Paul Dufault

About Paul Dufault

Highly analytical executive with 25+ years’ success generating bottom-line impact through enhancing organization capabilities that drive financial performance and service excellence. Instrumental in planning, coordinating, and directing execution of operational processes, including sales, customer service, inventory, distribution, transportation, and trade, while ensuring strict compliance with set standards. Accomplished leader; recognized for building, training, and mentoring top-performing teams for executing business critical tasks and accomplishing assigned goals. Articulate communicator with credible history of cultivating positive relationships with interdepartmental teams, management peers, vendors, and key stakeholders for realizing strategic business goals. Key Offerings: Systemic thinker who seamlessly bridges operational and financial management, understanding end-to-end business requirements and cross-functional integration. Conducts detailed analysis of business metrics across functions to identify improvements and trade-off opportunities. Identifies and accelerates strategic measures to strengthen performance with sustained multimillion-dollar operational results. Manages changes swiftly and effectively through building, developing and empowering future leaders. Core Competencies:• Demand & Supply Management• Distribution Management • Performance Management• Analytics & Reporting • Strategic Analysis & Planning• Financial & Operational Planning• Supply Chain & Logistics Management • Team Training & Leadership

Experience

1. Sr Dir Global Supply Chain - Gear

   Acushnet Company

   Sep 2015 — Present · Fairhaven, MA, US

   Plan, establish, and direct execution of day-to-day operational processes, including demand and financial planning, distribution management, global logistics, and vendor relationships. Develop and implement US & global forecast and production planning processes to standardize procurement initiatives, improve vendor capabilities and drive service and financial excellence. Negotiate contracts with key local and international suppliers/vendors to secure cost-effective terms.Key Achievements:• Developed and implemented key analytic tools that delivered actionable insights across Sales, Distribution, Operations, and Finance, driving both financial performance and service excellence.• Co-Led the successful transition of U.S. distribution operations from a failing third-party logistics provider, overseeing startup physical design and launch as part of the U.S. Operational Leadership team.• Created the Gear Custom Center of Excellence (COE), overseeing its physical design and operational processes to ensure consistent delivery of quality, service, and financial excellence.• Drove global service excellence by integrating a comprehensive suite of analytics platforms to manage the global S & OP, SRI and production planning agenda.• Reduced inventory investment window from over 7 months to 21 days by designing and implementing vendor direct ship processes, significantly improving quality, service, and cost metrics for custom products.• Developed and implemented global go-to-market strategies that established standardized delivery processes for all global product launches.

Education

• UNH Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics

  Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Marketing

  1981 — 1985

• UNH Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management

  1991 — 1993