Chip Wright Email & Phone Number

United States

Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Manage, in coordination with Executive Management, a responsive quotation process with a solid foundation of profitability assessments that will lead to incremental sales and achieve profit objectives.
• Build a robust process that tracks the response time of the initial inquiry, executes the quotation, and provides a feedback mechanism that can be linked to CRM tools to manage pipeline opportunities.
• Effectively manage cost estimation with the support of multiple organization functions and provide analysis to support key pricing decisions for day to day business as well as lead special projects to package large.
• Identify key areas of opportunity to improve quotation process efficiencies working with customer service, evaluate internal manufacturing process improvements and implement support tools to assist in providing.
• Be able to determine a market price requirement for MTO and custom product inquires by building database logic to understand the competitive environment. This will be critical to migrate away from cost plus pricing on.
• Develop a thorough understanding of customer’s requirements, clearly communicate the expectations, and align the Diamond Chain organization to exceed those expectations.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Manage and coordinate more than 2 million US dollars in new product development projects working closely with customers, suppliers, and internally with engineering, quality, and production.
• Evaluate and resolve technical feasibility, design optimization, and production issues
• Ensure that technical marketing literature and packaging match product specifications
• Monitor competitors, industry trends, and customer concerns
• Manage project budgets and prepare relevant financial analysis reports for upper management

United Kingdom

• P&L management of 6 million US dollars for European and Rest-Of-World business unit
• 40% increase in sales revenue since implementing growth strategy in the last 2 years
• Quantitative market research using conjoint analysis to align product with market strategy
• Product management of complex portfolio numbering thousands of active SKUs
• Management, reorganization, and restructuring the sales team to better meet market requirements
• Warehouse management implementing systematic improvements that increased turns and productivity

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Manage personnel in capital projects, manufacturing engineering, and processing standards
• Forecast, plan, and implement capital projects with an annual budget of about 3 million US dollars
• Implement cost reductions through improved manufacturing processes and lean manufacturing, while improving product quality
• Lead cross-functional team in management of strategic company-wide objective to increase outsourced product content from 5% to 25%

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Manage personnel in product design & development, cost estimating & quoting, metallurgical engineering, and product testing & analysis
• Formulate product objectives and goals to improve the company's competitive position
• Provide value analysis engineering and implement cost reductions through improved manufacturing processes, new materials, and changing product designs and specifications while improving product quality

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Manage numerous concurrent projects involving the research, design, coordination, and implementation of product improvements.
• Work directly with Marketing, QC, Manufacturing, and Engineering as well as with customers and vendors to identify and develop potential new products.
• Support Manufacturing by making production decisions related to product quality issues.

Adp, Accelerated Development Program

Bs, Mechanical Engineering Technology