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Category Manager at Kent Building Supplies
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 11 work roles 3 schools
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John Paul is listed as Category Manager at Kent Building Supplies, a with 1570 employees, based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for John Paul.

John Paul previously worked as Project Specialist - Growth and Strategy at Saint John Region Chamber Of Commerce and Inventory Planning Manager at Anko. John Paul holds Executive Mba, Business/Commerce, General from Alliance Business School.

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Summary: In my current role, I drive inventory, demand & fulfillment requirements for the OMNI channel business for Target Australia. Delivering inventory optimization plans across our stores and online customer fulfillment centers. I also lead the overall Target Allocation automation excellence team that delivers allocation processes with reduced cost and optimized inventory planning. Part of a $2B AUD retail business that ensures affordable quality and fashion to our customers in Australia and working with highly committed Merchandise partners across TSSO (Target Australia HQ) and buying\sourcing teams across Asia. My work ensures commitment to maximizing efficiency, reducing business costs, and ensuring seamless inventory flow. Extensive experience in implementing inventory strategies, driving process improvements, and fostering collaborative relationships with global cross-functional teams.Our values drive our culture at what we believe is ethical in delivering our core responsibility in everyday business:**We're proud of our products, We delight our customers every day, we're all in it together, We do the right thing, we're hungry to succeed, and We embrace digital innovation**Profile Summary: Dynamic well-organized Inventory Planning & optimization Manager with comprehensive technical knowledge and extensive Supply Chain, inventory, replenishment, and procurement management experience for a multinational retail corporation. Adept in reviewing and analyzing operational reports and plans, inventory demand, planned requirements, and other data to determine and advise on the compatibility of planned support programs.

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Kent Building Supplies
Kent Building Supplies
Category Manager
Saint John, NB, CA
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1570
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Inventory Planning Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

(Previously called as KAS services & rebranded to anko now). Driving global inventory capabilities from Bangalore for our K-mart group, supporting directly Target Australia with inventory optimization channels and process automation capabilities from the GCC.

Allocation Manager

Greater Bengaluru Area

Mar 2019 - Apr 2021

Team Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Nov 2018 - Mar 2019

Operations Manager

Bengaluru Area, India

Position Highlights:• I Manage the pricing operations team directly managing a team of 20.• Driving production, quality and audit needs for the team. Managing performance and leveraging upskilling needs for the team.• Working with retail parent team from NA region supporting the pricing intitiatives to ensure sharp prices and drive greater customer experiance.Drive price sharpness for Mexico Hardlines and Softlines category (21 Sub categories), which ranges thousands of products from Consumer electronics, life style, fashion & clothing and other hardlines.Working with Tech and Non-Tech function to meet Monthly/quarterly goals by connecting with various business stakeholders.

Jul 2017 - May 2018

Manager

Bengaluru Area, India

Jun 2017 - May 2018

Lead

Bengaluru Area, India

TESCO Bengaluru. July 2010 – Present 2017 Team/Process/Department: UK General Merchandise forecasting and ordering (July 2016 – At present) 6 months Designation: Lead OperationsProfile A short stint to manage a well-established process for Streamlining 6 year old ordering and forecasting teams, I was responsible to manage 4 different categories of hard lines which includes toys/nursery/recreation/stationery categories. Which includes 12 team members (12 FTE’s) Ordering and forecasting future demand and stock requirement based on stock cover/stock budgets with 2% error rate. Managing purchase order requisites and supplier interaction on order fulfillment. Work allocation/promotional stock requirement and adjustments, thereby on a periodic basis raising 5000 purchase orders approximately valuing £ 50, 00,000 which includes regular and promotional/seasonal stock requirements. Managing availability, out of stock, failed to arrive at depots, supplier non deliveries and non-conformance. Work allocation through adroit and ensuring productive effectiveness of the team members Maintain availability of all stock above 95% and “on-shelf availability and out of stock less than 5% WOW” analysis. Motivate team members to improve morale, performance for better ordering availability/reward top performance.

Jul 2016 - Jun 2017

Lead

Bengaluru Area, India

Supply Chain, Operations Management, Inventory Management, Vendor Management and Ordering Management.Team/Process/Department: Supply Chain Central Europe (January 2014 – at present) Designation: Promoted to Lead (Current Designation: LEAD)Profile• After successfully delivering my individual’s and the team’s objectives, with my overall annual performances from previous cycle was “exceeded performance”, I was nominated to the options of “Lead” program at Tesco. I cleared the assessment process and was promoted to Lead.• Driving various supply chain KPIs like, Stock holding in value at depot, Depot space management, store on shelf availability, performance of promotions at stores. Preparation of Overall performance pack for supply chain.• Vendor and supplier management which explored in making changes to process from time to time and business to business.• Costing and budget management.• Project management on standardizing KPIs in supply chain, Report rationalization and people engagement programs.• Restructuring ways of working and implementing changes to achieve targets on OOS, overall shortage percentage on products at depot, availability at stores, managing stock holding in values at depot by effective order management techniques.• Periodic stakeholder and senior leadership operations review with KPIs and people performances • My role was evolved from managing the process to managing the people who drive the business. I was responsible for creating the Objectives for the officers and Sr officers in the team for each year which is relevant to a competitive business environment to scale up better performances.• Performance appraisals annual review discussions with team members alongside with regular performance discussions

Jan 2014 - Jun 2016

Senior Analyst

Bengaluru Area, India

Designation: Analyst Profile• Led the Pilot batch for transitioning the Supply chain ordering and reporting process from Slovakia to Bangalore office.• Due diligence and process mapping for supply chain operations.• Travelled to Slovakia for period of 3 months being part of transition team, transferred roles to Bangalore office for ordering and reporting departments as part of knowledge transfer program. Creating standard operating procedure for the processes that were transitioned. Acquainted new recruits with training needs to stabilize all activities.• Ensured managing daily ordering process and KPI deliverables, responsibility of maintaining the key KPI drivers for business are met by the individuals in the team.• From the successful transition that was delivered, business was set right with the right people and thereby I was promoted to Senior to manage the complete ordering process from start to end.• Cross functional training on the best practices of the business to various other teams.• Vendor management and functional order management expert was my key strength and main objective.• Quality maintenance and streamlining ordering and reporting process was key objective under the new role.• Ownership of handling audit mechanism to deliver 100% of quality and service level agreements on time with our customers/stakeholders/suppliers.• Responsible to report Step change and root cause analyses on all ordering areas. Implementation of various innovative ideas to mitigate issues.• Overall governance on all business KPIs, achieving the core objective of the business year on year, ensured collective effort on displaying positive work culture to determine the best output.

Jul 2010 - Jan 2014

Analyst

Bengaluru Area, India

Team/Process/Department: Loss mitigation Default Associates Designation: Associate Profile• Reviewing the past records of the Borrower• Analyzing the financial status and the other income related aspects of the borrower • As per requirement of the borrower or as per the loan history, perform the necessary program & determine the behavior of the borrower in the process of Loan Modification.• Creating work flow for the underwriters in the process of Loan Modification.• Ascertain the load defaulters and fraudster’s monthly financial statement, review and mitigate loss.

Jun 2009 - Jun 2010
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3 education records

John Paul education

Executive Mba, Business/Commerce, General

Activities and Societies: Product building, Data analytics integration

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting And Finance

Christ University

Activities and Societies: Community Services and social welfare groups. I was part of community social welfare organisation committee.

High School

St Lourdes School
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John Paul works for Kent Building Supplies.

What is John Paul's role at Kent Building Supplies?

John Paul is listed as Category Manager at Kent Building Supplies.

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John Paul is based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India while working with Kent Building Supplies.

What companies has John Paul worked for?

John Paul has worked for Kent Building Supplies, Saint John Region Chamber Of Commerce, Anko, Ascena, and Honeywell.

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John Paul's colleagues at Kent Building Supplies include Anuja Elizabeth Mathai, Brennen Currie, Hazem Al-Nasleh, Anil Kaiprambattu Shaju, and Tim Wilson.

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John Paul holds Executive Mba, Business/Commerce, General from Alliance Business School.

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