Kathy Hase Email & Phone Number

Big Lake, Mn, Us

St Cloud, Minnesota, United States

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

• Drives strategic vision and implements appropriate measures to ensure optimal execution of sales and marketing strategies to customers.• Manages relationships with industry partners to ensure “customer of choice” profile.• Follows macro and micro economic trends and informs the organization of implications and potential choices for execution.• Leads category buying by sourcing quality materials at competitive prices to support plants production while ensuring on-time delivery.• Manages a spend category of $35.5M.• Aligns cross-functionally with internal partners to adequately support potential innovation or tools.• Creates category strategies to ensure team has access to best suppliers and industry capabilities to achieve goals.• Manages market metrics to inform internal partners of dynamics in the industry that would impact organizational effectiveness.• Keeps abreast of industry trends to include evolving demographics, industry changes, emerging potential supply chain risks, and consumer interests.• Develops and manages continuity of supply of raw materials.• Creates a regular process to utilize external expertise to analyze and assess key market dynamics, i.e., materials and underlying commodities. Form a perspective with the broader team and communicate regularly to key internal stakeholders.• Understands industry dynamics and work with ambiguity.• Ability to think strategically 3-5 years out.• Drives key metric implementation and management.• Supplier relationship management.• Leadership and development of procurement resources.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

• Strong understanding of industry dynamics and work with ambiguity.• Drives key metric implementation and management.• Successfully engages in supplier relationship management.• Active in Peer-to-Peer collaboration on goal setting.• Ensures adequate supplier capacity and customer service levels for raw materials to production facilities.• Ensures adequate service level of in-network raw materials and finished goods.• Maintains appropriate level of relationships, communication, and contract management with suppliers and copackers.• Drives strategy on evolving supplier’s capabilities based on customer demand, service, cost, and industry dynamics.• Manages key KPIs for controls such as on-time ship, cost, throughput, capacity, yield loss, labor, etc.• Develops and drives supplier relationship management to keep in good standing and be a “Customer of Choice”.• Develops and manages continuity of supply of raw materials and purchased goods.• Creates a regular process to utilize external expertise to analyze and assess key market dynamics, i.e., materials and underlying commodities. Forms a perspective with the broader team and communicates regularly to key internal stakeholders.• Works cross-functionally with Production, Planning, Transportation, Food Safety, Sales, Marketing, R&D, etc. to support our sales and marketing efforts.• Participates in cross functional continuous improvement initiatives that drive cost savings from end to end of the business.

Eden Prairie, Mn

• Strong leadership skills, ensuring that each new employee is fully aware of their job expectations, customizing their training on policies, best practices, and skills depending on their particular role within the facility. • Utilize strong communication skills to troubleshoot product and people issues on the warehouse floor, quickly resolving the issues before they become management problems. • Specially selected and successfully completed the Graci Leadership Solutions extended course on the Fundamentals of Supervision and Management. • Diligently monitor the inventory to ensure availability of product while avoiding excess stock and waste.• Leverage knowledge of the Lean methodology to conduct root cause analysis to create new processes to reduce waste in an ever-changing work environment. • Well versed in the Five Why’s technique, using it to explore the cause-and-effect relationships underlying problems; leverage these skills to continue to implement process improvement solutions across the facility.• Actively led a large-scale focused improvement project at the Eden Prairie site, collecting data on the root cause of issues creating waste and increasing costs; contributed to solutions that effectively addressed these issues.• Strong contributor to the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) team, a team designed to continuously ensure that there are no hazardous facility situations that would affect the quality of outgoing products. • Point person for the Annandale plant for headquarters, IT, and an off-site warehouse, readily available to timely respond to any questions and requests for documentation. • Seamlessly manage a variety of events, including a ribbon cutting ceremony and employee and holiday recognition events; actively coordinate all logistics, including advertising them to headquarters and the local news.

Minnesota, United States

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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Successfully supported a full-service accounting firm’s largest client industry (medical), in addition to providing direct support to individuals, businesses, and non-profit organizations.• Seamlessly worked with 100 internal Principals, Directors, Managers, Associates, and Interns, partnering with them to ensure that every single client is provided with service excellence at every touchpoint.• Provided concierge-level service to top accounts, ensuring that their every need was timely addressed in a quality manner; effective point person for these clients, including timely meeting all deliverables.• Acted as a liaison between internal colleagues and clients, including mailing initial client intake packages to clients and scanning highly sensitive information into the system so that the accounting process can begin.• Diligently managed all the shipping and receiving of documentation from clients, recognizing that time is of the essence. • Actively manage national firm activities, including seminars and events; coordinated the logistics for these events, including obtaining speakers, event locations, and ensuring all big and small details are accounted for.

Big Lake, Minnesota

• Effective point person for the District office, seamlessly adjusting workflow daily as urgent matters arose and priorities were adjusted.• Leveraged strong communication skills to act as liaison between students, parents, teachers, building personnel, and vendors, ensuring that all issues were timely addressed in a matter satisfactory to all parties. • Ensured that the District adhered to the MN Department of Education learning standards, continuously updating a repository of data so that educators could confirm that goals were being met within the designated timelines.• Reduced a 12-month process to 9 months, providing real-time data to the MN Department of Education so that they were aware of the success rate of the Big Lake School District. • Coordinated educator, professional learning, and team-building days, ensuring that all events ran smoothly.

Bachelor Of Music, Music Education

Activities and Societies: Concordia Choir, Concordia Symphony Orchestra, American Choral Directors Association, Concordia College.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Orchestra, Choir, Apollo Strings, Renaissance Singers, Moorhead Carolers, Theatre, Moorhead Youth Leadership.