Data-Driven Decision-Making: Conducted deep dives into complex data sets to uncover actionable insights, driving strategic decisions that improved EBITDA by $1.5M.
Strategic Financial Planning: Spearheaded development of annual financial plans, budgets, and forecasts, achieving a 15% reduction in forecast variances through enhanced accuracy.
Sales Performance Enhancement: Sales Analyzed sales and profitability metrics by customer and segment, identifying opportunities that resulted in a 20% revenue growth in underperforming areas.
Executive Insight: Provided executive leadership with data-driven recommendations, directly contributing to long-term growth and profitability.
Business Intelligence: Conducted variance analyses to identify deviations from budgets and forecasts, driving actionable recommendations to optimize costs and revenue streams.

Forecasting Enhancement: Utilized advanced forecasting techniques, including a variety of predictors to anticipate demand, calculate safety stock levels, and set reorder points resulting in a 30% decrease in dead stock inventory more accurately.
Operational Savings: Redesigned warehouse processes, strategically increasing pallet picks and reducing physical handling, leading to over $1.5M in labor savings and a significant reduction in shrink.
Warehouse Optimization: Conducted in-depth analyses of operations, then designed and implemented layers-per-pallet optimization while saving $1.7M in labor and maximizing warehouse space utilization.
Risk Assessment Techniques: Applied quantitative and qualitative risk assessment techniques to preemptively identify potential setbacks, enhancing project reliability.
P&L Impact: Devised and executed case pick and replenishment process improvements, boosting warehouse productivity, and positively impacting the P&L by over $4.3M.

Continuous Improvement Leadership: Championed the adoption of the enterprise Continuous Improvement Program, aligning it with the Operational Excellence Roadmap and driving organizational change.
Performance Metrics Development: Led the development and implementation of performance metrics for a warehouse zoning optimization project, saving over $2M across 13 distribution centers.
Efficiency Enhancements: Implemented a Kanban system to optimize inventory levels and manage production flows, resulting in a 20% increase in process efficiency and a 25% reduction in holding costs.
Team Leadership and Development: Led and mentored a team of 3 Operations Optimization Analysts, focusing on productivity management, rewards, recognition, and performance management.
On Time Delivery: Developed software to detect dimensional discrepancies between WMS and SAP resulting in a weekly savings of 102,000 cubic feet of trailer space and 116 hours of rework during loading.

Revenue Generation: Collaborated on cost-saving initiatives, enabling the purchase of a $400K CNC machine, subsequently generating $3M in new revenue streams.
Production Yield Improvement: Enhanced rolled throughput yield by over 50%, decreasing non-value-added time by 13%+ and implementing 6 sigma processes.
Visionary Planning: Developed and implemented program strategies that supported business objectives, leading to a 30% improvement in productivity and a 25% reduction in costs over four years.
Variance Analysis: Led monthly financial close processes, producing variance reports that identified deviations from forecasts and budgets, enabling corrective actions and strategic adjustments.
Inventory Management: Managed over $4.5M in inventory, optimizing levels through the development and implementation of sophisticated forecasting logic and models.