Roman Hanson: in Renton, WA

• Manage supplier relationships and lead regular business reviews • Identify new suppliers to better fulfill company goals • Oversee both direct and indirect sourcing events, including packaging items and a new company run warehouse • Create policies related to inventory flow and usage • Generate the forecasts for components and finished good production.

• Work with crossfunctional teams in direct and indirect sectors to create and administer RFXs, both for clients and Denali projects. • Advise stakeholders on sourcing best practices, in market trends, and savings opportunities. • Provide analytics summarizing savings, baselines, and supplier performance. • Mentor junior team members, with a goal of improving their supplier and client engagement abilities as well as technical skills.

Create, develop, and analyze reports in Access and Excel to accurately measure inventory age, shipping consolidation, price optimization • Automate existing manual reporting to improve efficiency and provide client service representatives with the right tools to provide our clients with up-to-date, in-depth, cost benefit information • Partner with our IT team in the deployment of a new MySQL server and report migration from the existing Unix server

• Develop the monthly buy plan for the buyer/planners to execute and predict where and when the spend will occur • Create new tools to optimize the purchasing process, automating many manual tasks and standardizing data extraction • Analyze supply chain data to find opportunities to direct data cleanup efforts and optimize the MRP/ERP

Provide detailed analysis and projections for zulily's character and sports franchise licensed products, for both new and existing licenses and products. • Build prototype tools, companywide internal websites, and data models using SQL and Python. • Create custom Tableau reports to add in the visualization of data, for both desktop and published/web client users. • Mentor and train new team members as well as coach existing Planning Analyst in the technical and soft skills need for promotion and eventual category management.

• Lead initiatives to improve key metrics such inventory levels, lead times and sales conversion. • Negotiate increased marketing funding and exclusive/early released products. • Serve as an adviser and strategic planner for the Health and Personal Care operations team.

• Identify and on-board key Weight Loss vendors, generating an additional $30 million in revenue at over a 100% YoY growth Develop analytics tools to identify emerging trends. • Develop inventory plans for high velocity items and brands to prevent inventory shortages.