Ryan Lee Email & Phone Number

Irving, Tx, Us

Irving, Tx, Us

• Ensure that the company requirements for the category are fulfilled with the optimum quality, service, and total cost of ownership, which are consistent with the needs of our internal business partners, the opportunities presented by the market, and meet both short and long-term requirements for the business.• Driving a transformation agenda, driving increased levels of collaboration and a more strategic regional approach to category management, enabling simplification and standardisation of procurement category and process.• Lead the implementation of the Promotional Product Procedure with support from regulatory, legal, quality and safety be able to provide a procedure that allows activities to be actioned quickly and compliantly. Protecting both our consumer and our brand.• Manage communications between K-C suppliers and our internal business partners to ensure business needs are met on an ongoing basis.• Develop and maintain expertise on vendor selection, relationships, and negotiation. • Maintain close, co-operative relationships with key business partners, enabling development of relevant, forward focused category strategies.• Operate with an E2E Supply Chain / Business mindset, and in partnership with BU, ensure service continuity, continuous improvement and maximised value delivery to enhance K-C brand equity and ultimately improve K-C’s level of profitability.• Maintain collaborative relationships with across Procurement and leverage these relationships to drive value for the EMEA business and to support the needs of other regions.• Ensure that internal control requirements are met in an efficient and effective manner.

Irving, Tx, Us

• Act as a key contact for Demand Management to UK Logistics & Distribution Manager. • Act as leader and standardisation gate keeper for UK Demand Management team. • planning projects, processes. Responsible of maintaining meeting cadence with the other Lead Demand. • Execute the Demand Management strategy within UK. Understand gaps and opportunities within the regions and lead CI call with the other regions. • Be accountable for the full forecast accuracy result for all relevant countries as well as my own portfolio. • Provide functional coaching and leadership to develop the skills and capabilities of the UK Demand Management team and other functional teams. • Ensure training and development needs for UK Demand Management team are identified and progressed, including a formal onboarding process for all new Demand Managers. • Provide input for annual Demand Managers performance objectives and ensure systems are in place to measure and report on progress (responsible of the coordination of demand management reporting and KPI tracking). • Provide day to day supervision to the demand manager team in UK and act as escalation point. • Own Demand Management standard work and ensuring that other demand managers are adhering to the deadlines. • Escalation points for Demand Management stakeholders and logistics leadership • Coordinate Demand Projects, Processes and Standardisation for Demand Managers, connecting with other Lead Demand Managers in the European regions. • Own the roll out of Prevail and the road map of Arete usage after implementation. • Expected to own pan-European exceptions decision making together with Strategic community. • Ensure that Demand Managers adopt Inventory management ownership (level and quality) • Represent Demand Management in the S&OP Demand Review and facilitate demand Management inputs.

Irving, Tx, Us

• Develop and maintain a monthly demand schedule by maintaining an 18-month rolling forecast at SKU level. • Manage the monthly UK MBO sign off forecast release process. • Drive improvements in forecast accuracy and error with CBM using account Bias reporting. • Provide forecast insights and recommendations for quarterly financial & budget process, plus 5- year business plans, and category specific projects, innovation and strategies. • Improved the overall forecast accuracy across all managed categories using statistical forecasting tools covering areas such customer history performance, data cleansing and forecast locations splits. Most successful improving adult care accuracy from 2.4% up to an average of 50% plus • Managed roll-overs and allocation rules to optimize service and reduce obsolescence and cost exposure. • Drive improvements in the Demand Planning processes, including DIO optimization. • Support implementation of supply chain best practices/strategies across categories and accounts • Understand and communicate supply chain implications and solutions (when appropriate) of category-specific business plans. • Work closely with SC and S&OP colleagues, especially Collaborative Planners, in support of tactical execution which meets business objectives! • Management of all aspect of product rollovers to ensure continued stock availability and disruption to customers is avoided as well as write off materials are kept as low as possible. • Part of Project Libra team – Review of how project have performed and discuss whether there needs to be change in the process to create a leaner way of working. • Training and on-boarding of new Demand Manager and graduates coming into the team as well as continued training and development opportunities as well as cover for CLM when out of the office.

Irving, Tx, Us

• Liaising with in country Logistics Operations and Pallet suppliers to control services, reporting, and inventory and movement reconciliation activity in an accurate and timely manner. • Create of all purchase order for logistics operations in the consumer network as defined by plant or sales organisation ownership. • Communication with Logistics Operation Manager to ensure that service receipts, invoices and current are processed and current. Enabling cost reporting and forecasting are accurate and delivered in a timely, aligned manner. • Liaising with 3rd party logistics providers and AP to resolve any invoice queries, and ensure payments are made to the agreed terms where services have been completed to KC terms and conditions. • Managing the SAP SCD process to ensure deployment and delivery costs are reported consistently and accurately in line with operations activity. • Supporting of internal benchmarking, project activities to help identify opportunities for cost and process improvements. • Identify potential cost transformation savings and deliver distribution cost benefits that are both achievable and cost effective. • FORCE tracking process to ensure that all records of CT tail and headwinds to enable a transparent process is adopted.

Irving, Tx, Us

• Ensure an accurate up to date view of market demand by maintaining a robust rolling forecast at the agreed level and time horizons required for planning and commercial decision making.• Implement and maintain defined best practice S&OP Demand Review processes for your SKU portfolio. This requires strong influencing skills (including at Director Level) to effectively facilitate the management of variances between robust aligned bottom up forecasts and regional volume and financial targets.• Ensure system master data is maintained to provide the correct location split, optimize direct deliveries ex mills and provide in market coordination of product rollovers and run out to individual customers in order to ensure smooth product transition, whilst managing and minimizing product obsolescence/write off.• Effectively utilize independent analysis of available data streams and information (category sales history, past promotional/event history, customer sales& inventory data, customer collaboration & insights etc) in order to drive forecast improvements.• Publicize forecast accuracy & mix accuracy results along with other appropriate metrics, highlighting improvement opportunities and develop plans to improve results wherever possible.• Manage demand according to supply capability and commercial prioritisation decision-making. Active management & communication of product allocation requirements between Supply Chain and Customer Management teams.• In market coordination of short term sales opportunities between Customer management and supply chain teams to optimize service and working capital.

Coleshill, Birmingham, Gb

Key account management of 10 customer accountsBuilding and maintaining a good customer care relationship with clients and shipping companiesCreating pre advices for inbound deliveries using red prairie systemGenerating of weekly stock reports.Ensuring correct levels are maintained and dealing with any discrepancies that may occur.Organizing and helping with customer stock takes.Management of staff to ensure all reworks/relabeling are done on time and correctly.Raising of T2L and T2LF forms for export deliveries.Raising of export paperwork dor worldwide shipment by road, sea and air.Customs entry and clearancesAccount reconciliation and invoicing of services/delivery charges to customers on a weekly/monthly basic