Steven Cole Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

Richmond, California, United States

Responsible for frequent and wide-ranging and complex reporting and analytics for a larger scope of global business. Ensures all information and analytics are communicated for the successful achievement of business and sales plans. Engages the global sales team and proactively provides information to the field sales organization to support client related issues and drive strategic account planning. Collaborates cross-functionally, interacting with field sales management, field sales representatives, planning, sales operations, and product management.

The Regional Supply Planner is responsible for the optimization of a finished goods flow plan across all categories within a specific region. Ultimately through target setting, analytics, collaboration, and problem solving this position is focused on maximizing service levels as well as inventory turns. This position is part of a community of regional supply planners that work together across brands and regions to maximize service and profitability globally.

Portland, Oregon Area

Identify, explore and assimilate national and regional level insights to a myriad of internal/external stakeholders.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Drive business results and outcomes focused on region, brand, and channel providing multi-disciplined analytics, business process changes, and recommendations for KPI improvement. Provide scenario planning and trend analysis to determine how key KPIs are tracking to goals. Key areas include the following:o Inventory Utilization and Optimizationo Corporate Forecast o Demand vs. Supply Plano Logisticso Distributiono Supply Chain Strategyo Customer Fulfillment and Deliveryo Product• Develop and manage financial updates for monthly and quarterly reporting deliverables including Global Inventory & Corporate Forecast reviews, Global, Regional and Executive S&OP meetings, Quarterly Business Review (QBR) etc.• Create dashboards to visually present metrics and key KPIs and use storytelling to highlight key takeaways and action items across regions, brands, and channels.

Portland, Oregon Area

Support business partners in Global Merchandising, Marketing, Regional Demand Planning, and Global Buying by providing end to end support and troubleshooting from a systems, tools, reporting and business process perspective. Provide reporting visibility and analytics to leadership and cross functional partners around regional and global business metrics including forecast, bookings, supply chain, key initiatives, and other S&OP KPIs. Participate in functional business requirement development and reporting implementation efforts across the global supply chain. Partner with analyst resources to coordinate the delivery of business solutions including testing and training to ensure business requirements are met.

Portland, Oregon Area

Data and project management with reporting responsibilities for the North America merchandising team.• Provide reporting and analysis based on sales performance, calculating margin, style productivity, GPM and account performance using Cognos, Excel and Access. • Digital merchandising for http://niketeam.com and catalog management for e-commerce. • Work with 3rd party vendor on creation of seasonal catalogs and product image management. • Provide systems and process knowledge for projects representing Nike Team Sports.

Portland, Oregon Area

Oversaw product setup and provide customer service for various business systems ensuring product market readiness. Systems lead on projects including SAP plant migration and MMX. Reporting and presentation creation for briefs, GTM and key accounts.• Created a system check process using Access for each season to improve system accuracy.• Created weekly dashboard showing product, category and style performance.• Helped define EPR/closeout process with Demand Planning.• Streamlined sales sample ordering process by evaluating system setup.• Earned recognition award from National Lacrosse sales team for contribution to success through reporting.

Product information management by season, color, style codes in multiple business systems. Maintain product information throughout merchandising & commercialization processes. Ensured data integrity between Nike and vendor systems. • Provide reports and analysis on merchandising product sales. • Ensure accuracy of seasonal catalog information. • Lead business representative for IT initiatives involving merchandising systems, PPS, JBA, Stadium MLP, WebBuilder (web based product ordering system).• Oversaw sample order process. • Worked with IT to create a push tool to connect two business systems to handle product population.• Discovered a 15% up-charge flag was not being setup for product for the previous two years and created process to automatically flag to not miss revenue.

Wilsoville, Or

Responsible for all aspects of licensing operations including training and transition of new generators. Oversaw analysts located in US, Japan and Ireland. Managed and maintained corporate license systems (32) and business processes. Worked with IT for reporting functionality in corporate systems. Department webmaster.• Communications conduit between finance, marketing, product groups and IT. • Chaired cross-functional meetings for new system design and enhancements. • Gathered and documented business and technical requirements. • Primary interface for IT team on systems integration of acquisitions. • Worked with IT to create a web-based reporting tool resulting in quicker, cleaner business data.• Managed project to reform security matrix for licensing in compliance of Sarbanes-Oxley• Core team member of group responsible for developing a single licensing system (AuthEx) that integrated over 32 legacy systems.

Wilsonville, Or

Production coordinator for CD and hardcopy manufacturing. Responsible for product setup in SAP. Managed software releases and customer updates. Participated in selecting new vendors. Maintained production databases for CD and documentation.• Realized a 42% cost reduction in CD manufacturing due to process improvement. • Realized department operations efficiency after management implemented own proposal of re-alignment/re-organization.

Ma, Pastoral Ministry

Ba, English

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