Jay Slagle Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, MN, US

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Leadership position responsible for the development and implementation of long term packaging strategic initiatives intended to drive top and bottom line growth for domestic and international cereal businesses. Leading packaging development teams in Minneapolis, Switzerland and Australia to bring packaging innovation, margin enhancement and improved.

Minneapolis, MN

• Leadership position responsible for managing the packaging research and development team charged with developing packaging solutions to drive the annual business plan for General Mills largest business unit
• Led the technical team responsible for implementing the most comprehensive package resize in General Mills history delivering record savings, improved margins and competitive price value package offerings
• Led the development team responsible for commercializing new packaging equipment technologies intended to reduce costs and improve efficiencies
• Optimized the packaging team structure transforming it into a highly cohesive, extremely collaborative and aligned organization.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Leadership position responsible for managing an supply chain team charged with executing promotional packaging for the Big G cereal division.
• Developed organizational proposal, recruited talent and created new organization intended to improve overall efficiencies and reduce the difficulties and stress associated with these operationally disruptive.
• Provided technical leadership in support of 30-35 programs annually delivering millions of promotional packages and products to consumers and customers domestically and internationally.
• Led the development team responsible for creating new equipment technologies which reduced costs by more than 50% and provided a competitive advantage to General Mills
• Drove quality improvement initiatives and reduced consumer complaints associated with the activity by more than 80%