 time zones, 7 regions, 80+ markets, and 130 categories.➤ Established Reporting Factory Services to standardize and deliver reporting through the offshore shared services➤ Led Global Business Services evolution org. design and IT competency framework for “Going Digital” strategy.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

➤ Accountable for leading technology & process track in redesigning S&OP resulting in 20% cycle time reduction and upside growth of over $500M annually.➤ Gained sponsorship from CFO for Global Financial Reporting Transformation. Integrated Management P&L and External P&L for single source of truth. Delivered savings of 400+ FTE transitioning to high-value work.➤ Established an operating model & playbook for M&A, including Folgers ($3B), Pharmaceuticals ($3B), and Teva Joint Venture ($4B).➤ Managed a portfolio of programs for setting up “follow the sun” shared service model. Introduced cutting edge BI tools and data integration platform. Delivered productivity savings of 165+ FTEs and $10 Million on-going cost savings from legacy solutions/platform elimination.➤ Led massive IT changes for Beauty & Grooming business restructuring of $35B impacting over 200+ systems and complex business processes ranging from 20k profit center changes to financial restatement filings with SEC.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

➤ Established and managed critical global supply chain systems operations. Led the roll out of state of the art enterprise application integration capabilities. Led a team 10 FTEs in implementing Order Status Life Cycle, Sales & Distribution Reporting projects.➤ Managed a portfolio of $2M in delivering sustainable operations resulting in timely demand & supply pass to the downstream systems. Maintained overall and accurate order visibility to Customer Service team which resulted in $40M revenue generation.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, High-Tech

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering