Judith Simon Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Hired as President and within 90D asked to step in as Interim CEO. Senior executive responsible for leading strategy, driving organizational results, developing executive leaders, fostering culture and building a long-term infrastructure for scale. Led a global team of over 200 across 26 countries, reporting to the Board of Directors. Selected Accomplishments:- Led Verra through a year of crises for the organization and for the carbon market overall.- Built partnerships with over 100 CEOs and key leaders in the market, engaged with heads of state and government leadership and conducted extensive stakeholder research to define a new roadmap for the organization. Developed and led the New Era for Verra with defined commitments. - Created a new organizational design, bringing in new executive leadership and capabilities, including CCO, CTO, CFO and CHRO. - Directed the signature initiative of digitalization and technology enablement. Sponsored the delivery of a new portal for stakeholders, a project hub for visibility and tracking, including SLAs, and a path to move project submission away from legacy manual steps via digitized methodologies, templates and tools.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Responsible for renovation strategy, vendor management, program management, scheduling and field operations for Zillow Offers. Led team of over 700 across 25 markets. Selected Accomplishments:• Outperformed aggressive financial targets to improve economics in renovations, and delivered a 40% reduction year over year. • Scaled renovation operations by 12X within existing markets year over year. • Developed a new service offering for Zillow Offers customers, reducing the speed to offer by 14 days or 60%, driving significant gains in sales conversion.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Hired to build a bridge between innovation and execution, enabling organization nimbleness through massive growth. Responsible for driving change initiatives to drive adoption and deliver sustainable and scalable business performance in field operations. Worked collaboratively with the sales force, product, engineering and marketing to solve the right problems, the right way. Executive responsible to ensure a balanced portfolio of projects delivered to meet strategic goals. Led team of 35 with up to 12 direct reports reporting to President of Real Estate Operations with full P&L responsibilities. Selected Accomplishments:• Designed and integrated new standards for operational excellence, including new roles, tools, process and governance; streamlined internal process for innovation and elevating success rate of implementation of 70+ projects with minimal quality defects.• Introduced collaborative process to define national standards as ‘playbooks’, tackling key hindrance for growth and innovation; enabled new capabilities for automation, process improvement and training. • Created new capability and lens into drivers of COGS, allowing for achievement of year one target reduction of over $100/transaction per multiyear margin plan.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Promoted to lead strategy and development for reconditioning systems, operations talent management, and engineering. Oversaw production planning, staffing optimization, quality, process engineering, customer experience, field support, operations talent management, and skills training. Partnered with vice president of service operations and regional leaders to enable daily execution and integrate change initiatives to drive operational performance. Member of enterprise level cross-functional team designed to sponsor and manage change. Provided oversight and direction to team of 30 with 6 direct reports. Selected Accomplishments: *Drove over $40 Million in bottom line savings across 85 production facilities. *Delivered a 16% improvement in Quality KPI. *Demonstrated success in change management strategies and process excellence.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Hired to develop new approaches for executing initiatives to drive growth and innovation. Within 1 year, promoted to create and lead operational excellence team. Developed organizational structure, defined roles, established process, and delivered highly functioning department. Developed strategic plan to support company-wide process improvement initiative designed to maintain profitability in response to effects of economic downturn.Selected Accomplishments: • Led multi-year strategy for integration of Lean methodologies using Lean Six Sigma in multiple departments, resulting in over 100 continuous improvement (Kaizen) events and over $30M in bottom-line savings. • Devised tiered implementation system for store-level process improvement programs, improving adoption and sustainment levels.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Developed new approaches for implementing and executing initiatives within the Service Operations department. Ensured alignment of strategies, analytics and project prioritization among Service Operations leadership as well as Regional Field leaders.*Created innovative multi-year store level campaign to inspire field to achieve unpredented results.

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Asked to lead logistics, managing $70M in freight expense, including inbound freight collect, direct imports, outbound replenishment, and reverse logistics. Oversaw P&L responsibilities for 2 distribution centers. Led 200+ associates and managed third-party suppliers. Management sponsor for identifying TMS solution and software partner to provide shipment optimization capability and enterprise-wide visibility. Improved on-time performance of inbound freight by 18%, resulting in reduced safety stock inventory and improved service levels.

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Assistant Vice President, Supply Chain (2001-2002)Director, Inventory Planning and Replenishment (1999-2001)Manager, Corporate Inventory (1996-1999)Project Manager, Forecasting and DRP System (1994-1996)Manager, Category Inventory (1991-1994)Planner, Category Inventory (1990-1991)Oversaw demand forecasting, inventory planning and management, order management, vendor collaboration and compliance, training, and system development. Developed and delivered corporate objectives for inventory turns, service levels, and forecast accuracy. Led significant staff transition, including job restructuring and redesign, to develop centers of excellence for forecasting and inventory management.