Jason Zhang

Experience

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  Fast Retailing

  Jun 2015 - Jun 2018

  Senior Production Management Specialist for Brand UNIQLO

  • Co-led a 4-person team to oversee a $1B+ contract manufacturer’s garment assembling process, ensuring compliance and improving manufacturing, processes and inventory management resulting in increased on-time delivery while reducing overall lead time by 5days. • Collaborated with merchandising and logistics teams to develop new contract manufacturers in Vietnam, mitigating critical capacity issues and implementing Uniqlo production standard in 3 months.• Collaborated with sewing expert team to solve 15+ major technical problems in production, reducing defective rates from 3% to under 0.3% for 16M+ garment units. • Trained 2 new hires from Uniqlo Management Candidate program, leading to certification earlier than average training length.• Co-managed launch of over 100 new core items and 50 specially designed items in women’s apparel.• Supervised production of over 10,000 sewers for launch of 2 strategic outerwear collections and implemented production standards for new techniques adopted in manufacturing process. • Improved overall efficiency of conventional data input process by 50% through VBA Macros script adopted departmentwide. Show less

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  Shanghai Angshen Management Consulting Co.

  Jul 2018 - Feb 2019

  Business Analyst

  • Performed analysis in camellia oil market to help a client build a market entry strategy for a new product, estimating 20% local market share in 2 years after launch.• Co-developed concept design and value proposition for new product launch of a global brand of tea jointly managed by two Fortune 500 firms.• Supported Branding Training Workshop for 3 clients, upselling contractual training services into full-time branding consulting projects.

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  De2V Brand Management & Trading

  Feb 2019 - Jun 2019

  Associate

  • Co-developed product concept redesign for leading food and beverage company in China, estimated to regain 2% market share in highly segmented market.• Created business and market communication plan and product concept for start-up clients as part of consulting team, reducing breakeven projection to 2 years.• Led a 2 person-team, optimizing a client’s category management system with VBA Macros, which reduced reporting labor and working hours, improving efficiency by 90%.

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  Midea America Corp

  Jun 2020 - Sept 2020

  Supply Chain Operation Intern

  • Re-created and implemented a new on-time reporting system for order management, improving reporting accuracy, and reducing manual workload by 80%.• Retrieved over $500K from chargeback through settling shortage claim disputes with major customers.• Conducted order cycle analysis on accumulated data from EDI system and created tools for exceptions alarm and tracking.

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  Apple

  Jun 2021 - now

  Material Program Manager