Vice President, Supply Chain And Operations
Current▪ Provides strategic and hands-on leadership, corporate direction, fiscal responsibility and accountability for all service lines, retail, food service, and deli (100 SKUs, 300 customers of various sizes).▪ Accountable for progress toward business goals; review analysis of trends/opportunities with direct reports, and drive store improvement. Including but not limited to purchasing, inventory management, sales, marketing, branding and design, people, product development, and customer and client satisfaction.▪ Major accomplishments:► Owned and led a complete brand transition; health-conscious (humanely raised, antibiotic free, updated recipes, etc), transparent brand that highlights the history and traditions of the products.► Launched multiple consumer focused innovative product lines based on market data, i.e., line of meat and cheese snack trays featuring German and European meats, and Sliced Grab-and-go Deli.► Created and brokered partnerships that increased visibility for companies across different channels, i.e. Mikkeler NYC, Plymouth Artisan Cheese and The Truffleist.► Built and implemented multiple systems to increase operational efficiencies leading to sustainable revenue growth, i.e., ERP, CRM, Business Intelligence, payment processing, backend workflows.► Developed organization wide training and operations manuals at multiple locations for the training and development of employees.► Critical player in the sale of the previous factory and the transition to private label. Responsible for sourcing and setting up new private label production processes.
