Lauren Ostrander

• Manage post production product movement to internal and third party locations required for product to become a finished good for distribution with a team of five in North America. • Streamline process improvement with changing business needs. • Build and foster strategic relationships with third parties. • Lead portfolio of projects within team members to drive savings and new supply chain strategies.

• Managed supply chain actions till the end of a project for the launch of a new facility. • Documented, rolled out, and executed contingency plans for temporary facility closures or unplanned events.

• Executed year over year forecast accuracy improvement of 4.2% to 68.9% for two business units. • Automated manual reports in Tableau for the Demand Capabilities team that saved 5 hours a week. • Developed a model and process for cleansing non-repetitive events from the demand plan that saved over $590K in waste dollars. • Lead initiative to improve demand signal on high supply chain loss items which resulted in improved forecast accuracy on test items over 12% and reduced bias by over 5%. • Project Manager for an internal software enhancement tool that integrates demand, sales, and marketing to have proactive conversations to better guide demand. Rolled out 20 new features.

• Forecast demand for 50+ retail customers. • Lead five retail Key Customer Collaboration meetings monthly. • Analyze forecast accuracy and bias to aid in outlining root causes impacting forecast. • Dissect year over year data and translate results to action items where cost savings can be identified. • Direct bi-weekly cross-functional meeting for new item launches to mitigate OSMI and find solutions to risk. • Demand Planning manager on reporting tool FusionOps; launched January 2018.

• Responsible for an $80 million dollar forecast plan for the Automotive After Market industry with over an 80% average forecast accuracy that drives purchasing and production planning. • Review forecast monthly and quarterly in SAP BI and Oracle Demantra to compare the historical demand and future business plan to maintain above 80% accuracy level and company standard. • Lead Manager for project to automate PO creation for low volume items. Outlined scope, identified criteria, executed technical piece, and created process to manage ongoing. Submitted financial analysis of project including future and current dollar and time savings. • Lead monthly S&OP meeting with 10 executives from sales, operations, and marketing. Develop an accurate business plan and react to sales trends quickly when a target is under-performing.

Manage and maximize revenue for two top 10 markets at Groupon through deal offering, price, market specific merchandised campaigns, driving units through promotions, and trends. Analyze two top ten markets month over month performance data and discover areas of growth or concern. Illustrate action items to the sales team to help grow month over month and year over year.

Examined market trends and key market levers to forecast the ideal mix of offers to be featured for two top 10 markets at Groupon and delivered a plan to a 15 person sales team to execute on. Structured roughly 60 deals weekly with sales reps to optimize revenue and display the most compelling offer for the consumer.

Built Salesforce.com and excel reports that analyzed the west regions performance and sales representatives account and lead stages.

Managed specialty store sales for an 18 state NE US territory for the Michael Stars accessory line.

Analyzed selling reports and trends in the market to focus sales direction and maximize future profits.