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Chris Braun is listed as Sr. Director Materials Procurement at Nike at Nike, based in Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at nike.com, phone signal with area code 646, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Chris Braun.
Chris Braun previously worked as Senior Director Global Materials Procurement at Nike and Director Drilling and Completions Procurement at Pioneer Natural Resources Company. Chris Braun holds Bsme, Mechanical Engineering from Southern Methodist University.
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Broad Procurement, R&D and Operations background focused on the Consumer Package Goods industry, Footwear, Apparel and Oil and Gas. Wide experience base covers food and beverage, directs and indirects including global responsibilities in capital and MRO procurement. Extended consumer goods focus through footwear and apparel across all major direct materials categories primarily from an Asian source base. Oil and gas experience focused on organizational development and helping an the company transition from a project based focus to more of a manufacturing model.Practical, data based approach with an understanding of the strengths of a 7 step procurement process, the benefits of a deep technical/ operational understanding and the importance of a sensible strategy.Extensive people/ team management history, comfortable in front of an audience and demonstrated capability to handle a wide variety of varying assignments from manufactured directs and agricultural goods to footwear and apparel directs categories. Experience in vertically integrated manufacturing models and contract manufacturing tier 1,2 & 3 structured supply chains.Email: Chris_Braun@msn.com
Listed skills include Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain, Cross Functional Team Leadership, Procurement, and 14 others.
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Beaverton, Or, Us
Leading Nike's Direct Materials Procurement team. Responsible for global strategy development and regional execution for textiles, leathers, chemicals, packaging and components. Seeking to drive value through Nike's suppliers and scale while building professional procurement capabilities with the team in Beaverton and Asia.
Irving, Texas, Us
Leading the team responsible for consumable and controllable capital good associated with drilling and completing oil and gas wells. Developing an overall strategy to help build a more effective procurement/ supply chain organization in advance of an upcoming Oracle/ Ariba ERP deployment project.Drove 25% reduction in casing and tubing costs, 10% improved vs. market through RFQ timing and negotiating strategy. Established an improved inventory and deployment model resulting in $10mm of annual savings potential.
Purchase, New York, Us
Responsible for optimizing PepsiCo multibillion dollar global capital and MRO spend across all global divisions, Beverage and Food. Skills gained in position include 7 step procurement, productivity initiation in white space territory, costs/ benefits of meaningful category organization and development.
Purchase, New York, Us
Responsible for Frito-Lay North America Agro Operations covering the potato seed to shelf raw material supply chain, potato R&D, grain handling facilities, in bound transportation and material replenishment.Skills gained in position include management of a continent wide dynamic harvest, storage and transportation system, importance of a well-managed in-bound transportation program, value of network modeling and use of historical statistical results to guide future expectations.
Purchase, New York, Us
(See VP Agro Operations Role above. Sr. Director role did not include In Bound transportation or R&D program)
Purchase, New York, Us
Responsible for procurement of Frito-Lay's seasoning and ingredient items. Focus was on Dairy based components for seasoning and other ingredient systems as well as vegetable procurement for packaged product line.Skills gained in position include cost and quality management of a dairy supply chain including deferred cost realization. Management, processing and negotiation of vegetable crops. Global execution and strategic management of a key ingredient used in driving a competitive advantage.
Purchase, New York, Us
Responsible for supply chain execution and contract negotiation for a billion dollar portfolio of contract manufacturing items ranging from re-packing operations to salty snack production and glass packaged/ retorted items.Skills gained in position include should cost modeling of operations for negotiation leverage, quality management of third party branded production, success of alternate manufacturing models/ streamlined businesses and cost management across a diverse manufacturing base.
Purchase, New York, Us
Flexible Packaging Program for PepsiCo Beverage Units (Pepsi, Gatorade, Tropicana) - Labels & Registered Shrink Wrap.Skills gained in position include supply chain value brought thru newly created command and organization of category data, capacity and value creation thru improved operations, negotiation for new capacity and potential via re-capitalization. Thorough understanding of flexible packaging converting and film manufacturing processes.
Frito-Lay North America R&D management covering flexible packaging, packaged dips and salsa product development and seasoning and flavor development.Skills gained in position include technical packaging management, hot fill and retort product and process development, ingredient and formulation science, product development using consumer feedback and measurement and technical management of a key ingredient driving competitive advantage.
Purchase, New York, Us
Various early career position including:Engineering - focused on rebuilding packaging rooms - 3 yearsField Operations - various roles focused on production supervision, cost and quality management - 4 yearsEngineering - focused on large scale capacity deployment, EPC development and "factory of the future" 1 yearProcurement - focused on material supply chain management - 2 yearsR&D - R&D semi works plant operations management. Product & process development - 2 years
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Chris Braun works for Nike.
Chris Braun is listed as Sr. Director Materials Procurement at Nike at Nike.
AeroLeads has found 1 work email signal at @nike.com for Chris Braun at Nike.
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Chris Braun is based in Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area, United States while working with Nike.
Chris Braun has worked for Nike, Pioneer Natural Resources Company, Pepsico, Frito-Lay North America, and Pepsico - Frito Lay.
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Chris Braun holds Bsme, Mechanical Engineering from Southern Methodist University.
Chris Braun is listed with skills including Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain, Cross Functional Team Leadership, Procurement, Product Development, Strategy, Management, and Strategic Sourcing.
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