Nikita Hills
Hatfield,Hertfordshire
Summary
Highly skilled professional with a strong aptitude for decision-making and collaborative negotiation. Proficient in demand analysis, Microsoft Office, Google Suite, OSP, JIRA, Workday, and Greenhouse. Demonstrates exceptional problem-solving abilities, adaptability, and time-keeping skills. Committed to leveraging expertise to drive organisational success and achieve career growth in a dynamic environment.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Demand planner
Ocado Logistics
Hatfield, Herts
03.2024 - Current
- Oversee the Fresh and Chill teams seasonal forecasting, ensuring 16 DP's are on track with their ordering and helping overcome any obstacles.
- Acting as the first point of contact to resolve supply chain issues swiftly with any seasonal planning for the Fresh and Chill team.
- Using Excel, tableau and other data analysis to ensure accuracy when reporting on ATP.
- Focus on accurate forecasting, avoided unnecessary purge and maximise profits for both Ocado and the suppliers.
- Facilitated cross-functional communication to align production schedule with sales forecast.
- Collaborated with buyers and senior leadership to ensure long term forecasts are on target
- Liase with suppliers and buyers to onboard new suppliers and guide them through the processes, to ensure their success.
- Use data-driven insights to meet critical KPIs and optimise performance
- Give guided tours around our CFC's for our suppliers.
- Daily deep dives in tools to help understand any discrepancies within ATP.
- Keep track of daily trends, historical data and key seasonal trends to help forecast, to ensure customer demand is met.
- Collaborate with analysts to ensure data is used efficiently when long term planning.
- Worked closely with the supply chain team, ensured seamless flow of goods from supplier to warehouse.
Partner Success Manager
Ocado Solutions
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
09.2023 - 03.2024
- Stakeholder Management
- Leading deployments and operational go lives for OSP features and products
- Providing operational coaching, advice, and guidance
- Supporting the sharing of operational optimization and best practice information
- Analyzing partner use of OSP through regular operational metric analysis
- Supporting multiple operational issues that retail partners face
- Driving performance improvement with strong ownership and partnership
- Implemented innovative business strategies to outperform market competition.
Demand planner
Ocado Logistics
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
03.2023 - 09.2023
- Work with suppliers for water and soft drinks in ambient
- Use data-driven insights to create accurate forecasts for products, product lines and services
- Mapping forecasts against inventory needs
- Built strong relationships with suppliers and buyers
- Be the first point of contact to resolve supply chain issues with my suppliers
- Collaborate with commercial teams to stay ahead of market trends
- Using data-driven insights to meet critical KPIs and optimize performance
Talent acquisition specialist
Ocado Group
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
09.2022 - 03.2023
- Implemented diversity and inclusion practices within hiring processes fostering a balanced workplace environment.
- Fostered positive candidate relationships throughout the recruitment cycle, thus enhancing employer branding.
- Ensured compliance with employment laws during all stages of recruitment process.
- Utilised applicant tracking system efficiently for seamless management of applications.
- RTW checks
- Auditing all RTW checks for employees on work visas
- Data analysis on salaries throughout the company - to find cost savings
Education
Master of Arts - Geography
University of St Andrews
St Andrews 09.2018 - 06.2022
Skills
- Decision-Making aptitude
- Collaborative negotiation
- Demand analysis
- Microsoft Office
- Google Suite
- OSP
- JIRA
- Workday
- Greenhouse
- Problem solver
- Adaptability
- Time keeping
Timeline
Demand planner
Ocado Logistics
03.2024 - Current
Partner Success Manager
Ocado Solutions
09.2023 - 03.2024
Demand planner
Ocado Logistics
03.2023 - 09.2023
Talent acquisition specialist
Ocado Group
09.2022 - 03.2023
Master of Arts - Geography
University of St Andrews
09.2018 - 06.2022
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