Sara Wright Email & Phone Number

Roswell, Ga, Us

Roswell, Georgia

Leading 3 teams in our KCP Customer Care Organization. The Partners in Quality Team manages the incoming quality questions and concerns and works with customers for the best possible resolutions. I manage the Business Process Specialists which bring solutions to our Customer Care Organization of 50+ employees including process improvements, value creation, systems enhancements, new software rollouts, transportation and logistical customer solutions and everyday capability training. The third team is our OS&D (Overages, Shortages & Damages Team) and manage all of the shipping discrepancies between KCP, our Carriers, and Customers as well as drive value creation solutions for KCP and our customers.

Special Projects: Full Agile immersion working on our WATT eCommerce Battle.

Roswell, Georgia

Interim Project Leader (Maternity Cover)- Responsibility for Commercialization for the North American Region’s rollout of our Smart Restroom Solution.

Roswell, Georgia

Assist in the development and delivery of category overviews and action plans for assigned external strategic customers, utilizing category management principles and strategies that will improve sales results and deliver customer category objectives. Provide feedback and recommendations on current systems, strategies, initiatives, and processes to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the overall program. Develop and implement category plans and analysis while applying category development best practices. Responsibilities: • Contribute to development of category overviews and action plans for select strategic customers, utilizing category management principles and strategies that will improve sales results and deliver customer category objectives. • Work closely with outside vendors in order to proactively identify category opportunities and make actionable recommendations based upon in-depth analysis of market, customer, and consumer trends and data. • Build and maintain positive business relationships with the senior leaders of KCP most strategic customers. • Assist in the training, development and advancement of the members of the Category Development team • Interface with category decision-makers within assigned customer organizations on category development and opportunities.

Roswell, Ga

 Create monthly Global Marketing dashboards, used by Sector President, that identify strengths and weaknesses on a variety of metrics including price realization, innovative product growth, customer updates and brand profitability. Develop analytics that influence recommendations and decisions on price increases, forecasting adjustments, growth incentive plans for distributors, sku rationalizations, and other product promotional acitivities for teams from Europe, Mexico, Asia, Canada, and US.  Develop, implement and manage plans and processes for enhancing profitability in brands through initiatives focused on improving price realization in the B2B market; analyzing cost reductions and competitive pricing in the marketplace. Provide counsel and financial/business expertise to the Directors of Sales and Marketing throught the leadership of a multi-functional group which guides decisions for price strategies and execution on a quarterly basis. Collaborate with European teams to ensure strategies are in alignment.  Built CTM, School for Profit, and Brand Analytics via reporting from SAP BW and trained Sales Force & Marketing teams (200 individuals and team leaders) on identifying opportunities for growth in new market areas based on brand positioning, targeted profitability and the concepts of value and pricing proposition.  Ensured successful implementation of an acquisition (Jackson Safety $275M) into Kimberly-Clark Safety on the sales operations side in March 2011. Ensured seamless execution of sales reporting, forecasting and pricing at go-live. Assisted with sku rationalization of over 1,000 sku’s and enabled decision making on brand rationalization for our Kleenguard and Jackson Safety Brands.

I was the senior pricing analyst for a large buying group Novation (GPO) for our Healthcare sector. Worked on contract pricing, loyalty programs, and system and process improvements.

I was the Global Planner for our Healthcare Glove business. I complied forecasts from US, Europe and Asian offices and developed a monthly production schedule for almost 400 sku's. Worked through allocations due to pandemic events (Avian Flu).

I was a SME (Subject Matter Expert from the business side) Working on blueprinting our Healthcare Sector for SAP APO implementation. Attended SAP training in PA and helped to develop the master data requirements needed for implementation. Worked on the project for a year with SAP consultants as well and determined best option was to tie in the HC rollout with the Consmer rollout as the SAP instances needed to be on the same system.

Planning nonwoven Apparel codes and Peel Pouches for the Healthcare Sector at Kimberly-Clark. This included running a monthly production schedule, working with the plants on their daily production schedules, and working through allocation processess due to higher than normal demand triggered by SARS, Anthrax and the Avian Flu.During this time, I also participated in being one of the first planners to trial SAP's Demand Planning module to work through forecasting and by doing so increased forecast accuracy almost 10%.

Centralized the inventory deployment position from our Tucson office for Health Care sector to Roswell, GA (central office) and managed inventory deployment for the US and Canada of Health Care products. Also worked on Model Stock Target Inventory Positioning Statistical Model to manage inventory to lower targets without backorders and to reduce inventory carrying costs by $18MM in the US.

Worked on Warehouse Management Systems Project for the Consumer sector of Kimberly-Clark to install systems into the finished good and raw material fuctions of our distribution centers and production facilities. Trained the employees on how to use the system, worked through system glitches and succesfully helped to intall the system in 8 locations.

Mba, Marketing Focus

International Study Abroad in Prague and Budapest for International Business courses.

Bachelor In Science, Industrial Management, Logistics

Activities and Societies: Alpha Omicron PiMinor in Biology