Chuck Plummer Email & Phone Number

Dinuba, CA, US

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Global strategic sourcing network development and management. Identified and recruited suppliers for global produce sourcing network. Negotiated and signed contracts with suppliers and conducted annual business.
• Accountable for revenue growth in multiple commodity categories.
• Investigated, analyzed and reported to executive leadership on brand and category-specific business opportunities.
• Worked with suppliers, company sales regions, brand partners and customers worldwide to achieve growth and net revenue objectives in designated commodity categories and brands.
• Developed and managed brand-specific operational and risk mitigation strategies, requirements and performance analytics.
• Hired and managed company and third-party field staff to ensure product quality and customer satisfaction.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, US

• Licensed brand operations development, including supplier qualification, compliance and managment. Develop branded operational strategies, requirements and performance analytics.
• Strategic sourcing network development and managment. Identify and recruit strategic suppliers for global produce sourcing network. Review contracts and assure compliance with branded partner and corporate quality.
• Strategic consulting, including business and operational plan development. Commodity investment strategies and value-based supply chain development. Help identify and manage core principles.
• Consumer call center management. Manage toll-free consumer call hotline center. Upgraded complaint resolution management.
• Mitigate corporate risk through documented QA programs, supplier vetting and compliance.
• Review all company produce packaging designs for compliance with domestic and international legal requirements.

Washington, DC, US

• Planed and conducted complex economic analyses and research for specialty crops, with special emphasis on produce commodities and industrial uses of agricultural materials.
• Analyzed domestic and global demand and supply-side factors that affect market conditions (production, trade, prices, policy etc.) for U.S. specialty crops.
• Conducted applied research to support USDA's market analysis program and long-term commodity baseline projections. These assignments involved development and use of econometric models and general equilibrium analysis.
• Served as an authoritative economics advisor on all produce industries to outside agencies as needed, with particular focus on potatoes and sweet potatoes.
• Consulted the USDA Chief Economist, Risk Managment Agency and numerous other Federal Agencies regarding produce markets. Work ranged from enterprise-wide risk assesments of commodity industries and markets to review of.