ABIMBOLA YOADE
Cincinnati,OH
Summary
Detail-oriented corporate executive with extensive experience in logistics and supply chain management. Demonstrated success in driving cash efficiency and leading structural savings programs across diverse regions while enhancing customer satisfaction. Passionate about leveraging technology and process optimization to streamline operations and foster value creation.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Director - North America SUD (PODS)
Procter & Gamble
Cincinnati, Ohio
04.2025 - Current
- I am responsible for the overall North America SUD/ PODS business strategy integration serving as the link and modulator, connecting brand/commercial, Project & Initiatives, Engineering, Finance, Research & development, Packaging and Manufacturing teams.
- Leading Inventory (Days on hand & Free cash flow for the overall North America Fabric care business)
- Oversaw long-term capacity sufficiency and capital spend optimization to align resources with business needs.
- Managed customer service for total order flow, ensuring on-time and in-full delivery to enhance customer satisfaction.
- Cost - leading a robust net structural savings program (across Formulation, Packaging and Logistics),
Director, Global Supply Chain Operations
PROCTER and GAMBLE
07.2024 - Current
- Oversaw end-to-end free cash flow management, including financial forecasting, quarterly and fiscal year-end reconciliation, replenishment-centric loss analysis, unproductive inventory management, SKU portfolio optimization, and capability building through digitization.
- Oversaw the overall company raw, pack materials, and suppliers business continuity management program covering over 20 billion dollars in spending.
- Led the company in the risk-tiering raw, pack materials and suppliers; with business continuity plan properly created, tested and documented coupled with continuous improvement on digitization and automation.
- Developed new capabilities to enhance cash efficiency, defined ideal states, and created strategic vision for organization with focus on competitive positioning.
- Managed inventory control and oversight of 1.5 billion USD inventory.
- Expertise of cash and inventory management spans across raw and pack materials, intermediates, Finished goods, NOS and material in-transits and storeroom.
Director, Global International Trade
PROCTER and GAMBLE
01.2022 - 06.2024
- Responsible for defining and executing the compliance and overall company transportation governance process covering a spend of more than 500 million USD.
- Created and refreshed policies, standard operating procedures, and current best practices to enhance compliance and operational efficiency.
- Responsible for company global transportation risk assessments using different methods ranging from interviews, external benchmarking and consultations with multiple subject matter experts from tax, finance and government relations.
- Led company global transportation operations during COVID crisis, establishing hyper-care teams and war rooms to optimize cost and service across critical corridors.
- Coordinated benchmarking activities with external and internal stakeholders to analyze performance data and identify improvement opportunities.
- Responsible for monitoring, detecting and investigating deviations.
- Also acted as the consultants for fixing compliance outages while providing guidance to regional teams on audit remediations.
- Communicate risks to the company top management.
- Defined capability requirements and created formal training and qualifications for key regional and global roles.
Director, Supply Chain Operations (India, Middle East and Africa)
PROCTER and GAMBLE
09.2019 - 12.2021
- Responsible for defining and operating strategy between the commercial teams and the manufacturing teams.
- Responsible for a service and customer satisfaction across India, Middle east and Africa for a business of above 600 million USD.
- Responsible for creating value and driving cost efficiencies with a strong and robust 'war on waste' program driving a scarcity mindset using a replenishment-centric loss analysis and eventually lowering total delivery cost by more than 5% year on year.
- Responsible for regional financial cash flow forecast of around 100 million USD, inventory disposable expense of about 5 million USD, SKU portfolio optimization and elimination of unproductive inventory.
- Responsible for issue resolution on supply, demand, long range capacity planning and capital investments.
Director, Supply Chain Operations (West Africa Market Operations)
PROCTER and GAMBLE
01.2018 - 08.2019
- Overseeing end-to-end supply chain for 40 countries to deliver best in class service, structural cost, and cash within target for 150 million USD business.
- Responsible to lead a diverse team of 80 employees in multiple sites across demand, supply, customer logistics, digitization, transport, procurement and physical distribution and distribution center operations.
- Led transportation, physical distribution, and distribution center operations, managing international trade, transport, and a state-of-the-art distribution center.
- Led supply chain cash elements, managing finished goods and non-performing inventory processes to meet targets and contribute to bottom line results.
- Managed S&OP process, incorporating inputs from consumer knowledge teams to develop and confirm intelligence-based forecasts with sales, marketing, finance, and manufacturing teams.
- Led customer service operations team, ensuring timely order placement, managing account receivables, and delivering prompt supply within SLAs to create joint value with customers.
- Works closely with other function heads and part of the Leadership team, reporting directly to the West Africa general manager.
- Managed compliance by overseeing the global internal audit for order management processes in the region and serving as the SOP custodian for core market processes.
Director, Supply Chain Operations (Sub- Sahara Africa)
PROCTER and GAMBLE
10.2015 - 12.2017
- Responsible for leading, supervising and setting direction for the team that is responsible for supplying Fabric and Homecare products into Sub-Sahara Africa (West, East and South Africa) at reasonable cost and at target customer service level.
- Elevating potential supply issues and leading the team through timely and most efficient resolutions.
- Responsible for leading, supervising and directing the team responsible for product changes and launch (Initiatives management).
- Right from idea to product design, technical qualification, artwork changes and planning, until the products get to the shelves/consumer.
- Responsible for leading, supervising and directing the team that is responsible for negotiating favorable production/deployment plans with manufacturing managers of the factories supplying my markets.
- Leading and supervising the team that is responsible for delivering and optimizing cash/inventory targets of raw, pack materials and finished goods.
- Providing trainings and coaching to my team members on both technical and soft skills, developing people and raising capability.
Senior Manager, Supply Chain Product Change and Launch Management (India, Middle East and Africa)
PROCTER and GAMBLE
01.2014 - 09.2015
- Responsible for integrating initiatives, product changes, and other major changes into the supply chain (I was responsible for Fabric care and Home care businesses in India, Middle East and Africa).
- Responsible for leading the development of the supply network operations delivery critical path schedule (level 2), integrating all supply planning elements (Integrated planning, Distribution requirement planning, Material Supply management, Physical distribution, Customization Planning and Execution, Supply network Planning, Business planning, manufacturing site execution), packaging development lead-times (artwork critical path schedule) and country requirements (product samples, trade window, country regulation) into the delivery critical path schedule for the project.
- Responsible for ensuring supply network project results meet targets (Inventory, Customer Service, Supply network operations costs, Supply network operations quality, and Supply network operations schedule).
- Responsible for leading and ensuring that strategies for Phase-in phase-out and remnant handling are clear and properly documented in the project base plan and financial analysis.
- I was also accountable issuing regular updates and reports to the vice presidents and senior vice presidents.
- Responsible for leading investigations and developing corrective and preventive actions in case of product quality outage traceable to any of the steps in the execution of the project.
- I was also responsible for training and coaching of team members to ensure they have the right skills in delivering on their responsibilities.
Senior Regional Supply Chain Manager, (Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa)
PROCTER and GAMBLE
12.2010 - 12.2013
- Responsible for Leads capability work focused on reducing losses in areas impacted by category Supply Planning work process while optimizing cost, cash and time.
- Led standardization work and digitization.
- Responsible for long range category capacity planning to ensure that business needs are covered in the medium and long terms. (With adequate what-if planning scenarios) and recommendations on projected capital needs over 10 years.
- Responsible for supply chain loss analysis and deployment of enabling tools to achieve continuous inventory and cost reduction for the company.
Integrated Supply Chain Senior Planning Manager, (Nigeria)
PROCTER and GAMBLE
06.2008 - 11.2010
- Led the team to maintain the right level of case fill for service and on-time delivery to customers and distributors.
- Planned raw and pack materials logistics, overseeing ordering, documentation, importation, and customs clearance.
- Also responsible for the team planning the production and supply of finished goods in line with the demand.
- Led monthly S&OP cycle to ensure supply plans met sales targets.
- Led the team in planning, scheduling, and executing product changes and launches across the site.
- This team was also responsible for optimizing cost and cash across the entire supply chain.
- Developed operating strategy and site-level agreements among planning, sales, marketing, and manufacturing teams.
- Communicated critical issues and recommended resolutions to the vice presidents.
Purchasing Supply Chain Planning Manager, (Nigeria)
PROCTER and GAMBLE
04.2006 - 05.2008
- Developed a strategic material supply loss analysis focused on reducing supply chain time, cost, inventory, and overall efficiency.
- Developed supplier base assessment to create overall supplier strategy aligning with business needs, focusing on spend, complexity, and resilience.
- Owns, develops and maintains full SLEA (Site Level execution agreement) and associated scorecard to drive the suppliers in achieving set targets on reliability, cost, quality, agility and responsiveness.
- Owned and maintained supplier relationship management, driving projects and discussions to produce joint business plans that create mutual value.
- Owned and developed plans to improve key metrics using tools and tactics such as Cost CBA, Deliver to Demand, WALT, VSM, MST.
- Led annual strategic meetings with suppliers to provide feedback on strengths and opportunities, documenting aligned action plans.
Education
MBA -
Obafemi Awolowo University
Nigeria07-2008
Bachelor of Science - Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Obafemi Awolowo University
Nigeria08-2003
Skills
- Supply chain management
- Supplier relationship management
- Inventory control
- Supply chain risk
- Process optimization
- Data analysis
- Team leadership
Hobbies and Interests
- Discovering and learning new things.
- Meeting people.
Timeline
Director - North America SUD (PODS)
Procter & Gamble
04.2025 - Current
Director, Global Supply Chain Operations
PROCTER and GAMBLE
07.2024 - Current
Director, Global International Trade
PROCTER and GAMBLE
01.2022 - 06.2024
Director, Supply Chain Operations (India, Middle East and Africa)
PROCTER and GAMBLE
09.2019 - 12.2021
Director, Supply Chain Operations (West Africa Market Operations)
PROCTER and GAMBLE
01.2018 - 08.2019
Director, Supply Chain Operations (Sub- Sahara Africa)
PROCTER and GAMBLE
10.2015 - 12.2017
Senior Manager, Supply Chain Product Change and Launch Management (India, Middle East and Africa)
PROCTER and GAMBLE
01.2014 - 09.2015
Senior Regional Supply Chain Manager, (Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa)
PROCTER and GAMBLE
12.2010 - 12.2013
Integrated Supply Chain Senior Planning Manager, (Nigeria)
PROCTER and GAMBLE
06.2008 - 11.2010
Purchasing Supply Chain Planning Manager, (Nigeria)
PROCTER and GAMBLE
04.2006 - 05.2008
MBA -
Obafemi Awolowo University
Bachelor of Science - Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Obafemi Awolowo University