Rafi Khan
Demand Category Planning Manager (Americas)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRafi Khan is a Demand Category Planning Manager based in Ottawa with 11 years of supply chain experience spanning demand planning, S&OP, sourcing and logistics. He has advanced from distribution roles to senior planning positions at Canadian Tire and Cardinal Health, and now leads Americas category planning at Newell Brands, blending tactical forecasting with strategic replenishment. Trained in Business Process Management, he consistently drives process improvement and measurable inventory optimization across complex retail and healthcare portfolios. Known for pragmatic project management, he balances cross-functional stakeholder alignment with hands-on analytics to shorten lead times and reduce stockouts. Although active on GitHub as a software-minded engineer, his career focus uniquely combines operational rigor with an engineer’s mindset for inventing better planning tools. This mix of domain depth and curiosity enables him to translate data into scalable supply chain decisions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate, Business Process Management, Graduate Certificate, Business Process Management at Sheridan CollegeBachelor of Arts (BA), Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Political Science at York University
Github Skills (200)
epub10
ebook-reader10
vim10
automation10
ubuntu-touch10
operating-system10
api10
infrared10
reader10
python10
code-completion10
code-analysis10
arduino-library10
kobo10
trend10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
z3t0/zwm
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
macOS window manager running on Hammerspoon
Contributions:48 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
hammerspoonmacoswindow-manager
Arduino-IRremote/Arduino-IRremote
Mar 2015 - Feb 2021
Infrared remote library for Arduino: send and receive infrared signals with multiple protocols
Contributions:6 releases, 185 commits, 125 PRs in 6 years
arduinoinfraredarduino-libraryremote
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