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New York City Metropolitan Area

Leader of Supply Chain Strategy team responsible for Unilever's 3 Home Care brands in North America (Seventh Generation, VIM, and The Laundress).Responsible for production network transformation projects to secure long term manufacturing capacity, partnerships with Contract Manufacturers, long term innovation strategy, and cost transformation projects.North American representative for integration with Global Home Care Supply Chain strategy.

Remote

Supported and led strategic workstreams for the Seventh Generation and Personal Care Liquids supply chains, with a focus on components (raw materials & packaging). Managing diverse project teams from R&D, Procurement, Engineering, Supply Chain Planning to execute major raw material changes and material handling capability expansions within Unilever North America’s factory network. Executed annual Long Term Capacity Plan forecast Personal Care Liquids manufacturing asset utilization over next 5 years.

Toronto, Canada Area

Managing local innovation for the Canadian business and supported Canadian portion of global Innovation projects. Managed project timelines to develop new innovations sourced from 3rd Party Manufacturers in North America, as well as Unilever factories in the Mexico, the U.S., and the U.A.E.. Experience working on Agile Scrum teams to complete major transformation projects.

Toronto, Canada Area

Front line supervisor of Margarine & Mayonnaise production floor with 9 Lines and upwards of 40 unionized team members per shift. Responsible for maintaining safety and quality standards during the shifts.Experience utilizing Kaizen methodology to analyze and action efficiency losses on individual machines in multi-step production process. Implemented digital knowledge management application to maintain consistent production during manpower transitions.

Toronto, Canada Area

Collaborative, Planning, Forecast, & Replenishment (CPFR) Analyst supporting Unilever's food, margarine, ice cream, and household cleaning business at Walmart. Requiring the management of Walmart's inventory replenishment at the SKU level using various system tools such RetailLink, Excel based tools, and SAP. This role drives Supply Chain activities; helping to meet customer in-stock goals, inventory targets, overall Sales goals, and maintain fill rates. The CPFR work optimizes Walmart's replenishment process and it ultimately benefits Unilever’s Supply Chain by generating a more accurate (baseline) customer forecast that can be used for internal planning. This position is the focal point of the tactical demand forecast at customer level. Working collaborative with with internal (Unilever Sales and Demand Planning teams), and external (Walmart Replenishment) stakeholders.

Toronto, Canada Area

Worked to execute Unilever's priorities at the retail level, and maintain on shelf availability for Unilever diverse product offering.

New York, New York, United States

Responsible for End to End Supply Chain of The Laundress Brand within Unilever Home Care.Leader of the operational team that manages Supply & Demand Planning, Order to Cash Management, and Logistics including DTC fulfilment.

Toronto, Canada Area

Currently creating one page manufacturing specification sheets for over 500 SKUs for machine operators to refer to during production runs. Cross-functional project requiring the collection and consolidation of large amounts of information from various sources within the company.

Toronto, Canada Area

Participated in the only structured internship program at the Canadian division of Nestlé, the worlds largest food company. Given significant responsibility to assist with the demand and supply planning for the launch of two major new products. Independently developed Excel based tools to track inbound and outbound logistics KPIs, evaluating the freshness of confectionary products as part of the Nestlé Continuous Excellence program. In the final month of the internship supported the creation of the following year’s full year forecast in the Coffee & Beverage department.

Toronto, Canada Area

Worked under Director of Supply Chain in developing sales, and raw material usage forecasts. Initiated projects that tracked the waste of packaging materials in manufacturing process, and resolved the overstocking of cardboard shipping boxes at the expense of finished goods warehouse space. Assisted with the annual update of Food Safety certifications.

Bachelor Of Commerce, Operations And Logistics

Activities and Societies: Sauder JDC West 2015 Team - Taxation Case Team - 3rd Place, UBC Commerce Undergraduate Society - Various.

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.)

Exchange program from the Sauder School of Business

High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates