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Chicago, Illinois, United States

HAVI focuses on innovating, optimizing and managing the supply chains of leading brands. I lead a diverse global team of over 50 professionals in the creation, management, and delivery of event forecasts, demand, and supply plans for our QSR clients. Maintained direct P&L responsibility by negotiating, achieving, and reporting on compensable measures with key customer stakeholders. Fostering a culture of growth, mentoring, and high performance within my team.• Oversee and improve financial performance by aligning team outputs with company financial goals, enhancing overall profitability.• Establish and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, influencing client engagement strategies and service delivery improvements.• Develop and execute strategic cost-saving measures, directly contributing to improved profitability and operational sustainability• Effectively manage supply chain disruptions during critical periods, ensuring continuity and resilience in service delivery.• Champion DE&I initiatives within the team, integrating key inclusive practices in team development to enrich team dynamics and performance• Lead the requirement definition, testing, and adoption of advanced analytical and planning tools, improving operational efficiencies and capabilities within our client offerings.• Enhance team capability to manage high-impact projects, ensuring delivery of digital planning services with increased efficiency and accuracy.• Direct the integration and optimization of S&OP processes across the delivery team, enhancing operational alignment with market demands.• Spearhead change management initiatives within the organization, improving the confidence in, and accuracy of our supply chain outputs to ensure higher client satisfaction and operational excellence.

Downers Grove, Illinois, United States

Manage a mid-sized team of data analysts and planners supporting the McDonald’s supply chain end to end from supplier to distribution center to restaurant. Maintained the achievement and reporting on compensable measures with key customer stakeholders. Led cross-company, collaborative project teams to enable process improvement and improved ways of working. Key Accomplishments: • Continuously developed and coached team members through regular 1:1s, their individual development plans, providing feedback, performance reviews, and mentoring to help realize their medium- and long-term career goals.• Responsible for 4 distinct areas of our supply chain. Regularly engaged with key internal and external stakeholders, negotiating compensation, updating on key performance, new initiatives, and opportunities.• Managed our go-to-market strategy for how we identify potential new customers, define offerings and strategy to expand our business in supply chain management.• Fostered adoption of new technologies and analytics by promoting change management best practices to build new expertise and achieve higher accuracy and stability within the supply chain. • Designed and adopted a platform to provide recognition and positive encouragement between peers and cross functional teams• Directed crisis management during early stages of COVID pandemic to rapidly adapt our supply chain agility and resiliency to support our customers’ needs.

Downers Grove, Il

I manage JDA-based automated purchasing system operations for items sold at 14,000 McDonald's restaurants and 33 DCs. I drive efficiency and process optimization on a daily basis, identifying client requirements, collaborating with developers to evaluate resources, and managing prioritization among internal and external stakeholders. I use Tableau, Power BI, and SQL for data insights leading to tactical forecasting and better resource preparation, and I create testing to align technology solutions to business initiatives for each project.

Greater Chicago Area

As a primary point of escalation for DC communication among internal and external stakeholders, I take a proactive approach to clearly communicating business requirements, solutions, and optimizations. In managing projects nationwide, I track project updates and KPIs for a JDA based automated purchasing system deployment, and perform business validation sessions to align technology solutions to business initiatives. I also continuously develop process improvements, facilitate regular client meetings, and design training and supplemental tools to improve the accuracy of multiple internal processes.Key Accomplishments: • Identified improvements to the automated system, improving usability and enabling enhanced functionality.• Designed freight optimization solution that realized annual savings of $10M annually.

Downers Grove, Il

As a consultant for HAVI through LaSalle Network, I planned and managed regional and national product launches throughout a network of 14,000 McDonald's restaurants. I also oversaw 33 distribution centers through multiple product transitions and 3 launches. I directed the planning, production schedules, and quantities in order to create contingency plans, and to mitigate production and material challenges. I collaborated cross-functionally with planning, sourcing, marketing, and central planning teams on a variety of supplier issues and mitigation techniques.Key Accomplishments: • Created supplier production plan to support high-end sales potential while mitigating obsolescence costs. • Planned and managed national launch phased over 9 months, reducing transition costs.

Rosemont, Il

I was promoted to develop and lead merchandising strategy, including direct P&L responsibility and operations for all shelf-stable food and nonfood categories. I worked cross-functionally to execute on-site merchandising strategy, and managed 40+ vendor relationships, resulting in an expanded assortment, cost reduction, and improved operational efficiencies. Key Accomplishments: • Achieved 14% YoY aggregate increase in category sales and 8% increase in YoY margin targets. • Improved profitability by reviewing competitive pricing regularly.

Rosemont, Il

I developed and presented monthly category insights, trends, opportunities to stakeholders, and evaluated sales quantities, customers, and overall profitability to improve promotional tactics. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, I also identified assortment gaps and new vendor opportunities while determining complementary pricing and offerings to optimize sales.

Rosemont, Il

Responsible for purchasing boxed beef SKUs across multiple southwest U.S. divisions, I evaluated procurement alternatives to ensure fulfillment of service level goals across category. I also collaborated with category managers and vendors to gather market data and make market-driven buying decisions.

Chicago, Il

As manager of 500+ SKUs in 30 warehouses, I consistently ensured on-time delivery, proper pricing, and appropriate inventory levels. I also negotiated marketing terms, logistics costs, and increased sales and gross profit beyond budgeted projections.

Greater Chicago Area

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Applied Computer Science

Master Of Science - Ms, Data Analytics