Elisa Elkind Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, United States

Denver, Colorado, United States

PEAK Achievement winner, 2020 (Awarded to 250 elite employees each year for excellent performance. Winners receive a VIP trip to Hawaii with a 1+)

Greater Denver Area

Denver, Co

Built out and led Supply Chain Systems & Compliance Team; established vision and goals, and trained/developed direct reports Oversaw, optimized, and implemented supply chain systems/applications and related programs with team to meet evolving needs of Procurement, Distribution, Quality Assurance, IT, and OperationsManaged the “Food Quality and Credit System” project, which included mobile and desktop product ownership; results surpassed success criteria with >60% decrease in incomplete restaurant-submitted quality reports and 70% decrease in time to approve creditDirected the conceptualization and development of an integrated Supplier Scorecard to streamline and standardize benchmarking across categories and to facilitate faster, data-driven decision makingIdentified and prioritized dozens of projects to improve data accuracy for newly implementedtraceability system; achieved goal of ~50% improvement via initial analysis and projects

Greater Denver Area

Designed and led implementation of new GS1-compliant traceability system across dozens of suppliers and distribution centers to significantly reduce investigation time for food safety/quality incidents; also supported implementation in restaurants via mobile app product managementOwned product strategy, backlog, and set-up for new supplier compliance portal; reduced supplier onboarding time by >50% and improved document and master data integrity and security

Orlando, Florida

Interned with the Distribution and Logistics team for 3 months. Engaged with Darden's food and beverage, smallwares, and capital equipment supply chainsBuilt 2 models and related processes that expose how varying commodity prices (of wheat, soybean oil etc.) affect enterprise COGS, after developing a solid understanding of the value chain structure and proceduresReduced average weekly food costs by 7% for a Hawaii restaurant through distribution scenario analysis and persuasive communication with restaurant operators

Berkeley, Ca

Streamlined organic and kosher certification processes for 125+ established and new products, reducing annual recertification time by 3 monthsEvaluated 100+ primary and secondary vendors, and methodized procurement to enable true cost comparison during purchasing. Also collaborated with accountant on a formal, finished goods cost analysis for the top 20 products to inform new pricingDoubled output of 3 key chocolate products to meet growing demand by collaborating with production crew and chocolatier to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in productionImplemented and ran the Fulfilled by Amazon sales channel, yielding a 200%+ increase in Amazon revenue without cannibalizing sales via other channelsCreated standard operating procedures for the administrative, sales, and customer service responsibilities to ensure 100% knowledge transfer to new employeesPreviously:Account and Special Projects Manager (May 2011-May 2012)

Santa Monica, Ca

Sherman Oaks, Ca

Bachelor'S Degree (Ba)

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Graduate Certificate

Bachelor'S Degree (Study Abroad)