Juli Avalos

• Drive operational alignment and precision forecasting, to ensure a diversified product portfolio, maximized marketplace inventory and elevated consumer experience
• Build multi-engine franchise targets ($2B +) aligned to CSR goals and drive consensus reviews with Product Merchandising, Finance and Regional functions
• Create global Demand & inventory metrics to track performance, initiate action plans as necessary to ensure a clean marketplace
• Cultivate a high performing team, develop talent, and create a culture rooted in collaboration
• Helped spearhead the one global marketplace transformation planning process across digital, physical, and wholesale allowing for enhanced consumer experience and sustainable/profitable growth for the future
• Co-Author global planning toolkit and roadmap in partnership with Global and GEO leadership that creates added value to business process
• Lead monthly S&OP meetings with cross functional leaders ensuring a healthy ecosystem where supply is aligned with consumer demand
• Accountable for Global E2E inventory levels and lead actions with the Geos to achieve targets and drive maximum EBIT
• Track and broadcast seasonal performance reducing volatility and improving milestone accuracy
• Establish supplier confidence through continuity of total plan from SKO to market delivery
• Achieved an increase of 30% accuracy at the colorway level starting in FY21, hit long range targets (80% +) at SKO for last 6 seasons
• Developed high-performing teams by providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for professional growth.

• Transform Global Demanding Planning team and strategy
• Re-Branded GDP as leaders and experts within forecasting
• Built out skillsets and tools in support of priorities
• Implement an Integrated Business Planning process cross functionally, through the development and deployment of a new Demand Planning tool (SAP/IBP/DP)
• Mature the consensus forecasting process with Merchandising, Product, Finance & Regional planning teams to increase transparency of information
• Host Planning Summit, inclusive of Global & Regional functions within Demand, Inventory, Supply, Business and Merchandise planning to identify gaps and eliminate areas of duplication
• Align on roadmap and enable action plan
• Creation of a Planning Architecture within Converse, allowing for aligned discussions cross-functionally!
• Launch functional KPI reporting, establish baseline and set targets for improvement
• Story tell data and publish performance
• Collaborate to increase SKU productivity and reduce tail
• Track demand plan accuracy and consumption of merchandising frameworks and financial targets
• Lead and coach through transition curve
• Ensure engagement and clarity of performance against strategic goals
• Achieved significant engagement survey improvements: Valued Perspectives: 100% (Up 50%), Clear link of work to Inc objectives: 100% (up 50%)
• Teamwork & Collaboration Encouraged: 100% (Up 50%) and most notably the entire 'Empowerment' section saw improvements in the range 30%-75%!

• Coach a team of 8, managers/planners
• Own allocation and planning of an 85M+ unit source base across product engines: footwear, apparel & accessories
• Managed capacity and required source base capabilities to achieve seasonal/yearly targets, maximizing capacity utilization and optimized productivity and margin across COO’s
• Collaborated via direct integration with Brand, Product, and Merchandising teams ensuring successful deliveries of express track products (Initiatives/Collaborations)
• Cross pollinated with Nike teams on Sub-Capacity planning ensuring maximized use of Nike portfolio options
• Speed: Utilize various methods for executing products on reduced lead times via staging of materials and localized sourcing
• Increased utilizing of SLT by adding factories to the program and identifying new product offerings
• Upon completion of role, over 20% of our manufacturing was through a speed track

Work as part of a team to develop a new process for Converse to evaluate and manage enterprise-based projects. Prioritize submissions and modify project requests as business strategies evolve. Ensure resource availably to service a project from initial scope, through transition management, and implementation.

· Guide and direct geographies safeguarding consistent process and operations globally, ensuring businesses align on one global process strategy as we convert markets.

· Collaborated with IT to create a tool for project submissions, so that review, scoring and approvals would not be manual.

· Completed Projected Management training with Nike team and conducted training sessions with internal colleagues who may require this skillset on projects.

· Created business requirements documents for new tool sets by facilitating process mapping and RACI discussions with multiple teams.

Drive the execution of planning process throughout 4 phases of implementation: research, planning, implementation, stabilization.

· Member of new ERP system implementation team for SAP roll out; 18 month commitment.

· Serve as subject matter expert and change agent for system build and deployment. Executed piloting, testing and training of planning staff during and after the implementation process.