Justin Genzo
Summit,NJ
Summary
Accomplished Inventory Manager with 10 years of experience optimizing supply chain operations and driving cost-effective solutions. Proficient in inventory control, demand forecasting, and supplier relationship management. Proven ability to analyze data, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions to optimize inventory levels and minimize costs.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Director, Release Management
Sony Music Entertainment
07.2021 - 08.2024
- Head of AWAL US Release Management Team.
- Line management experience in training, hiring and providing career growth to the US Release Management team.
- Forecasting product needs for domestic and international distribution.
- Inventory management and stock control for US distribution.
- Cross-departmental teamwork with sales, finance, marketing, licensing, ad, creative, and legal teams to ensure business needs are met.
- Managing logistics globally between manufacturers to ensure raw and finished product ships to necessary locations that include direct to consumer and retail.
- Conflict resolution leader resolving high level operational issues.
- Recognized shipping overcharges with AWAL’s transportation vendors, worked with SME to terminate AWAL’s isolated contracts and migrated AWAL into SME’s global supply chain, resulting in $50k - $60k in shipping savings per order.
- Collaborate with Operations and Commercial teams on made to order and made to stock products.
- Calculating CPU’s for variants of products to accurately price for retail and D2C.
- Cultivating relationships with manufacturing brokers, transportation (domestic and international) and warehouses to establish new business and decrease production costs.
- Experience in managing purchase orders that are valued in the $600k - $2 million range.
- Proficient in SAP and Console for invoicing external partners.
- Maintain metadata for all AWAL US products to ensure demand propagation and supply planning in SME’s proprietary inventory supply chain system.
- Compile raw data reports from master data sheet with all inventory SKU’s and stock levels into an organized format for leadership pertaining to manufacturing, sales, and item reports.
Manager, Supply Chain Operations
BMG Rights Management
10.2018 - 07.2021
- Managed all repertoire for BMG by ingesting assets from partners and acquisitions into the supply chain systems.
- Collaborated with developers to improve BMG’s supply chain systems.
- Owned product updates from distributors.
- Lead the data coordinator team to successfully disperse workloads and streamline workflow processes.
- Managed and owned BMG’s global supply chain schedule.
- Lead on content management projects by reviewing clients contracts to find termination dates in order to issue contractual takedowns of repertoire from digital retailers.
- Improved workflow and stream lined processes resulting in efficiencies downstream.
- Created a workflow that benefits BMG’s US finance, royalties, marketing and supply chain teams by connecting clients products to their contracts. Solving payment suspense for external partners.
Coordinator, Supply Chain Operations
BMG Rights Management
01.2016 - 10.2018
- Acquired clients assets to input data into BMG’s supply chain system.
- Managed all metadata for BMG’s respective label clients; Rise Records, Broken Bow Records, Wheelhouse Records, Stoney Creek Records, S-Curve Records, Vagrant Records, The End Records, BMG Australia and Soundstage.
- Created and issued UPC's and ISRCS in BMG’s supply chain systems to send to Artist Management, Product Managers and A&R.
Assistant, Sync Operations Global
BMG Rights Management
09.2014 - 01.2016
- Provided support to the SVP of Sync Operations.
Education
Bachelor of Arts -
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Mahwah, NJSkills
- Logistics
- Manufacturing
- Supply Chain Operations
- Inventory Management
- Logistics Scheduling
- Project Management
- Inventory Distribution
- Vendor Relationship Management
Tools
- Microsoft Office Suite
- SAP
- Console
- META Ad Manager
Timeline
Associate Director, Release Management
Sony Music Entertainment
07.2021 - 08.2024
Manager, Supply Chain Operations
BMG Rights Management
10.2018 - 07.2021
Coordinator, Supply Chain Operations
BMG Rights Management
01.2016 - 10.2018
Assistant, Sync Operations Global
BMG Rights Management
09.2014 - 01.2016
Bachelor of Arts -
Ramapo College of New Jersey
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