George Almeida

Experience

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  Canadian Tire

  Dec 2002 - now

  Lead a team of Supply Chain Planning Analysts providing awareness, context and guidance to internal and external partners of supply chain capacity objectives, requirements and events that span annual, seasonal and weekly time horizons. Create capacity plans and initiate their execution with the operational teams to balance the use of supply chain assets with the flow of goods to positively impact the financial bottom line and service levels. Apply continuous improvement methodologies to capacity planning processes and services to exceed stakeholder expectations and foster strong partnerships30% coaching & development, 25% strategic planning, 20% KTLO, 25% Optimization & Network Design Show less Lead a team of Supply Chain Analysts providing coaching/mentoring and development of a team atmosphere. Provide logistics related services to the Marketing division in order to enhance enterprise profitability. Develop and monitor the divisional inventory and service level plan, working with Logistics, Finance and Marketing Senior management. Foster relationship with Suppliers including communication of Logistics program. Mediate between Supply Chain Analyst, CBMs, Advertising and Suppliers. Handle inquiries from associate stores, suppliers and internal customers.40% coaching & development, 25% planning, 15% support the day to day operations, 20% reports Show less Lead a team of Business and Programmer analyst in the support and continuous improvement of Transportation systems. The team’s focus includes projects, day to day tactical support and operational requirements. The stakeholder group is not simply limited to Transportation but is far reaching to include OPC, corporate IT and other business units. Under my direct leadership the team has achieved initiatives such as LBT, implementation of FMIM, Purolator migration, development of a GHG transport model and the EVD development for the support of Major appliance payment process. The team supports all of the Transportation life blood applications. The team is accountable for the data management for many of the Transportation score cards. In 2011, the team managed more than 70 initiatives at any given time. 45% project management, 25% coaching & development, 10% support the day to day operations, 10% planning, 10% system Show less Build, lead and coached a team of supply chain business analysts and leads in the delivery of project objectives for multiple projects, including but not limited to the design and implementation of a physical material handling retrofit solution at EAP Vaughan, Calgary and Montreal to accommodate all SKUs, store shipments, inventory and through put volumes in support of the AI initiative. Project delivered on time and 30% better to budget. Project manager on the implementation of Voice picking in to AJ Billes.50% project management, 20% stakeholder communication, 30% coaching & developing Business Analysts Show less

  • Manager, Capacity Planning, Optimization & Analytics

    Feb 2015 - now

  • Divisional Logistics Manager (Automotive)

    Mar 2012 - Feb 2015

  • Manager, Transportation Development & Support

    Oct 2010 - Mar 2012

  • Manager, Supply Chain Major Projects

    Jul 2008 - Oct 2010

  • Warehouse Manager

    Apr 2004 - Jul 2008

  • Operations Team Lead

    Dec 2002 - Apr 2004