IAN ARANJO
Oakville,Ontario
Summary
Innovative Supply Chain & Procurement leader with 15+ years of experience across Manufacturing & Retail industries. Detail-oriented, attentive and decisive leader having experience managing teams of 3 to 7 . Currently managing a combined portfolio of USD $250Mil across multiple categories. Develops and executes category and commodity strategies, negotiates and awards supplier contracts and conducts commodity and supplier business reviews.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
AMAZON.Sr, CATEGORY MANAGER
GLOBAL PROCUREMENT
07.2021 - Current
- Establishing strong relationships with internal business stakeholders; building strong understanding of strategic business direction, requirements and priorities across assigned suppliers and/or spend categories
- Developing global sourcing strategies to deliver against business objectives for internal clients
- Evaluating supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and bench-marking analysis
- Managing fundamentals of sourcing and supplier engagement activities including RFx, spend pattern analysis, contract analysis, bid evaluation, negotiations, and supplier consolidation
- Work with business and finance leaders to identify and drive savings and controllership improvements, focusing on total cost of ownership
- Providing guidance to internal stakeholders on procurement strategies; maintaining procurement ethics in accordance with Amazon's global policies
- Prepare and hold business reviews with stakeholders to review vendor performance, future opportunities, and/or challenges.
PROCUREMENT PROGRAM MANAGER
AMAZON LOGISTICS
06.2020 - 06.2021
- Define business requirements, design and implement processes, and manage operational performance through dashboards and reporting
- Engaged and worked alongside cross-functional stakeholders to manage strategic initiatives.
- New launch support working cross functionally to ensure vendor allocation and equipment installation within expected timelines
- Work directly with external service providers and partner teams to craft and deliver scalable solutions
- Scoping and creating project plans, developing processes, coordinating implementation, building audit mechanisms and communicating to senior management on status, risks and program changes
- Promote data-driven decision making across team, using tools such as Tableau, SQL, Excel and others
- Participated in vendor selection and management process for program initiatives.
PROCUREMENT OPERATIONS MANAGER
AMAZON CANADA FULFILLMENT
04.2018 - 06.2020
- Lead procurement operations for all sites, including: forecasting of non-inventory products, inventory management, non-inventory flow and space models, cycle counts, supplier management, escalation management, procurement transaction and expediting support
- Lead QBRs, weekly and monthly operational review with strategic external partners
- Manage related KPI to measure, control and benchmark procurement processes including creation of recurring metrics reports
- Conduct site visits and audit processes and reporting to ensure compliance as well as identify areas for continuous improvement
- Manage and maintain supplier scorecards
- Ensure adherence to Amazon's global spend policy and driving compliance to local Procurement policies and procedures
SUPPLY CHAIN REPLENISHMENT MANAGER
LOBLAW COMP. LTD
04.2013 - 03.2018
- Work with Director to provide strategic and tactical leadership for team
- Oversee team of five Inventory Analysts and two Demand Planners in day to day forecasting, tracking, and creation of purchase orders for all merchandise types using various order systems to effectively flow inventory to warehouses and stores for assigned departments
- Provide team with analytical and strategic support by creating and sharing regular and ad hoc reports as required
- Work closely with Category teams to coordinate promotional forecasts as well as volume related issues
- Work with team, category (BU) and internal/external stakeholders to resolve issues/initiatives as arise
- Manage and hold vendors accountable on fill rate, lead-time, and store level in-stock by generating and analyzing vendor forecasts and holding vendor meetings to communicate expected future merchandise demand and resolution of issues
- Develop, coach, and manage performance of team ensuring they have appropriate tools and resources to perform their role.
IPFR - SR. BUSINESS INTEGRATION ANALYST
LOBLAW COMP. LTD, SAP
10.2011 - 04.2013
- Working on SAP conversion project team, helping to design and test new supply chain system
- Conduct risk/benefit analysis and present information in supporting recommendations to stakeholders
- Work with functional analysts to create SOPs based on Business Requirements
- Working with Organization Change team in presenting back to end user, impact and new Day In Life to end users
- Lead on various projects in roll out of new JDA buying system and SAP/IPFR for Supply Chain including Pricing, Process Mapping, Reporting & New Item Introductions/Tracking
- Coaching and training new buyers as they roll out on new SAP system
SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYST
LOBLAW COMP. LTD
01.2009 - 10.2011
- Coordinate with Local and overseas vendors to make sure inventory levels and lead times are maintained for inventory at all Distribution Centers nationally across Canada
- Managed ordering and fulfillment of store demand to ensure that appropriate quantities are available to meet expected demand
- Managed Opportunity buys and Forced Distributions for Category
- Work with Business Units to generate accurate forecasts using past sales history and future planned promotions
- Maintaining and buying inventory of multiple desks in Meat / Seafood for all Loblaw, Zehrs, Maxi, Fortinos, Value Mart, Superstores & No Frills stores across Eastern & Atlantic Canada
- Worked with vendors/suppliers to manage in-stock performance of private label/corporately-owned inventory and minimize aged and excess product.
SUPPLY CHAIN / LOGISTICS ANALYST
3M GULF LTD
07.2007 - 08.2008
- Coordinate with 3M manufacturing factories worldwide to make sure inventory levels and lead times are maintained for customers
- Work with Categories to generate most accurate forecast based on sales history and future planned promotions
- Coordinate with Sales teams to process orders from clients
- Follow up with 3M factories worldwide to make sure production is on schedule
- Identify risks to supply and implement corrective actions
- Review Sleeping / Dead stock on timely basis and liaise with sales team to make sure orders are received primarily for these items.
Education
LEAN SIX SIGMA -
University of Toronto
Mississauga2017
POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA - MARKETING MANAGEMENT
Seneca College
Toronto2005
BACHELOR OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES -
Mumbai University
Mumbai2002
Skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Strategic Sourcing & Category Development
- SAP & JDA Supply Chain system
- Superior written & oral communication with effective presentation skills
- Experienced with MS Office Professional, including Windows, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio, ORACLE & COUPA
Key Achievements
Compliance : Master Work Order executed for Snow Removal & Landscape categories with the 3 largest suppliers in the US & Canada (USD$175 MM combined spend).
Cost Savings : Creation and launch of a 3-year regional strategy and tender roadmap to address all business lines and facilitate scale. Negotiated two discounts as part of this Master Work Order, Annual Spend Discount & Annual Scope Efficiency Discount with a total savings impact of US $15MM annually.
Cost Avoidance : US $760K for Landscape category. Negotiated the fuel surcharge down to 2% from the proposed 10% and thus provide a 8% Cost Avoidance for the Category up until end of 2025.
Diversity & Small Business Spend: Partnered with Amazon's Supplier Diversity & Inclusion team to support two of the Snow Removal category's largest suppliers in the US & Canada with getting them certified as Diverse suppliers. Led the sourcing initiative to onboard Diverse & Small business suppliers for the Fire & Life Safety category and was successful in bringing on two National suppliers which now contribute 10% of the category's total spend for 2023.
Timeline
AMAZON.Sr, CATEGORY MANAGER
GLOBAL PROCUREMENT
07.2021 - Current
PROCUREMENT PROGRAM MANAGER
AMAZON LOGISTICS
06.2020 - 06.2021
PROCUREMENT OPERATIONS MANAGER
AMAZON CANADA FULFILLMENT
04.2018 - 06.2020
SUPPLY CHAIN REPLENISHMENT MANAGER
LOBLAW COMP. LTD
04.2013 - 03.2018
IPFR - SR. BUSINESS INTEGRATION ANALYST
LOBLAW COMP. LTD, SAP
10.2011 - 04.2013
SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYST
LOBLAW COMP. LTD
01.2009 - 10.2011
SUPPLY CHAIN / LOGISTICS ANALYST
3M GULF LTD
07.2007 - 08.2008
LEAN SIX SIGMA -
University of Toronto
POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA - MARKETING MANAGEMENT
Seneca College
BACHELOR OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES -
Mumbai University
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