Brandon David

Strategic Technology Leader in Demand Forecasting, Program Delivery & Grocery

Brandon has held various leadership and software implementation roles over his 25+ year career in retail and consulting with a significant portion focused on Enterprise Architecture, IT Operations, Program Management, Demand Forecasting, and Grocery. Brandon has been successful in delivering complex and high visibility projects through strategic analysis, measured technology development, and innovative project management. He is recognized for applying the voice of the business, utilizing deep technical skills, and building strong cross-functional teams. 

Experience

• Whole Foods Market – Senior Director of Transformation & Strategic Programs
  • Led the delivery of a cross-functional shrink and food waste reduction program of 65 projects using an iterative delivery model bringing together disparate Merchant and Operations teams to test, pilot and rapid-deploy process improvements and operational efficiencies on teams dealing with transformational change.
  • Architected a consolidated three-year strategy and roadmap detailing a total company plan to achieve cost-out opportunities of 170bps to sales, focused on labor and operations efficiencies across Merchandising, Supply Chain, Store Operations, Asset Protection, Store Development and Technology functions.
• Whole Foods Market – Senior Director of IT Operations, Cloud, and Enterprise Architecture
  • Accountable for the teams that provided IT operations support for AWS and 3rd party productivity software. Coordinated initiatives that remediated over 500K critical/high vulnerabilities. Implemented an IT cost reduction program that removed $65M of IT expenses.
  • Delivered innovative supply chain and inventory operations solutions playing a program management, product management and development lead role on a two-pizza team that improved in-stock and DC ordering for perishable products.
  • Coordinated the launch of a transformational supply chain and merchandising ERP program in partnership with a software vendor that resulted in delivering a five-year roadmap, a capability and feature map across 18 portfolios and a delivery team that grew into a multi-year program pre-Amazon acquisition.
• Accenture – Senior Manager / Consultant
  • Recognized as Accenture’s Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting expert, brought in to conduct business capability and technical assessments. Worked jointly with various IT stakeholders to plan technical architecture, integration, operations and support transitions. 
  • Supported the RFP and vendor analysis process for a micro-merchandising implementation. Shifted post selection to oversee the PMO and delivery functions of a multi-vendor forecasting and planning implementation.
  • Managed the work efforts for a multi-channel forecasting solution to integrate with pricing optimization, promotion management, replenishment, allocation, assortment, financial/item planning and CPFR solutions.