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United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Techxhub is a Gaming accessories and Sim-racing solutions distributor in IMEA• Spearheaded the development and implementation of renewed distribution logistics processes across India, ME, and South Africa, leading customer service, order management and warehouse.• Refined inventory management strategies, reducing cyclical count variances from 3.5% to less than 1%• Managed cross functional collaboration with brands, vendors, LSP, ensuring seamless operations and timely product launches.• Refined the channel inventory reporting process leading to efficient sales planning process.• Oversaw pricing and promotions strategies, maintaining pricing controls and ensuring alignment with market campaigns.

United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Product launch management across different teams regionally and globally such as product program, sales planning, variant team, Go-to-market strategy, factory and local execution teams to drive effective time to market.• Product transition management to ensure successful launch optimizing overall profitability and minimizing channel action to deplete end of life products.• Manage, design and lead the SKU Planning (SKU Planning logic, end-to-end process definition, and implementation) for Material Requirements Planning (MRP) with Accenture (BPO), factory and execution teams, ensuring highest levels of product availability to customers.• Monitor and review the channel inventory status against DOS KPIs, highlight business risks/opportunities, support sales regions to achieve their targets, maintaining a positive channel margin, and facilitating informed decisions on supply allocation.• Initiate ad-hoc reports varying in different granularities, provide analysis, risk scenario analysis and recommendations to business management for timely decision-making.Achievements:• Experimented a phased process to manage End-of-Life products by introducing stage wise ramp down across variants and colors reducing the Excess and Obsolescence (E&O) by 32% for the pilot product.• Selected to set up supply chain operations for West Europe in Dec-Feb 2017, and Americas Smartphones during Feb-July 2017. Also, supported Chile country of origin (COO) setup process in coordination with factory, trade compliance and business stakeholders.• Managed Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) planning for Material Requirements Planning (MRP) purpose with Accenture team (BPO) and factory reducing unplanned demand increases to less than 3% variation (from 25%+) by Q4 2017• Managed healthy channel-based supply allocation to the regions ensuring positive channel/customer profitability (5%+) by keeping (Days of Supply) DOS within target levels

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Overall operations product management strategy, commitments, functional processes and Rhythm of Business, ensuring demand alignment via Sales & Operations Planning and execution, providing direction on global channel lifecycle and inventory policies across segments & regions, landing new products to markets across multiple channels and advancing supply chain capabilities to support strategic product roadmaps.• Manage inventory availability risks in region through proactive analysis of demand forecasts /supply information.• Lead or participate across virtual teams for a specific product category, defining and executing new business models to support category go-to-market plans.• Actively used info graphics for business reporting of the target sales invoicing/realization; inventory management risk (channel and distribution centers); project updates, new product introduction (NPI), End-of-life (ramp down) progress and any region specific developments.• Highlight and validate inventory/availability performance, inventory forecast, demand forecast, issues in the Monthly Business Review (MBR) to fine tune the Sales and Operations plans.Achievements:• Selected as global launch manager for Nokia 230. Successfully launched with 95%+ volume utilization and zero backlogs in the launch phase• Actively involved with the closing tasks prior to ensure smooth transfer to HMD Global• Actively involved in a multi-modal MEA fulfillment project co-designing the goods flow, stock level and replenishment processes. Estimated benefits: 10% cost per unit (CPU) reduction and improved OTD by 25%.• Supported Sub Sahara Africa (SSA) region for 3 months with customer availability, managing operator markets, customer collaboration (CPFR), inventory reporting and control. Simplified internal reporting, hence enabling daily visibility of channel DOS, weekly allocations and efficient order management.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Monitor and review regional monthly plans, measure against inventory forecasts, maximize sales of Nokia products across markets via demand-supply balancing, making fact based supply allocation to ensure optimal channel inventory, customer availability and best product based profitability based on finance guidance.• Minimizing customer availability risks and maximizing sell-through by proactive supply analysis, scenario planning, guidance and follow-up with relevant stake holders in region, areas and global units.• Present Sell-in attainment against targets, risks and opportunities, and communicate weekly supply plans to regions in the weekly Demand Supply Balancing (DSB) meetings.• Facilitate discussions and provide guidance to execution teams (factory, order fulfillment, customer logistics, master planning) in a multi-site, multi-cultural environment in case of conflicts.Achievements:• Exceeded Nokia accessories annual target by 3% by cross-functional coordination with order fulfillment, factory, logistics service providers and sales.• Nominated to be the single point of contact representing Nokia Asha range from customer logistics towards regional and global stakeholders• Ensured controlled channel inventory and supported informed business decisions on supply allocations by creating regular monitoring and reporting on Days of Supply (DOS) data.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Promoted from Logistics Coordinator, the key objective of this role was to support the demand planning process on one hand and on the other hand execution to ensure supply to meet the plan while maintaining on-target or below inventory levels thus making the end-to-end supply chain efficient. This was accomplished by creating/establishing tools and processes to capture demand, cross-functional coordination across multiple sites and teams, and continuous improvement in the planning process. A key project, Project United, which required global planning standardization and setting up of planning cadence within the regions was timely executed. Additional responsibilities included 1) Demand and availability for devices, 2) channel inventory reporting for the region and 3) Value Replenishment Partner (VRP) program logistics ownership.Achievements:• Initiated and deployed the channel visibility reporting and Customer Collaboration Tool (CCT) with the largest accessory distributor lowering the planning variation within the target range of <20%• Value Replenishment Partner (VRP): Developed a Supply Tool for the VRP business model to control replenishment of high value products to each customer in MEA

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Planning, forecasting, order fulfillment and managing demand of Nokia products and services worth over $1Bn annually and functioning within business KPI’s for Lowergulf region. Ensured smooth induction to new members in the logistics coordinator team by providing constant support to understand business holistically. Achieved on-target planning in 1H08 and 2H09 for the sales region.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

This role involved handling all logistics activities for 'The One' and Nakheel Palm Project moving over 90K CBM of imports and exports annually. This role also involved efficiently managing warehouse space by way of stock rotation and working cross functionally.Achievements:• Improved imports customer service level (from mid-60% to 99%) for 8 consecutive months.• Systematized internal administrative procedures – reduced monthly stock discrepancies from 12-14 to 2 per month and avoided manual errors.

Education record

Customer Driven Logistics is a learning solution that covers supply chain core processes and competencies (29 courses). This program is.

Master'S Degree, International Business, Distinction

Awarded the 'Top Graduating Student in Supply Chain Management'

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General, Distinction