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Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

• Standardized and improved planning process resulted in 20% increase in service calls completion by service technicians.• Developed, tracked, and communicated monthly metrics to improve sales and operation planning process resulted in improved business decisions.

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

- Collaborated with the global and local leadership team to lead and improve monthly sales and operation planning (S&OP) meetings, which improved business forecast accuracy.- Analyzed and researched the input provided by cross-functional teams to build a sales strategy and gain consensus from all stakeholders to coordinate supply plans across all channels. - Developed Insight and recommendations by analyzing data, shopper insights and competitive trends to improve distribution, optimize pricing, gain shelving and enhance promotional strategy. - Continuously reviewed, evaluated and communicated monthly business scorecard to evaluate the effectiveness of plans.- Built standardized tools to present complex and detailed information to multiple audiences with differing knowledge levels within the organization, which increased the productivity of meetings moving forward.

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

- Lead monthly ES&OP meetings; work closely with sales, marketing, finance and senior leadership to bring a consensus on monthly targets for the Canadian business. - Be the voice of sales with manufacturing, logistics and global supply teams to plan, maintain and optimize inventory levels to meet customer needs.- Provide insightful details on the change in customer demand patterns to maintain warehouse inventory during seasonal changes and meet customer expectations.

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

- Optimize product placement in planogram to improve shopper's experience and Grow Category.- Recommended and executed efficient assortments, planogram developments and promotional analysis in order to maximize sales.- Developed rationale using industry databases and shoppers insights to gain incremental listings for brands resulting in category growth at key accounts.- Created category deck and new product launch deck with latest market, shopper and consumer’s trend to build fact based compelling selling rationale.- Developed Distribution, Pricing, Shelving and Merchandising (DPSM) strategy. - Presented complex and detailed information to multiple audiences with different knowledge levels

Toronto, Canada Area

- Successfully led Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) meetings to develop a long-term forecast with valid assumptions and plans. - Improved monthly/quarterly forecast to reach best-in-class 50:50 bias. (# of Sku’s over-shipped reduced from > 20% to < 5%).- Established and strengthened a process to gain visibility of 30:60:90 day plan at key customers on upcoming events. Improved supply chain efficiency and eliminated inventory constraints.- Developed and improved Demand Planning Scorecard for the team to attain efficient and accurate updates for key members of the leadership team.