Kate Warwick Siegele Email & Phone Number

Woodinville, Washington, US

Miami, FL, US

• Led end to end sourcing & supply chain for >$900M in direct spend categories: food, beverage, and hotel goods for Princess Cruises, Holland America, and Seabourn
• Realigned organization with business operations strategic objectives, developing functional expertise, creating ongoing cost innovation pipelines, and adding demand planning / inventory mgmt. team to enhance company’s.
• Collaborated with sister brands to build and expand global and regional operating models to leverage scale, optimize worldwide operations, share and benefit from best practices

Seattle, WA, US

• Led sourcing team managing all food components and produce across multiple commodities and categories, including end-to-end management of ingredient and produce supply chains across 50+ commodity categories, 100+.
• Led team/participated in $50M+ in COGS improvements (ex. raw commodity values) over a 4- year period. Led multi-tiered RFP process for $1.2B revenue-generating food platform. Developed should-cost models for impactful.
• Created value-added supplier partnerships to drive business results, met brand/ethical sourcing goals, increased supply base redundancy and diversity, and enabled margin targets at launch. Improved supply base.
• Active in Starbucks Armed Forces Network, including recruitment of 7 “Hiring Our Heroes” fellows (interns).

Seattle, WA, US

• Led sourcing of fruit, nut, and produce across all brands and channels. Accountable spend $125M+.
• Managed on-site and remote partners to effectively identify and reduce risk, implement sourcing programs, and optimize ingredient specifications for quality, consistency, and price across bakery, assembled, and juice.
• Integrated Evolution Fresh into Starbucks procurement team to ensure compliance with food safety guidelines, corporate policies, and contracting practices.

Seattle, WA, US

• Developed road map for strategy and implementation of directed-buy ingredient sourcing. Established fruit and produce sourcing strategies based on risks, ideal buying cycle, and price model for individual commodities..
• Worked with 5+ bakery companies across 8+ sites to implement directed-buy ingredient program.
• Accountable spend $45M+.

Seattle, WA, US

• Led multiple high dollar/high impact projects across the Global Supply Chain, including early launch process of Frappuccino in Mexico and China and implementation of High Service SKU program to improve service levels.
• Transitioned distribution providers across Canada, including supporting Vancouver Olympics.
• Charged with leading the cross-functional team to find $17M in savings across procurement organization.

US

• Managed relationships with key customer accounts, including Taco Bell and General Mills, improving plant status with external customers from Probationary/Marginal to Approved/ Satisfactory. Implemented SPC to improve.
• Directed external customer projects, including new products, product formulation, and process improvements. Developed costing for new projects (including make/buy analysis). Led plant implementation of Organic.
• Supervised Quality Assurance staff. Produced and delivered trainings for internal and retail employees.
• Served as Board Chair, Operations Division Diversity Advisory Board (1-Year Term: May 2005 – Jun 2006)

US

• Supervised swing shift in a high capacity dairy manufacturing plant with a total of 90 union employees. Improved shift efficiencies 36% while reducing headcount. Developed a world-class education program for plant.
• Expanded and revised plant HACCP program with QA Supervisor. Acted as a consulting resource for national FDA standardization training. Consulted for corporate Tech Services group on implementation of HACCP plans into.
• Managed quarter-million dollar ingredient and packaging inventory.

Mba, Business

Bs, Food Science