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Longueuil, Quebec, Ca

Springdale, Ar, Us

Head of Supply Chain for Alternative Proteins business unit, leading design, and execution of focused “speed to market” network strategy across business groups to deliver aspirational 3-year innovation and growth imperatives, while leveraging full enterprise scale to enable optimized costs and efficiencies. Lead manufacturing and supply strategy and execution of targeted portfolio launch within rapidly emerging category, incorporating newly designed protein substrate technologies and capabilities deployed across multiple business units, requiring agile partnership across enterprise engineering, operations, planning, and procurement organizations. Responsible for ongoing operations across five production plants, planning and supply, technical services, and bottom-line performance to P&L.

Springdale, Ar, Us

Head of enterprise-wide continuous improvement. With a collaborative team of 12 direct reports and 115 professionals, lead the executive strategy development, design and deployment of the Tyson Productivity System (TPS), delivering transformational business performance improvement through adoption of a standard operating model across 67+ production facilities and enterprise-wide business operations, inclusive of digital capabilities and team interfacing tools across a diversified, multi-protein business, yielding 2-yr., $600 MM COGS reduction, accelerating capacity growth for innovation, while cultivating a learning and problem solving-centric culture for on-going development of 114,000+ team members towards best-in-industry business performance.

Springdale, Ar, Us

Lead overall design and execution of operational excellence strategy across 32 production plants within the Prepared Foods business unit. With 8 direct reports, and 32 plant level professionals, designed and executed the Prepared Division’s first standardized Operational Excellence Playbook along with the launch of Tyson’s first Six Sigma Black Belt (SSBB) Certification Program, the combination enabling the Prepared business to deliver back-to-back years 25% reduction in OSHA Recordables, and Productivity exceeding 15% COGS across 32 production facilities.

Springdale, Ar, Us

Lead strategic development and execution of Operations Lean Manufacturing Excellence within the Prepared Foods Division of Tyson Foods. Responsible for development and execution of Continuous Improvement strategies, and CI team performance across multiple Operations sites within the Prepared network of plants.

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for overall Oscar Mayer “Lunchables” business unit manufacturing and supply design, development, and execution in support of all new product launches. Appointed leader over Integrated Commercialization Process across Marketing, Research & Development, Consumer Insights, Engineering, Finance, and Manufacturing functions. Major accomplishments include launches of the Snacking Category 2015 breakthrough innovations including “P3 Clusters” and “P3 Chicken Dippers”, with both launching at 100% Customer Service and Distribution levels, while also serving as the Global Start-up Leader for the Oscar Mayer business unit.

Chicago, Il, Us

Overall plant leadership responsibility for Logistics, Material Planning and Distribution Operations. Lead staff of 13 exempt/non-exempt managers, and 65 hourly Associates, focused on superior execution in customer service across integrated supply chain. Key responsibilities include Cheese & Dairy business unit leader across the Integrated Lean 6 Sigma (IL6S) Supply Pillar, inventory level management, finite production scheduling effectiveness, and inbound/outbound Distribution Operations. Major accomplishments include 2-year average inventory reduction of 17% beyond AOP, and target-exceeding productivity gains (including $600 M savings from Kraft Foods’ initial Laser Guided Vehicle start-up for Distribution Operations).

Chicago, Il, Us

Business lead for Kraft’s largest network Process Cheese manufacturing operation, consisting of 120+ Associates and six production lines generating a combined, annualized output of over 180 MM lbs. of finished product. Key accomplishments over 2-year period include execution and start-up of Kraft’s first, transformational launch of “Hot Fill” technology for Kraft “Singles”, achieving 3 Sigma Certification, 70% reduction in product holds and consecutive years exceeding AOP productivity commitments.

Chicago, Il, Us

Business lead for Kraft’s “flagship” Cream Cheese manufacturing operation, consisting of 60+ Associates, three production lines with annualized output of over 55 MM lbs. of finished product. Introduced Kraft-Springfield’s first formal process for development of High-Performance Work Teams (HPWT) across operations. Key accomplishments include delivery of Advanced Process Control (APC) of finished product moisture ($120 M savings), consecutive years exceeding AOP productivity, and execution of strategic business network sourcing plan.

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for development and execution of continuous improvement (CI) strategy to ensure key business deliverables. Responsible for the realization of productivity, CI ideas and projects of the business unit, as well as resource alignment and technology advancements to meet project plans. Key accomplishments include MES system development delivering over $700 M in annualized productivity, development of “Leadership Competency” assessment tool to drive overall team leadership effectiveness, and recipient of Six Sigma Greenbelt certification for 2006 Weight Control Optimization project.

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Findlay, Ohio, Us