Aaron Keener Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Berlin, Berlin, DE

• Summary:Highly accomplished Director of Protein, Seafood & Dairy Procurement with a proven track record of leading high-performing teams to achieve strategic sourcing goals and significant cost savings. Managing.
• Strategic Leadership: Lead a team of Category Managers in developing and executing the overall procurement strategy for Protein, Seafood, and Dairy categories.
• Cost Optimization: Deliver impactful cost savings through strategic sourcing, negotiation, and implementation of efficient pricing models.
• Risk Management Expertise: Develop, implement, and oversee robust risk management strategies to mitigate potential disruptions and ensure supply chain resilience.
• Direct Procurement Champion: Drive the transition to direct procurement, achieving significant cost reductions for the organization.
• Team Development: Foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment, empowering Category Managers to excel.

Lewisville, TX, US

Paris, FR

• Summary:Highly accomplished Senior Director Dairy Procurement with 5+ years of experience driving strategic sourcing, cost optimization, and supply chain transformation at Danone NA. Managed a $1.5B COGS across.
• Delivered $130M+ in Cost Savings: Reduced spend for Organic fluid milk by $100M and Conventional fluid milk by $20M through strategic sourcing, renegotiation, and in-house network development.
• Streamlined Operations: Spearheaded a farm-to-plant freight optimization project, slashing costs by 50% ($60M to $30M). Led the in-house implementation of market risk management (MRM) tools and byproduct.
• Enhanced Visibility: Championed the adoption of supply chain software, enabling real-time tracking and data-driven decision making.
• Strategic Leadership: Provided initial leadership to the Yogurt BU, identified new suppliers, and spearheaded strategic negotiations.
• Rapid Promotions: Recognized for exceptional performance with successive promotions within 3 years.

Paris, FR

Responsible for development and implementation of strategic procurement plan for 3.5b pounds of milk (Organic, NGMO, and Conventional) and 270m pounds dairy commodities with a total spend of +$1.5b.

Paris, FR

Dallas, Texas, US

• I managed day-to-day procurement and operation of the dairy supply chain into 16 plants with ~$1B total spend for fluid milk, ~$500K for powders, and ~$200M for cream sales. I developed and implemented a robust.
• I developed a supplier strategy for cream sales, transitioning from a single source to multiple buyers, leveraging regional markets and increasing cream margins by $2M through aggressive supplier negotiations.
• I implemented the use of Dairy Supply Chain software into all Borden plants to produce integrated planning and scheduling.
• I spearheaded the use of business intelligence software (Tableau) in Procurement, Finance, Sales, and Marketing to better monitor and manage the Dairy P&L.
• I centralized the scheduling function into corporate, leveraging relationships to convince plants to transfer the function.
• I designed and implemented dairy analytics BI workbooks used in daily operations of scheduling and planning milk receipts across the entire network.

Lewisville, TX, US

• Dairy.com, Software and consulting services for CPG's specializing is Dairy Supply Chain/Procurement. I directed team of traders, support personnel, and producer payroll staff comprising operations for dairy training.
• I managed the full lifecycle of the dairy transportation project, centralizing data procurement and improving the bottom line of Dean Foods fluid transportation spend by $10M through benchmarking and renegotiation of.
• I championed the modification of our pricing model to SaaS via subscription vs. per use by utilizing data to show a trend of diminished revenue and the opportunity for increased revenue and user engagement.
• I streamlined hauler costs analysis, realizing 70% in time efficiencies for a complex series of analyses of input cost of sourcing milk directly from farms, benchmarking actual data vs. real cost.
• I reduced overtime by 30% and increased productivity of the support team by 20%, producing significant savings in less than six months by sharing and monitoring expectations and providing the staff with improved tools.

Paris, Île-de-France, FR

Successfully managed all processes; including but not limited to inside sales, recruiting, training, quality assurance, and information technology for two 48+ seat start-up call centers; as the “on-site” CEO.