John Herzig, Mba Email & Phone Number

St Louis, Missouri, United States

St. Louis City County, Missouri, United States

• Designed and implemented continuous improvement strategy for fabrication and supply chain based on LEAN Manufacturing and Six Sigma Techniques to drive accountability in accordance to company goals and objectives to increase shop efficiency to 100%• Coached managers on basic leadership and management techniques using a combination of data, metrics and communication and standard work instructions to promote best practices of change implementation resulting in sustained improvements and fostering the organization's continuous improvement culture• Collaborated on the design and implementation of company business processes to improve process flow, eliminate non -value added tasks, and reduce overhead.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Collaborated with major manufacturing consulting firm to create and execute plant turnaround strategy that involved organizational restructuring, deep data analysis, and hiring new management resulting in a $10MM improvement in costs• Owned plant cost improvement program which required identification and implementation of 30 lean processes and capital projects to reduce labor, transportation and raw material waste throughout manufacturing plant resulting in 2% reduction in operating costs each year.

Cincinnati Metropolitan Area

• Owned packaging design for existing and new product development on major foodservice line and worked with cross functional teams to test packaging on production lines, throughout distribution and at customer sites.• Assisted with integration of newly acquired manufacturing facility to organize their packaging and found synergies within existing packaging suppliers and materials.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

Responsible for designing new primary and secondary packaging including folding cartons, bottles & caps, PS labels, and shrink sleeve labels. Directly responsible for all packaging materials at the St. Louis based manufacturing plant dealing mainly in flexible pouches, SURP's, flow wrap film, folding cartons, retail-ready secondary packaging, and corrugated cases. Deal greatly with granular seed product, VFFS, HFFS machinery, also in case erection, carton erecting and bag insertion. Other responsibilities are: designing and choosing appropriate packaging for new and existing products produced at a domestically outsourced supplier. Had responsibility to manage the supplier-sourcing relationship for all products purchased from domestic supplier. Helped in finding cost reduction opportunities of purchase finished goods and negotiation of finished good cost. Worked closely with multiple vendors to develop multiple POP display programs including free standing corrugated displays, pallet displays, powerwings, permanent endcap displays and more. Required to find, select and manage packaging vendor relationships based on need, capabilities and cost. Worked across multiple cross functional teams including marketing, manufacturing, supply chain, graphics, sourcing and quality departments on a daily basis.Evaluated mainly on cost reduction implementation and efficiency improvements found in manufacturing processes and raw material cost reduction.

Student

Blacksburg

Led and executed package development for multiple new products including glass aquarium kits, various small and large aquarium lighting, cat litter boxes, companion animal liquid products, dog and cat shampoos, aquarium hoods, reptile environments, and spare parts in cross-functional teams consisting of marketing, quality assurance, manufacturing, sales, sourcing, and graphics personnel. Development of new packaging included working with corrugated boards, paperboard, bottles, jars, closures, films, labels, clam-shells and closure seals.

Golf Services, cart barn, caddy, member services

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Packaging Engineering

Activities and Societies: International Organization of Packaging ProfessionalsPackaging Engineering