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White Bear Lake, Minnesota, United States

Bayport, Minnesota, United States

Bayport, Mn

•Responsible for the performance of the assigned area in terms of Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost.•Support the Supply Chain Manager in driving continuous improvement. •Supervise and coordinate the development and communication of materials flow, information flow and inventory management for the plant •Lead, direct, and participate in continuous improvement activities to accomplish plant business goals and objectives in terms of safety, quality, customer service, cost and staff development.•Provide linkage to support resources such as Materials Management, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering and Configuration Services, IT, Distribution, Transportation, and Consolidation Centers.•Coach, train, support, and develop a team of flexible, multi-skilled staff in accordance with Lean principles, values, employee covenant, and strategic direction. •Design and implement cost improvement business models across the supply chain that achieves strategic process improvements. •Lead defined, medium-sized projects•Analyze and report performance to plan, recommend corrective action.•Prepare forecast/budget production levels.•Support corporate sourcing objectives and Supplier Management. Understand supplier capacity/capabilities constraints •Requires ability to define problems, collect data, analyze data, offer solutions, and implement to achieve the desired results.•Develop and implement effective processes for new product offerings/enhancements and ramp-up/ramp-down plans for material changes. •Facilitate teams and meetings •Align project or process improvement goals with functional business objectives. •Promote safety and ensure a safe work environment and safe employee work habits.•Develop a high performance work team by providing appropriate training, tools, guidance, coaching and feedback. Support and involve employees in identifying and permanently removing obstacles to performance excellence; provide & support developmental opportunities for staff.

Bayport, Mn

Develop, improve, and implement sustainable value stream architectures that deliver the right amount of capacity at the lowest total cost across supply chain processes. Supply chain processes may include some or all of these areas: quoting, order entry, planning, forecasting, receiving, inventory management, external and internal supplier management, warehousing, finished goods scheduling, component scheduling, component sequencing, finished goods handling, logistics, and transportation. Focus on the material and information flows for new product introductions and/or strategic cost reduction efforts.Lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams using project management tools and continuous improvement techniques in a lean manufacturing environment.Train end users on processes and ensure successful hand-off .Represent the supply chain on cross-functional business and project teams Align project or process improvement goals with functional business objectives.Effectively communicate project status and organizational impacts to stakeholders.

Provide consultation/analysis for Executive Management to drive profitable business decisions and determine market opportunities.Generate, reconcile, and analyze production reports to find current trends, opportunities and gaps.Improved the weekly corporate forecast accuracy from 94% to 97% from developing better processes.Trained product line managers to pull their own data, making our Marketing team much more productive.Developed new processes to reduce report production time, and increase accuracy.Developed and managed customer satisfaction survey process.Manage and provide all Sales reporting for the organizationWas a key contributor on new product line launches, providing analysis and resolving data issues with IT.Provided analysis to map market segments to drive strategic direction.Single handedly developed, lead, and delivered daily order and invoice reporting to executive management. Designed, developed, and lead pivot table training for our sales force. Go to person for special Market Analysis

Managed corporate conference rooms and processesProvided Tier II support for more than 4,000 end usersDesignated to provide support for our Executive teamDesigned and created end user manuals and documentationProvided support for our remote sales force.

Provided phone support for over 7,000 users.Sustained a satisfaction rating over 98%First call resolution rate of 92%Designed and created end user manuals and documentationProvided training for our customers.

B.S., Business Management Sales And Marketing

Bs, Management