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Solon, Oh, Us

Solon, Ohio, United States

Leadership Initiatives: Coached and inspired a team of seven strategic buyers responsible for high-stakes negotiations and contracting, ensuring the reliable supply of ingredients and packaging across multiple Nestle factories in the U.S., Canada, and Nestle Purina Petcare. United the team managing $250M in spend under one unit, fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing for enhanced performance.Team Management: Managed team of 7 buyers to exceed targets by 175%, equating to 15% of annual spend, through driving more aggressive negotiation strategies. Led team to build a robust pipeline to exceed 12% of spend for the following fiscal year.Digital Transformation: Chosen to be part of the Nestle Best Technology Pillar with main objectives around digital transformation within procurement.Staff Development: Elevated a Buyer role within the team, enabling leadership growth and the development of advanced procurement skills to ensure long-term success.Process Improvement: Spearheaded a special project with cross-functional teams, identifying and resolving a master data issue in supply chain planning that affected 40% of the product line. Led recovery efforts, restoring full planning and sales potential through enhanced collaboration and SAP updates.Change Management: Acted as change manager for an enterprise-wide indirect procurement initiative, influencing senior leadership to address change impacts at individual levels, ensuring sustained and effective outcomes across the organization.

United States

Leadership Initiatives: Created and led the Category Operations team of ten, identifying and developing tactical procurement activities to support 40 Strategic Buyers & Specialists. Enabled team to focus on strategic activities, improving procurement efficiency and alignment.Tech Implementation: Spearheaded the digital transformation of procurement by leading data lake ingestion and developing two successful digital Proof of Concepts (POCs) with external vendors. This included the "Stress Test - Network Resiliency" tool, enabling the identification of hidden risks and empowering teams to implement continuity plans effectively.Cost Savings: Collaborated with 40 Buyers and Specialists to proactively secure strategic inventory materials, preventing 18 days of potential downtime and generating $4M in cost savings during a critical period of port-related uncertainty.Executive Engagement: Presented the Digital Twin and Stress Test engine to the Executive Leadership Team, showcasing innovative tools designed to enhance network resiliency and mitigate procurement risks.

Solon, Oh

Leadership Initiatives: Led Procurement Specialists supporting packaging categories for Nestlé USA and Health Science businesses while serving as the market expert for dairy, liaising with global buyers to ensure optimal supply chain. Managed suppliers and safeguarded stable supply to Nestle factories. Digital Transformation: Championed the integration of digital capabilities to enhance strategic procurement insights and decision-making for ingredients, packaging, and commodities teams. Strategic Partnerships: Collaborated with the predictive analytics team to drive procurement innovation, leveraging technology to forecast and mitigate potential risks, ensuring supply continuity and cost savings.Supplier Relationship Management: Strengthened partnerships with key global suppliers by implementing performance tracking (Vendor Evaluation Scorecard) and feedback systems, ensuring consistent supply chain reliability and improved supplier accountability.

Solon, Oh

Leadership Initiatives: Led a team of 14 Inventory Planning Analysts responsible for managing finished product inventory to optimize sales order fulfillment and minimize costs across ambient and chilled networks. Strategic Integration: Developed and executed the training and implementation plan to integrate the Starbucks team into the Nestle Inventory Planning and Supply Planning processes, ensuring smooth operations and alignment.Problem-Solving Leadership: Overcame a significant Q4 sales fulfillment challenge caused by distribution center appointment conflicts. Identified risks and opportunities, influencing all 4 companies to adopt new process changes, ensuring sales target achievement.Operational Excellence: Led on-site visits to factories to address loading inaccuracies, resulting in a 25% improvement in load accuracy and strengthened relationships between planners and operations teams, fostering better decision-making for future improvements.

Flagstaff, Arizona

Leadership Initiatives: Rebuilt the Materials Department following full turnover, restoring stability and ensuring seamless knowledge transfer and documentation processes. Led a team of three direct reports responsible for ordering raw ingredients for factory operations.Process Improvement: Organized and standardized procedures to ensure optimal stock levels of raw ingredients, minimizing waste and ensuring production efficiency. Managed the ordering of all grains to enhance departmental performance and support team development.Vendor Relations: Maintained strong relationships with suppliers, carriers, and internal stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and timely deliveries. Played a key role in reducing demurrage and freight costs through strategic relationship-building and collaboration.

Flagstaff, Arizona

Leadership Initiatives: Led the Operations Planning department with three direct reports, serving as a backup for the Operations Planning Manager. Managed critical production scheduling to ensure product availability and seamless service to customers.Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborated with Maintenance, Production, and Quality Assurance teams to optimize factory operations and ensure on-time product delivery, maintaining high service levels and inventory optimization.Process Improvement: Developed a sustainable tracking tool for Master Schedule Attainment (MSA), identifying key trends in lost opportunities. This tool continues to be used by the Operations Planning department to enhance performance.

Solon, Oh

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered with Sales, Marketing, and Finance teams to develop and align sales forecasts for the Pizza & Snacking division, utilizing market analysis and statistical modeling to create both operational and financial forecasts.Process Improvement: Co-led a project to extend the shippable shelf life of all pizza items, delivering $1M in cost savings in 2017 compared to 2016. The project was implemented in under three months, driving significant efficiency gains.Forecast Accuracy: Improved M-3 forecast accuracy on the CPK brand by 290 basis points and M-1 by 800 basis points, enhancing overall demand planning performance and reducing forecasting errors.

Solon, Oh

Cross-Functional Support: Provided analytical support to Key Account Managers, Sales Finance, and CSD teams for multiple NUSA brands, including Lean Cuisine, Stouffer’s, Nestle Toll House, Hot Pockets, DiGiorno, and more, to enhance promotion and forecasting.Market Analysis: Delivered account-specific and higher-level market analysis, sharing actionable insights that improved promotional outcomes and strategic decision-making across multiple key accounts.

Solon, Ohio

Leadership Initiatives: Led a team of 25 individuals on the production floor, ensuring equipment preparation aligned with micro and quality standards. Ensured compliance with sanitation requirements and maintained operational timeliness.Process Improvement: Reduced cleaning and changeover time between production runs by 50% within two months, increasing production line run time and efficiency.Cost Reduction Projects: Co-led several successful factory-wide projects, including SMED, GSTD, and 5S, aimed at reducing costs, streamlining processes, and improving operational efficiency.