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Durham, Nc, Us

Newport News, Virginia, Us

Direct and develop international logistics - operations and trade compliance - for growing leader in wholesale plumbing and electrical supplies.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Supply Chain Collaboration. Redefined.

New York, Us

Accountable for a team of five direct reports and 60 indirect reports, leading transportation, vendor compliance, and wholesale customer compliance, coordinating complex logistics to ensure cost efficiency and seamless transportation of manufactured goods globally. Conducted strategic assessments and addressed underperformance and resolve issues in real time to mitigate business risk. Collaborated with stakeholders in retail to drive speed to sales floor, implementing delivery programs to reduce average allocate to delivery time by 2 days. Building on success of cost-neutral pilot, expanded accelerated store delivery to other stores where freight investment was required. - Spearheaded project to globalize inbound supply chain in order to streamline the vendor experience, standardize systems, processes, and partners, resulting in significant value improvement in origin logistic services.- Assessed vendor contracts to minimize complexity with three separate forwarders, reducing costs by partnering to create a profit share program, closing value gaps and enabling more services for the same costs as previously established.- Developed and implemented a hand carry solution in support of Runway “Ship and Show Program”, supporting crisp visibility and a lower cost solution.

New York, Us

Served as internal consultant, delivering leadership and expertise to EMEA Supply Chain team, developing transportation strategy for origin logistics supporting Made-In-Italy luxury goods, vendor management, and transportation.- Facilitated trust to obtain buy-in from stakeholders, providing business cases in support of new processes.- Hired and on-boarded a transportation executive and vendor operations manager to execute developed strategies in alignment with corporate and regional goals.

New York, Us

Directed international transportation sourcing and operations, including forwarding, ocean, air, dray, transload, and cartage processes. Introduced business intelligence to supply chain process, enabling data-driven strategic decision making. Implemented strategy of market alignment, service alignment, and grip and control to deliver cost per unit reduction, while driving improved lead times. Developed and implemented global delivery policy, shifting full freight accountability to late shipping vendors, eliminating chargeback administration efforts, closing deduction leaks, and generating exponential duty savings to add value across diverse areas concurrently.- Finalist for 2011 CSCMP Innovation award for implementing a dynamic air freight routing solution; invited to speak at multiple round tables for local supply chain events.- Transformed department and restructured team, incorporating effective systems and tools to build processes and drive efficiencies.- Identified opportunities to reduce costs and lead time, simultaneously increasing control of process and team accountability to streamline workflow and allocate resources most effectively. - Introduced corporation to multiple speeds of delivery, reducing costs from premium delivery on merchandise held in warehouse for multiple weeks prior to distribution to sales floor.

New York, Us

Implemented key strategic initiatives with a focus on timely collection of wholesale partner shipments, implementing wholesale collection timeliness metrics to evaluate performance against established objectives. - Achieved 100% of all quarterly wholesale shipping targets.- Developed and implemented wholesale forecasts to assist customer capacity planning and “Shipper of Choice” program to improve carrier engagement.

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Directed international supply chain process, including merchandise payable, customs compliance, physical flow, and landed cost accounting, reducing average lead time and lead time variability through the implementation of key performance indicators, delivering innovative strategies to reduce costs associated with shipping and efficiently address variances.

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Direct domestic transportation programs - driving inbound performance in support of rapid replenishment strategy as well as ensuring timely and cost effective delivery into network of retail locations in the USA and Canada.• Developed and launched Scheduled Store Delivery Program to reduce distribution center to store cycle time, improving delivery within one day from 5% to 50% within a year’s time.• Implemented results focused, rather than process-led, strategy, driving performance across all metrics.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

SENIOR MANAGER – LOGISTICS, SOURCING,& ACQUISITIONGENERAL MANAGER – IMPORT DISTRIBUTION CENTERSENIOR TRANSPORTATION MANAGER, MIDWESTSENIOR MANAGER – TRANSIT FACILITYSENIOR MANAGER – TRANSPORTATION OPERATIONS• Rapidly promoted through five sequential roles to role building strategic and tactical leadership of transportation service procurement for $2B spend, standardizing pricing, purchase, and analysis for benchmarking.• Oversaw 750K square foot distribution facility, with oversight of 125 associates, service to 220 stores, and $400M of shipping annually, improving on time delivery from 92.3% to 95.4%, as well as reducing shrink from .16% to .06%.• Led the only Import Distribution Center to qualify for Safety “Gold” finalist and recognized for “Best in Class” leader corporatewide for deployment of nighttime delivery program.

B.A., Political Science

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General