Caleb Jones: Director of Operations
Caleb Jones
Director of Operations
United States
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Northland Fishing Tackle LLC
Director of Operations | 08/2015 - Current
Managed the day-to-day operations with our internal teams consisting of planning,
logistics, receiving, shipping and order fulfillment personal.
• Lead product development with internal team as well as domestic and foreign factories
from concept to production while finalizing specification adherence and costing.
• Lead yearly cost negotiation with all suppliers for carryover items of 3000+ sku's.
• Manage all purchasing of inventory while achieving Open to Buy, Turns, and Average
Inventory
• Defined Sales and Operations Planning with ownership to validate inventory to sales
goals are in line.
• Managed the Demand Planning of company's inventory based on historic sales data, future
sales targets and customer forecasts.
• Budgeting annual purchasing of inventory to align with KPI's for all channels of business.
• Primary contact with brokerage group and supply chain partners to achieve on time and in full
delivery of incoming and outgoing freight.
• Management of supplier group communication on all Operations details.
• Achieved improvement of 10% in fill rate while maintaining on target turns goal.
Cabela's Inc
Global Production Specialist | 12/2010 - 08/2015
Lead yearly apparel cost negotiation on $50M+ seasonal revenue goods with production
factories for Cabela's branded product.
• Lead on operational side of the product development calendar each season from conception
to commercialization with internal stakeholders, Hong Kong office, raw material and finished
goods suppliers.
• Managed cross department communication to ensure on time development and delivery of product while achieving cost targes associated with each product.
• Partnered with the technical design team on product development with total cost of goods,
manufacturing functionality and quality as the end goals.
• Point of contact with suppliers and fabric mills in multiple countries on capacity, future
production, and COGS reduction by consolidation.
Cabela's Inc
Assortment and Inventory Analyst | 05/2005 - 12/2010
Analyzed 3000+ sku's equating to $100M in sales to partner with Merchandising to decide on
best overall buying plan for all channels of business.
• Forecasted total demand of assortment, both branded and private label goods, for multichannel retailer that reconciled with top-down financial plans.
• Partnered with retail counterpart to ensure inventory availability of 95% fill rate in goods for retail stores as well as website and catalog sales.
• Managed the Demand Planning of company's inventory based on historic sales data, future
sales targets and internal channel forecasts.