Leon Powell Email & Phone Number

Southaven MS

• Led overall U.S. distribution facilities across Mississippi, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, including raw materials warehouse, logistics, and transportation performance at Terumo.
• Managed distribution and logistics (L&D) activities for the organization, including safety, regulatory compliance, inbound, inventory, and order fulfillment activities and functions in a pick, pack, and ship.
• Provided transportation leadership for the organization, managing contract negotiations for L&D operations.
• Managed customer, vendor, and supplier relationships, performance, projects, and organizational and team development.

Reno, NV & Grapevine, Texas

• Management oversight for overall distribution and logistics operations for the western region.
• Managed the inbound logistics, receipt, put away, order fulfillment, processing, and shipment of medical and dental products in an automated pick, pack, and ship environment.
• Accountable for inventory management, purchasing activities, overall distribution operations, and performance planning and execution.
• Oversaw P&L, regulatory compliance, customer relations, supplier relations, personnel recruitment, staffing and development, material handling systems, equipment and facility infrastructure readiness, and sustainment.

UOP Online

Taught classes on supply chain management, managing quality in the supply chain, management principles, and concepts to undergraduate-level students in an online learning environment.

• Senior leader with management oversight responsibility for establishing operating policy, strategy, and contingency planning for a pick, pack, ship, kitting, and light assembly multi-site distribution center operations.

U.S. ARMY ACTIVE DUTY, U.S. ARMY RESERVES. Promoted through the officer ranks from Junior officer to Field grade officer rank. Key roles, activities and duties include leadership and management responsibility and accountability, people development, military logistics and supply management, operations planning and execution, and project management in both.

Mba, Master Of Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Honor graduate.Joined the UOP Online faculty team in 2009 as an Adjunct Professor. Classes taught include.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Business Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Pan Hellenic Greek Council, Army ROTC