Regional Mode Lead - Warehouse & Terminal
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
• Charged with innovating and improving coordination of 37 business units logistic and supply chain processes involving multimodal transportation and storage - saving over $3.7 million with projects completed in 2011.• Expert negotiator experienced with multi-million dollar, negotiations with outside manufacturers and 3PL vendors with annual spend up of $20 million globally• Conceived and implemented a Strategic Supplier Relationship Management program that segmented and leveraged global spend in addition to effectively escalating and resolving service issues • Project Manager for streamlining end-to-end improvement in inbound and outbound commodity supply chains and seek out suppliers with innovative solutions and develop capabilities to meet business needs• Led cross-functional (Law, QA, Planning, Transportation, etc.) subject matter experts that identified barriers to success, established a plan to resolve and implement cost savings changes• Responsible for developing a Strategy for North American bulk storage and rail to truck and vessel to rail trans-loading of food, feed and non-food grade commodities for all Business Units. • Process honoring and experienced with enabling a culture of continuous improvement; including gathering, validating and communicating requirements, documenting processes/workflows, and developing specifications for production, systems or supply chain improvements• International travel to meet with internal business unit stakeholders to solicit their input in creation of a global supply chain strategy as well as maintain global supplier relationships.• Oversaw site selection, lease negotiations and instrumental in improving the decision-making process and implementation of a strategy for real estate purchases• Member of our internal diversity counsel; featured speaker at the 2010 awareness forum
