Greggory Nelson Email & Phone Number

United States

Remote

Continuation of Product Development & Management experience, plus additional responsibilities such as program strategy and implementation.

Boston, Massachusetts

Responsibilities• Continuation of Product Manager responsibilities (See below)• Responsible for all domestic sales and inventory• Initiate with factories new molds, product ideas and brands• Investigate new products and trends at international tradeshows • Market surveys to identify new product and trend opportunities• Demonstrate leadership in managing the Assistant Product Manager and logistics team• Develop brand strategies for key corporate programs and initiatives, i.e. Walmart, Amazon, Dollar stores, CVS, Grocery chains• Collaborate with regulatory and QA teams to ensure product quality• Understanding of: cGMP, FDA, HACCP, FSP, FSVP, UL, ETL, 510k, monograph• Publish monthly commodity tracker used company wide

Greater Boston Area

CategoriesFDA Regulated Products, Food & Consumables, OTC Drugs, Medical Devices, Cosmetics Key Accomplishments• Promoted to Program Manager• Initiated new business presence in Vietnam • Managed the increase in revenues for the domestic supply program from $4M to $12M• Created new factory matrix SOP with over 100+ factoriesResponsibilities• Sourced and vetted new suppliers and manufactures• Product research on FDA regulated items• Analyze, interpret, and apply government regulations to various product programs• Conduct sourcing and contracting with manufacturers in Asia and South America• Conceptualize and design artwork for products• Collaborate with testing laboratories to meet quality and legal standards• Manage inventory planning and forecasting • Managed online auctions, formal bids, RFQ’s and RFP’s

Framingham, Ma

• Communicate between vendors and cross-functional teams such as Merchandising and Design.• Identify products to be developed or sourced on a seasonal basis.• Emphasize and enforce quality assurance using ISO standards and regulatory compliance protocols.• Develop an array of products using manufacturing technologies such as injection molding, pad printing, heat transfer, coating, and an array of product finishes.• Analyze testing protocols and seek out areas to improve quality performance.• Closely monitor production schedules. • Evaluate vendor costing and maintain all costing references for best possible pricing.• Match particulars of product designs with manufacturing capabilities.• Deliver millions of dollars of products through a complex supply chain.• Used CAD to communicate with vendors.• Manage all products with ACMI certification.

Broomfield, Co

• Provides completion of tender (RFP) responses within deadlines.• Handle Bids/quotes that will increase company revenues, company compliance and SOX compliance by the Legal department and will satisfy customer needs.• Analyzes and measures metrics and data to provide accurate and useful information to management for decision making with a primary focus on revenue generation and leverage of customer and sales performance.• Identifies products to be offered and competitive pricing for strategic, national, local and vertical Market (healthcare, schools and government) bid opportunities.• Provides analytical support by interpreting customer information on complex bids.• Organize and lead conference call for appropriate personnel.• Provide Bid Profit & Loss analysis to management for review.

Shanghai City, China

• Closely worked with lawyers and other professionals in the legal department.• Reviewed and analyzed numerous documents providing legal advice for foreign companies.• Learned cultural differences and rudimentary laws and restrictions of doing business in China.• Observed several obstacles foreign companies face while doing international business.

Colorado

• Organized and prepared the County’s annual fixed asset review using Oracle.• Analyzed budgets and forecast documents. • Led other interns in accounting duties, such as, review G/L accounts and reconciliations.• Assembled and mailed the County’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report.

Colorado

• Created, negotiated, and secured contracts.• Analyzed consumer trends and sales forecasts. • Frequently analyzed inventory. • Learned customer service skills and affective sales techniques.• Worked with multiple suppliers to obtain cost effective inventory.• Coordinated shipment of vending machine and bulk inventory to final destinations.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration

Education record

Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering