Patrick Hampton

Lead the America planning team with focus, transparency and humility while using LEAN to achieve business targets. Support development of the material team identifying and fostering talent and enabling their growth. Grow partnerships with suppliers both internal and external to make an impact on our ability to service customers. Ability to influence and communicate well with all levels of the organization, including senior leadership. Be a voice of collaboration with a focus on customers.

Key Accomplishments

· Responsible for growth and development of the Americas planning team with strong focus on continuous improvement, inclusion, and diversity

· Lead a team of material planner/buyer specialists (5 direct reports)

· Lead and drive standardization of processes across global teams.

· Transactional process support while driving change

Performed to KPI metrics of customer backorders, maintaining inventory targets, customer on-time delivery, and overall inventory reduction to align with customer and business priorities. Analyze and compile data to present to various levels of the organization; tailored communication to a specific audience to drive awareness to projects and issues. Maintaining cross-functional relationships with product managers, engineering, sourcing, and customer service teams to identify, root cause, solve, and prevent supply constraints and customer escalations.

Key Accomplishments

· Mentoring and training new team members

· Created standard operating procedure documentation to globalize processes

· Change agent focusing on continued improvement

· Allocation management of constrained products to ensure “fair share” between service and manufacturing

Supply, demand, capacity, and production planning for MillerCoors craft and innovation brand families. Collaborate and work efficiently with internal and external partners and stakeholders providing the business with analytical cost support to help drive decisions that are critical to the ongoing growth of the business. Added value creation by critically evaluating data gathered from multiple sources, conduct mathematical, statistical, and other analyses of data to drive and influence decision making. Manage ongoing reports; respond to ad-hoc requests for data from various departments to support our brand management. Actively and continuously solicit input, involvement, and support in all project activities. Co-lead or participated in cross divisional project teams tasked with implementation of various projects. Identify, develop, and communicate best practices across team to help minimize material and finished goods obsolescence.

Key Accomplishments

· Identify, elevate, and improve process gaps across teams

· Generated SOP documents for team functions

· Responsible for new hires on-boarding/ training lead

· Exceeded target for finished goods obsolescence coming in $260k favorable to budget

· Managed planning of Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy to lowest distributor out of stock rate in brand history

Central point of contact for all product supply, operational, and service-related issues for distributors. Management of distributor relationships to ensure that their product needs are satisfied through proactive inventory management and analysis. Management of forecast, inventory, shipment information, and demand analysis services for breweries and distributors. Making timely decisions to resolve distributor, field sales, and brewery issues.

Key Accomplishments

· Responsible for new hires on boarding/ training lead

· Lead analyst in the closure of Eden brewery - responsible for sourcing and finished goods mitigation

· Lead analyst – Project RAD – creating new Business Objects Universes